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"Bartoli sent 57 million calls to registered phone numbers in a six-month period of 2017 alone, the complaint says. He is now subject to a proposed court order permanently banning him from calling numbers on the Do Not Call registry."

I'm sure he is shaking in his boots. Where are up to $40,000 per violation fines? This is a toothless pseudo-enforcement and political hay.




The proposed punishment is here: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/182-3105/d...

There was a $2M fine, but it's suspended if he complies. Argh.


Wait, what? He's been ordered to obey the law that he wasn't obeying?




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