Court Finalizes Injunction and Monetary Judgment against Illegal Telemarketing Operation and its Owners

Summary:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against a telemarketing company and its owners, Day Pacer, LLC and EduTrek, LLC, for making millions of illegal, unsolicited calls to people registered on the Do Not Call Registry. The court has ordered the defendants to pay $28.7 million in civil penalties and permanently banned them from participating in telemarketing or assisting others engaged in telemarketing. The individual defendants, Raymond Fitzgerald, Ian Fitzgerald, and David Cumming, were also found to have knowingly violated the Telemarketing Sales Rule, resulting in joint liability for the judgment.