{"id":6138,"date":"2023-10-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:27:23","slug":"court-rules-in-ftcs-favor-in-case-against-telemarketing-company-that-bombarded-job-seekers-with-millions-of-illegal-unsolicited-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/court-rules-in-ftcs-favor-in-case-against-telemarketing-company-that-bombarded-job-seekers-with-millions-of-illegal-unsolicited-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules in FTC\u2019s Favor in Case Against Telemarketing Company that Bombarded Job Seekers with Millions of Illegal, Unsolicited Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge in Illinois has ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>in a case the FTC has been litigating since 2019 against a telemarketing company and its owners<\/a>, finding they made millions of illegal, unsolicited calls to consumers on the Do Not Call Registry.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The court found that corporate defendants Day Pacer, LLC and Edutrek, L.L.C. purchased consumers\u2019 contact information primarily from websites claiming to help people find jobs, and instead illegally called those consumers to market unsolicited vocational or post-secondary education services. The court also found that the defendants assisted and facilitated other telemarketing companies by paying them to make approximately 40 million calls to consumers on the Do Not Call Registry. Additionally, the court found that individual defendants Raymond Fitzgerald, Ian Fitzgerald, and David Cumming directly participated in or had authority to control the corporations\u2019 deceptive acts or practices, and were therefore also liable.<\/p>\n

The court found that the defendants knowingly violated the Telemarketing Sales Rule, citing evidence that the defendants had ignored repeated complaints from consumers and warnings from business partners.<\/p>\n

In granting summary judgment, the court found that the FTC was entitled to both injunctive relief and civil penalties. The court has scheduled a hearing to determine the amount of the civil penalty award and the scope of injunctive relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A federal judge in Illinois has ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission\u00a0\u00a0in a case the FTC has been litigating since 2019 against a telemarketing company and its owners, finding they made millions of illegal, unsolicited calls to consumers on the Do Not Call Registry.\u00a0 The court found that corporate defendants Day Pacer, LLC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-1B0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6945,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/court-finalizes-injunction-and-monetary-judgment-against-illegal-telemarketing-operation-and-its-owners\/","url_meta":{"origin":6138,"position":0},"title":"Court Finalizes Injunction and Monetary Judgment against Illegal Telemarketing Operation and its Owners","author":"ndrayton","date":"January 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A federal district court has entered final orders against a telemarketing company and its owners, who made millions of illegal, unsolicited calls to people that were registered on the Do Not Call Registry. 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