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Company: Legacy Learning Systems Inc.
Penalty: $250,000
Year: 2011
Date: June 10, 2011
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The Federal Trade Commission finalized the Order settling charges that Legacy Learning Systems Inc. and its owner, Lester Gabriel Smith, deceptively advertised the Learn and Master Guitar program through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers without clearly disclosing they were paid substantial commissions for every sale they generated. Under the final order, Smith and Legacy Learning were ordered to pay $250,000, and maintain a system to review and monitor their affiliate marketers' representations and disclosures.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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