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gizaFIRST DNC ACTION SPARKED BY CALL TO FTC COMMISSIONERNEW YORK -- The first national no-call action filed by the Federal Trade Commission resulted from an ill-advised telemarketing call to an FTC commissioner, an agency official said yesterday during a session at the DMD New York Conference & Exposition.
National Consumer Council purchased a subscription to the national no-call registry, but it failed to block a call to FTC commissioner Orson Swindle. The story was told by Thomas A. Cohn, FTC senior assistant regional director for the northeast region.
NCC became the subject of an undercover investigation by the FTC and received no advance notice that an inquiry was underway because of allegations of fraud as well as no-call violations, Cohn said. The FTC announced a civil suit against NCC on May 5.
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=27964
Does anyone else find it amewsing that the Federal Trade Commission, the agency charged with cracking down on deceptive trade practices (among other things) has a commissioner with the last name of Swindle!
