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Company: National Maintenance Supply, Inc.
Penalty: $80,000
Year: 2000
Date: February 29, 2000
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: National Maintenance Supply, Inc. agreed to pay $80,000 in settlement of alleged violations of the Federal Trade Commission's 1995 Telemarketing Sales Rule and the state's Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act through a scheme targeting out-of-state businesses by posing as the target's regular office supply vendor, by sending cleaning products to a business followed by invoices. Often the business would pay the invoice without realizing it was paying for products that were never ordered. The settlement was also announced by the FTC; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Illinois Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Illinois
Facility City: Orlando Park
Source of Data: (click here)
Notes: Unspecified proportion of settlement was paid to the FTC.
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.