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Company: Mandatory Poster Agency, Inc.
Penalty: $400,500
Year: 2017
Date: July 27, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Mandatory Poster Agency, Inc. agreed to pay $175,500 in restitution, $125,000 in civil penalties and $100,000 in fees and costs in settlement of allegations of sending nearly 65,000 deceptive solicitations to Arizona businesses instructing that each business pay $125 to fulfill its Annual Minutes Requirement. The Court found that the official-looking mailer gave the deceptive impression that it was sent by a government agency and that responding and paying $125 was required.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Arizona Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Arizona
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