GEORGETOWN, DE – In February 2015, the Delaware State Police and the Delaware Department of Justice began planning an operation designed to proactively impact violent crime in Sussex and Kent Counties. This operation targeted subjects participating in an organized criminal enterprise. Members of this network were active participants in the crimes of racketeering, murder, home invasion robbery, illegal weapons possession, and the distribution of illegal narcotics.
Iowa: Charities Claiming to Help Veterans Barred from Iowa
(DES MOINES, Iowa) Two charities mailing sweepstakes-based solicitations to Iowans have been barred from any further soliciting in the state, under agreements with Attorney General Tom Miller. Veterans Relief Network, based in Schererville, Indiana, and Healing Heroes Network, out of Palm Harbor, Florida, were both investigated by Miller’s Consumer Protection Division for consumer fraud after the Division learned that Iowans were receiving the mailings.
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Nebraska: Attorney General Peterson Announces Settlement with USARS
LINCOLN – Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson announced a settlement today with United States Amateur Confederation of Rolling Skating (USARS), a Nebraska nonprofit corporation.
Michigan: Texas-Based Fundraiser to Pay $75,000 and Will Correct Michigan Humane Society Clothing Donation Bins
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced a settlement with Texas-based clothing donation bin operator ATRS. The settlement resolves the Attorney General’s lawsuit alleging that ATRS’s 251 clothing bins operated for the Michigan Humane Society were deceptively labeled.
FTC: Settlement with Corporations for Character resolves long-running litigation focused on Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) violations
Three Utah-based firms and their owner, which a federal court jury in 2016 found deceptively and illegally called more than 117 million consumers pitching their movies, have agreed to a proposed court order settling the Federal Trade Commission’s charges against them. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) secured the defendants’ agreement to the proposed order imposing civil penalties and prohibiting telemarketing abuses, and filed it with the court on the behalf of the FTC.
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