
美国新泽西州的三名兄弟将支付166万美元,以了结一起联邦诉讼,该诉讼指控他们拨打了5960万次骚扰电话。
美国司法部上周五表示,肖恩·卡尼(Sean Carney)和约瑟夫·卡尼(Joseph Carney)经营的国际环境安全公司(Environmental Safety International),以及雷蒙德·卡尼(Raymond Carney)经营的电话营销公司Carbo,利用这些电话来销售粪池和化粪池清洁产品。
美司法部称,卡尼三兄弟同意接受1020万美元的民事罚款,其中大部分被暂停。他们实际将支付166万美元,并被没收77.4万美元的财产。他们还同意不收取164,402美元的客户未付款项。
据美国联邦贸易委员会(FTC)称,在2018年1月至2020年12月期间,这两家公司合作进行了数千万次非法电话营销。
美国司法部的起诉书称,这些电话违反了联邦贸易委员会的电话营销销售规则,该规则要求电话营销人员披露卖方身份,并要求呼叫者跳过拒收讯息登记册上的号码。

Three brothers in New Jersey will pay $1.66 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging they made 59.6 million harassing phone calls.
Environmental Safety International, an international environmental security company run by Sean Carney and Joseph Carney, and Carbo, a telemarketing company run by Raymond Carney, use the phones to sell septic and septic tank cleaning products, the Justice Department said on Friday.
The Carney brothers agreed to accept $10.2 million in civil fines, most of which were suspended, the Justice Department said. They will actually pay $1.66 million and confiscate $774000 of property. They also agreed not to charge $164402 in unpaid payments from customers.
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), between January 2018 and December 2020, the two companies worked together to conduct tens of millions of illegal telemarketing.
The DoJ indictment said the calls violated the Federal Trade Commission's telemarketing sales rules, which required telemarketers to disclose the identity of the seller and required callers to skip the number on the do-not-call register.