DirecTV to Pay for Do-Not-Call Violations - Hooray for the Justice Department!!!

This is just a good story to link to show how the Federal government is working for us working people...

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DirecTV Inc. will pay $5.35 million to settle charges that its telemarketers called households listed on the national do-not-call registry to pitch satellite TV programming, Federal Trade Commission officials said Tuesday.

The proposed settlement, if approved by a federal judge in Los Angeles, would be the FTC's largest civil penalty in a consumer protection case.
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Right on!!!