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Company: Centurion Filing Services, LLC
Penalty: $3,520,521
Year: 2024
Date: August 13, 2024
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Centurion Filing Services agreed to pay over $3.5 million to resolve allegations it mailed Wisconsin businesses tens of thousands of mailers that appeared to be from a government office and asked recipients to purchase a Certificate of Status at a cost, which is not required by state law. The Court's judgment requires the Defendants to send refund notices to every Wisconsin business that placed an order with them and refund each business $72.50 per order. In total, the Defendants are required to pay over $626,000 in refunds. The Court also ordered the Defendants to pay more than $2.8 million in monetary penalties and costs.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Wisconsin Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Wisconsin
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