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Alleged Phone Scammers to Pay $18.8 MM Fine: FTC

Alleged Phone Scammers to Pay $18.8 MM Fine: FTC

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Chief Marketer Staff

The alleged operators of a New Jersey-based telemarketing scheme will pay a record $18.8 million and leave the charitable donation business to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated an agency order by misleading consumers to believe that they were donating directly to legitimate charities serving police, firefighters, and veterans, when in fact only a small slice of the donations actually went to these charities, according to the FTC.

Named as defendants were Civic Development Group, LLC; CDG Management LLC; and owners Scott Pasch and David Keezer, according to the FTC.

According to the Commission, Civic Development Group

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