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Company: Handy Technologies
Penalty: $150,000
Year: 2017
Date: June 28, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Handy Technologies agreed to pay $150,000 and restitution to consumers in settlement of allegations it misled consumers about the background checks it performed on cleaners, who were given unsupervised access to homes, and automatically enrolled consumers without their knowledge into cleaning plans that included recurring charges for automatically scheduled follow-up cleanings.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: District of Columbia Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: District of Columbia
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