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Company: Verizon Wireless
Current Parent Company: Verizon Communications
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $16,000,000
Year: 2015
Date: May 12, 2015
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: telecommunications violation
Violation Description: Verizon Wireless agreed to pay $16 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it billed customers millions of dollars in unauthorized third-party premium text messaging services, a practice called cramming. This was part of a larger $90 million settlement involving the Federal Communications Commission; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.