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Company: Columbia Utilities, LLC and Columbia Utilities Power, LLC
Penalty: $557,856
Year: 2022
Date: March 25, 2022
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Columbia Utilities was ordered to pay $500,000 civil penalty and $57,856 restitution in judgment of charges it entered into hundreds of gas and electric contracts through prohibited door-to-door marketing to convince consumers across the state to use its services. A previous settlement with Columbia Utilities and the Office of the Attorney General prohibited the company from conducting door-to-door marketing.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New York Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New York
Facility City: New York
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