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Company: Consumer Grants USA, Inc. et al.
Penalty: $1,000,000
Year: 2006
Date: March 10, 2006
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Consumer Grants USA, Freedom Grants, and their owners, were ordered to pay $1 million in civil penalties, restitution, and fees and costs in a judgment from a lawsuit alleging they used deceptive telemarketing to scam money from consumers by posing as organizations offering government grants.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Massachusetts Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Massachusetts
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