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Company
Ordered to Cease Deceptive Calls in Iowa
Posted 16 November 2008
Attorney General Tom Miller
announced Friday, Nov. 14, that Midwest Publishing-DN, Inc. -- a paid
professional fundraising company based in Phoenix -- has been ordered
to stop abusive and misleading practices in its fundraising calls and
solicitations to Iowans.
Two principals of the operation also were named in the court
injunction: president and owner John F. McCallum of Phoenix, AZ, and
vice-president Stanislaw Burzynski of Woodbury, MN.
Midwest Publishing makes many thousands of telemarketing calls each
year into Iowa on behalf of Operation Lookout, the Firefighters
Charitable Foundation, and the Iowa Narcotics Officers Association.
Solicitation calls to Iowa are made from a phone room in St. Paul, MN.
“Midwest Publishing is prohibited from implying that its telemarketers
are members of the charitable organization, rather than paid
fundraisers, and from misrepresenting that donations will be used
locally,” Miller said.
The court order imposes many other restrictions designed to prevent
deception, Miller said. The consent judgment also provides that local
law enforcement or fire departments that experience citizen complaints
or other problems with Midwest Publishing’s fundraising can ask the
company to terminate solicitations in that community, and Midwest must
grant the request. Midwest Publishing also must pay $30,000 to the
State under the Court’s Order.
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