August 24, 2015
This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) obtained final judgments against various defendants involved in an elaborate telemarketing operation which the FTC claimed swindled victims out of more than $7 million. The judgments, obtained in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, imposed monetary sanctions of $7.3 million, as well as bans on selling business or work-at-home opportunities and other misconduct alleged by the FTC to have violated the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule, respectively.
What was the scam that drew the FTC’s ire?