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Company: Planned Furniture Promotions
Penalty: $255,000
Year: 2001
Date: December 27, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: false advertising
Violation Description: Dean's Home Furniture, Planned Furniture Promotions, and their owners, agreed to pay $230,000 restitution (by PFP), $15,000 costs (by Dean's) and a $25,000 civil penalty (by PFP) in settlement of allegations they illegally ran a going-out-of-business sale that deceived customers into thinking that furniture was dramatically discounted.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Massachusetts Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Massachusetts
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