At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court in Illinois has entered a final order and default judgment against a group of individual and corporate defendants based in Ontario, Canada, for their role in a cross-border telemarketing scheme involving credit card offers and free cellular telephone offers. The defendants, collectively known as Pacific Liberty, are liable for about $5 million -- the total net sales they made.
The case was brought with the help of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Toronto Strategic Partnership, which consists of the FTC, Competition Bureau Canada and various law enforcement agencies. Canadian regulators filed criminal charges against two of the defendants in September 2007. One got a year in jail and another received a six-month conditional sentence. Both were barred from telemarketing for 10 years. Read more about the case here . ...
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