A settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires the operators of a government imposter scheme to pay $1.2 million and also comes with a ban on sending any further unsolicited direct mail to businesses across the U.S. The FTC says that the three companies controlled by Thomas Henry Fred, Jr., were behind a large scale campaign that “sent thousands of businesses mailers designed to look like invoices from a government agency for labor law posters”” The settlement requires the defendants to pay over $8 million
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