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Company: E.M.A. Nationwide
Penalty: $5,706,135
Year: 2014
Date: September 24, 2014
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a decision upholding a district court ruling that several defendants based in the United States and Canada deceived consumers through a telemarketing scheme designed to sell them phony mortgage assistance and debt relief programs. The district court?s order permanently barred the defendants from working in the debt relief or mortgage assistance industries, and enters judgment, jointly and severally, of $5,706,135.48 to be used for refunds to the injured consumers.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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