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DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
The multi-million dollar fines announced with great fanfaire by the Federal Communication Commission are almost never collected. The FCC doesn't have enforcement authority to collect fines. The FCC usually withholds license renewals until penalties are paid. If the violator doesn't have any FCC licenses (or doesn't care), the FCC is powerless.
The FCC refers uncollected penalties to the Department of Justice. In the past, DOJ didn't prioritize uncollected penalties and most fines were never enforced.
The Department of Justice Files Suit to Recover $9.9 Million Forfeiture Penalty for Nearly 5,000 Illegally Spoofed Robocalls
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-suit-recover-forfeiture-penalty-nearly-5000-illegally-spoofed
Current thread:
- DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls Michael Thomas (Oct 21)
- Re: DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Oct 21)
- Re: DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls Dovid Bender (Oct 22)
- Re: DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Oct 21)
- Re: DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls Michael Thomas (Oct 21)