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Company: Hy Cite Corporation
Penalty: $1,350,000
Year: 2010
Date: January 13, 2010
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Hy Cite Corporation,seller of cookware and water filters under the name of Royal Prestige, agreed to pay $1.35 million for victim restitution and penalties and drastically reform how it does business to resolve allegations that it lied to consumers to gete them to pay several thousand dollars each for cookware and water filters.
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Los Angeles (CA) County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: California
Source of Data: National Corporation Pays $1.35 Million and Drastically Reforms Its Business to Resolve State Charges That it Used Fraudulent and Discriminatory Practices, Targeted News Service, January 13, 2010 (via Nexis).
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