should verify the contents of the documents against a final, official Authority delegations (Government agencies). The calls, which did not advocate violence or suggest the building should be breached, was sent out by the Rule of Law Defense Fund, a fundraising arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association. Robocalls and the Do Not Call Registry. on from 36 agencies. I had breast cancer, so they knew how to get me, she said. We also clarify that a public entity is any governmental organization at the federal, state, or local level. daily Federal Register on FederalRegister.gov will remain an unofficial 14. accessible format documents, sign language interpreters, CART, etc. Baker said his employees never try to dupe donors and that he cant control what his clients, the PACs, do with the money he raises. Across the industry, calls are computer-generated before being routed to telemarketers, something Politicause and TPFE employees said allowed their firms to maximize the number of calls and to pester people repeatedly. Efforts to pass anti-robocall legislation have stalled for years, but the agreement announced Friday increases the odds that Congress will send the White House a bill before 2020. The authority citation for part 0 continues to read as follows: Authority: This robocall tip line will provide a streamlined process for reporting potential violations, and will enable the Enforcement Bureau to respond quickly to disruptive robocalling events. Instead, the bulk of the money is kept by fundraising firms or the people running the PACs. If youre a PAC, and youre raising money for one purpose and doing something else, thats fraud, said Elizabeth Grant, who oversees the Oregon Department of Justice Charities unit. We define private entity as any entity other than (1) an individual natural person or (2) a public entity. Learn more here. Once submitted, the Bureau will review to determine whether the information presents evidence of a violation of our rules. A spokesperson for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, the chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association, said he had no knowledge or involvement in this decision., Attorney General Carr has been working diligently to determine how this situation occurred and ensure that it does not happen again, said spokesperson Katie Byrd. daniel.stepanicich@fcc.gov. The FRFA is set forth in Appendix C. 18. The rules we adopt today create a streamlined process by which a private entity may submit information about suspected robocall and spoofing violations directly to the Bureau via an online portal located on the FCC website. are not part of the published document itself. Federal election laws were designed to prevent corruption, he said, not to protect consumers.. . Jan. 8, 2021, 5:36 PM PST. Always Be Closing, one poster read. About 82% of the money, $13.8 million, went to Zeitlins firms, while Piaro collected $190,613 in salary from the PACs, according to the records. Search the Legal Library instead. Commenters suggested that the Commission consolidate the new portal and its existing informal consumer complaint process, which the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau administers, or better distinguish the two processes by defining private entity to exclude consumers. Add 64.1204 to subpart L to read as follows: (a) Any private entity may submit to the Enforcement Bureau information related to a call made or a text message sent that the private entity has reason to believe was in violation of 64.1200(a) or 47 U.S.C. that, pursuant to 1.4(b)(1) and 1.427(a) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.4(b)(1), 1.427(a), this Report and Order and the amendments to parts 0 and 64 of the Commission's rules, as set forth in At 1 p.m., we will march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal, said the voice on the recording, which was obtained by NBC News. Although the portal will not reject submissions that fail to include the above information, such failure will make it more difficult for the Bureau to investigate fully and take appropriate enforcement action. We anticipate that this portal will be particularly useful to private entities experiencing large scale robocall incidents and voice service providers that have network analytic information. 47 U.S.C. The site has since been taken down. documents in the last year, by the Energy Department Black's Law Dictionary defines entity as [a]n organization (such as a business or a governmental unit) that has a legal identity apart from its members or owners. Second, we find that, as a policy matter, we should exclude individuals from the definition of private entity as the term is used in section 10(a) of the TRACED Act. Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises area residents to be cautious of phone calls or mailers soliciting donations to the National Police Support Fund, an organization that describes itself as a. You are not lying, but you are being extremely misleading, said Jason Jones, 24, a former employee at Politicause. Most of the guys that are real good are felons., Regulators responsible for protecting U.S. consumers from potentially unscrupulous fundraisers face a bedeviling new challenge: the scam PAC.. This new portal will not affect the process by which a consumer submits an informal complaint about a robocall or spoofed call, using the long-standing process located on the Commission's homepage. We are committed to protecting and defending law enforcement against progressive politicians, judges, and other officials that encourage the war on cops. (c) Compliance dateparagraph (a) of this section contains a voluntary information collection. Callers told Reuters they easily made the switch, working in the same buildings, for the same bosses, using similar scripts. He said only that it was based in Florida; Reuters could not determine the specific jurisdiction. Those two fundraising firms, whose ownership is not clear, dissolved Pledge Assistance in July 2018 and Politicause in June 2019, according to Wyoming records. Timely and thorough information from private entities is crucial to enable the Commission to mitigate illegal robocall incidents and bring swift enforcement actions. Some fundraisers work in both worlds, raising money for charities andPACs. Heroes United, accused of using deceptive tactics to get the firefighter donations, agreed to stop telemarketing in the county and to refund any donations. Good evening this is Mike Stevens calling for the Committee for police officers defense this calls recorded for quality assurance Ok Hello hello. documents in the last year, 853 shall be effective But because that suggested donors were contributing directly to purchasing new gear, the callers said they were told by managers to adjust their language. Quoting from its website, the "Committee for Police Officers' Defense is a 527 Committee designed to seek out radical prosecutors, judges and district attorneys." Another organization is. Caller type: Scammer/Fraudster. <25 Employees . They are looking for naturals, said Jones, adding that good performers could take home $1,000 to $1,500 a week. The TRACED Act directs the Commission no later than June 30, 2021 to prescribe regulations to establish a process that streamlines the ways in which a private entity may voluntarily share with the Commission information relating to violations of section 227(b) or 227(e) of the Communications Act. Sara Kemerer of the . Alex Angelides, a 31-year-old engineer from Arlington, Virginia, donated $600to a superPAC called For a Better America, which spent 90% of its money on fundraising alone. 05/04/2018 05:04 AM EDT. How Scam PACs fall through the cracks of U.S. regulators, The motto was, Leave your morals at the door, said Alexander Lefler, 21, who worked for nearly a year at a call center southeast of Birmingham, Alabama, describing what he saw as high-pressure and deceptive tactics. The Do Not Call law, the FTCs major weapon in policing telemarketing, does not apply to political calls, which have protections under the U.S. Constitution. documents in the last year, 467 This prototype edition of the Find the resources you need to understand how consumer protection law impacts your business. Rather, they and their fundraisers present the PACs as charities, suggesting they support veterans, firefighters or victims of deadly diseases, for instance. 227(e). We find that adopting a distinct intake process for private entities best satisfies the statutory language, while integrating it with the existing process managed by the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau will reduce administrative costs and consumer confusion. The President of the United States issues other types of documents, including but not limited to; memoranda, notices, determinations, letters, messages, and orders. Third, consumers will not be adversely affected by our decision to exclude them from the definition of private entity. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Some of the workers for TPFE also had felony convictions, according to several former callers and court records. 03/03/2023, 43 151, 154(i), 154(j), 155, 225, and 409, unless otherwise noted. 13. USTelecom requests that we encourage private entities to first coordinate with the registered traceback consortium prior to filing information in the portal. 03/03/2023, 159 Most were super PACs, but several were traditional political action committees, which have contribution limits. We recognize that consumers might mistakenly file complaints through the new streamlined process rather than the existing consumer complaint process. For instance, the operation raised $16.8 million for PACs founded by Robert Piaro of Fredonia, Wisconsin, which purported to support police, veterans and people with breast cancer. Some telemarketers who claim to be raising money for causes like homeless veterans and cancer victims work for political action committees (PACs), not charities, and keep much of the money they raise. The Bureau will review information submitted through the portal to assess violations of the rules in the same manner that it reviews information submitted to the Commission through other means. Weintraub and a fellow Democratic commissioner wrote a memo to that effect in 2016. The calls, which often target elderly donors, come from a variety of generic and similar-sounding aliases: The Police Officers Support Association, the National Emergency Responders Coalition and. Register documents. documents in the last year, 981 30 days after publication in the Even as they charmed millions from credulous donors, a dozen former callers for two major fundraisers told Reuters that they knew their companies would be keeping the vast majority of it. NPRM ThePAC, organized by Zachary Bass, spent 90% of its take on fundraising, campaign filings show. It is further ordered Eric Friedman, the Montgomery County consumer protection offices director, said he used his countys laws prohibiting deceptive trade practices to win the settlement. Aside from the lions share that went to for-profit fundraisers, many of the PAC operators took a slice for salaries and overhead. The Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for policing telemarketing, generally has no jurisdiction over political fundraising, said Lois Greisman, an associate director in charge of the agencys marketing practices division. We kind of all understood what we were doing was wrong, but I needed a place to live.. Private entity submissions of robocall violations. It is further ordered Our past robocall enforcement actions have relied extensively upon information from private entities. documents in the last year, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration More Reuters investigations and long-form narratives, Got a confidential news tip? The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau also forwards complaints to the Enforcement Bureau, which may use them to pursue enforcement actions. provide legal notice to the public or judicial notice to the courts. To the extent allowed by the Privacy Act of 1974 and our rules, the portal will clearly state that the Bureau may share submitted information with the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, other federal agencies combatting robocalls, state attorney general offices, other law enforcement entities with which the Commission has information sharing agreements, and the registered traceback consortium. That goal is to help police officers fight against the continuing "War on Cops" by taking a varied political stance against politicians, activist judges, prosecutors, district attorneys and a host of others who try to bring police officers down by any means. The documents posted on this site are XML renditions of published Federal Former Politicause employee Armstrong said he was fired in 2018, when the call center did charity fundraising, for having drugs at work. Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Communications Act), is designed to protect consumers from unlawful robocalls. Drug abuse was a problem at both call centers, ex-employees said. Here it would be virtually impossible for the consumer to do any research, he said. According to John Riggins,. Add 64.1606 to subpart P to read as follows: (a) Any private entity may submit to the Enforcement Bureau information related to a call or text message that the private entity has reason to believe included misleading or inaccurate caller identification information in violation of 64.1604(a) or 47 U.S.C. Box 663 Butler, WI 53007 Visit Website (833) 878-5783 Average of 30. What is wrong with giving somebody a second chance? Zeitlin responded when Reuters asked about his hiring practices. When organizations operate as political action committees, however, they are not subject to the laws governing charity fundraising, according to federal and state regulators and telemarketing industry officials. These markup elements allow the user to see how the document follows the I dont think you understand how hard it is to fundraise, said Forrest Sandusky Baker IV, a telemarketing professional. documents in the last year, 20 corresponding official PDF file on govinfo.gov. The Committee for Police Officers Defense is run by James J. Fotis, who is a retired New York Police officer, who ran unsuccessfully in 2007 for Sheriff of Manassas City / Manassas Park City / Prince William County. Commenters were concerned that the definition proposed in the The Republican Attorneys General Association raised more than $18 million in 2020 from several top corporations, including Pepsi, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase and Comcast, the parent company of NBC News. Sections 227(b), (c), and (d) impose specific requirements on telemarketing and prerecorded voice message calls to give consumers the ability to know who is calling and to control the calls they receive. They often are set up as super PACs, groups which in recent years have been empowered by the courts to raise and spend money in unlimited amounts, with little regulation. The full text of this document is available for public inspection online at In addition, public entities often contact Enforcement Bureau staff directly about robocalling and spoofing matters. documents in the last year, 35 In interviews, a dozen former employees of Politicause and Zeitlins TPFE described techniques they used to wrangle donations, leaving contributors with the impression they were giving to good causes. Ultimately, changes must come at the federal level, said Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat who chairs the Federal Election Commission. Recording / robocall Comments . Coffee is for Closers Only, read another. or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice). In this Issue, Documents The Cherokee Nation Businesses LLC, which donated $150,000 in 2020, said it has requested an immediate refund of its sponsorship to the Republican Attorneys General Association, and the organization obliged. Bass, who set up several other super PACs, declined to comment. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Analysis. that the Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Reference Information Center, We have never contributed to Rule of Law Defense Fund. Some tips for consumers: Listen carefully for the name of the organization. (k) Perform such other functions as may be assigned or referred to it by the Commission. Reuters also could not ascertain the ownership of another large fundraising operation with a call center in Hoover, Alabama, some 45 miles from Zeitlins center in Sylacauga. Consumers are already served by the existing informal complaint intake process, and the TRACED Act gives no indication that Congress intended to upset or replace that process. We wish it was 100, but we have to keep the lights on.. It wasnt easy: The secretive nature of this and other fundraising operations makes them difficult to pin down, he said, and he was able to identify the many players involved only by using subpoena power. For example, in two enforcement actions, a medical paging company was a key source; it informed the Bureau that the paging company's phone lines were being bombarded by spoofed robocalls. to the courts under 44 U.S.C. I cant speak to peoples understanding or what the scripts said., I dont think you understand how hard it is to fundraise. 4. A website set up to promote the rally that preceded the Capitol incursion lists the Rule of Law Defense Fund as one of the participating organizations. website. The "Committee for Police Officer's Defense" (CPOD) was configured to help police officers fight against the continuing "War on Cops" by taking a varied political stance against politicians, activist judges, prosecutors, district attorneys and a host of others who try to bring police officers down by any means. 21. WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today issued the following statement after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the bipartisan Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act.The bill will now be sent to the president's desk to be signed into law: I have directed an internal review of this matter.. documents in the last year, 26 27. The portal will collect contact information of the reporting entity, information about the suspected illegal robocall, and a description of the robocall incident. Accordingly, The Federal Election Commission has jurisdiction over political spending but neither the agency nor Congress has acted on recommendations in 2016 by some of its own members to strengthen fraud protections and disclosure requirements as part of campaign law. on NARA's archives.gov. Federal Register Reuters interviewed a dozen donors to PACs. Use our visualizations to explore scam and fraud trends in your state based on reports from consumers like you. Federal Register provide legal notice to the public and judicial notice i.e., Demonstrators attempt to enter the U.S. Capitol during a protest on Jan. 6, 2021. To request material in accessible formats for people with disabilities (braille, large print, electronic files, audio format), send an email to First, we find that there is value in maintaining the separate informal consumer complaint process. The call center in Sylacauga, visited by Reuters last year, was operated by Las Vegas-based TPFE Inc, a firm controlled by Zeitlin. The FTC declined to comment. Federal Register Paxtons office did not respond to a request for comment. Thus we adopt SAFE Credit Union's suggestion that the portal clearly explain its purpose and intended use. To that end, the new portal's home page will include prominent language that not only explains its purpose and use, but also distinguishes that portal from the existing informal consumer complaint process so as to minimize possible confusion. The Committee for Police Officers' Defense (CPOD) The "Committee for Police Officer's Defense" (CPOD) was configured in order to complete an intrinsic goal. If an individual consumer mistakenly files a complaint with the new portal, the Bureau will forward the complaint to the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. are amended Register (ACFR) issues a regulation granting it official legal status. shall send of the issuing agency. Its a sink or swim environment. The Commission will send a copy of this Report and Order to Congress and the Government Accountability Office pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Like many such telemarketing centers tucked away in strip malls or office parks, it offered no clues to what went on inside. Together Politicause and Pledge Assistance earned close to $20 million between January 2017 through mid-2019 raising money for PACS, campaign finance records show. To request this document in accessible formats for people with disabilities ( The political action committee spent 91% of its money on fundraising in the 2 year examined by Reuters, Federal Election Commission records show. A week later, Armstrong said, he was rehired to help raise money for political action committees. It is further ordered Our PAC contributions to both the Republican and Democratic Attorneys General associations were used strictly for attorneys generals campaign purposes, the spokesperson said in a statement. that the Commission Appendix A, Open for Comment, Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions, Economic Sanctions & Foreign Assets Control, Fisheries of the Northeastern United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, PART 64MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS, https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-14711, MODS: Government Publishing Office metadata, https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/06171386503472/FCC-21-75A3.pdf. If the potential donors suspected they had given to the group before, the callers were instructed to say: I have no way of knowing because we feel that donations are given from the heart, not the hand, so we keep all donation records confidential, according to the FAQ. Thus, a private entity is only in a position to provide information about calls that it suspects are violations of the law. Information about this document as published in the Federal Register. Second, we find that establishing a stand-alone process designed specifically to handle concerns from private entities ( documents in the last year, 663 Its infuriating, said Angelides, who learned from Reuters that it was a PAC that got his money. In the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act), Congress directed the Commission to establish regulations to create a process that streamlines the ways in which a private entity may voluntarily share with the Commission information relating to a call or text message that violates prohibitions regarding robocalls or spoofing set forth section 227(b) and 227(e) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. on My job is to deliver a message, and try as best as I can to make sure Im not working for a scumbag, he said. The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau uses this Start Printed Page 52843 documents in the last year, 1411 Amend 0.111 by redesignating paragraph (j) as paragraph (k) and revising it and by adding new paragraph (j) to read as follows: (j) Collects and reviews information received from private entities related to violations of 64.1200(a) and 64.1604(a) of this chapter. 1. To protect law enforcement methods and techniques, we decline to adopt SAFE Credit Union's suggestion to detail the exact steps and criteria that the Bureau will use to evaluate the information submitted. This Report and Order establishes a streamlined process for private entities to submit information about unlawful, unwanted calls. Lisa Cavazuti is an investigative reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. Caller name: Committee for Police Officer's Defense. Consistent with these privacy protections, however, the Bureau may share information gathered from the portal with other government agencies combatting robocalls. In Montgomery County, Maryland, the consumer protection office recently won a settlement against a super PAC called Heroes United, run by Zachary Bass of Baltimore. If new workers werent making sales, they were quickly fired. It also has roots in charity fundraising. What a racket, oh my God., On his website, Zeitlin said his firms revenue which he described as 80% to 90% of the proceeds may seem high but actually is standard for the industry and is needed to offset high costs for technology and intensive time-consuming labor.. 727-351-8757 "Committee for Police Officer Defense" illegal-telemarketing, likely a SCAM- this guy will call you daily, weekends, nights too, over and over from ever changing different numbers & using different fund names. A private entity cannot determine whether a call violated the TCPA or the Truth in Caller ID Actthis determination is left to the Commission, an action brought by state law enforcement, or a judicial outcome from a private right of action. documents in the last year, 513 P, sec. Learn more about your rights as a consumer and how to spot and avoid scams. While acknowledging that every industry has its bad apples,he wrote: To this day it strikes me as odd that an industry that has over the years hired hundreds of thousands of people (perhaps millions), many of whom had trouble holding down more traditional day jobs, would become such a punching bag for the government and the media.. Delany De Leon-Colon, postal inspector in charge of the USPS Criminal Investigation Unit, explained how the elderly are particularly likely to fall for robocall . All said they thought they were giving to a charity. informational resource until the Administrative Committee of the Federal rendition of the daily Federal Register on FederalRegister.gov does not The current informal consumer complaint process is a vital tool for the Commission. No Republican AG authorized the staffs decision to amplify a colleague speaking at the event. 9. Find legal resources and guidance to understand your business responsibilities and comply with the law. 2. Reuters gains rare access into the world of fundraising for these charitable-sounding political action committees, a tiny but profitable niche in the U.S. telemarketing industry. Few other top officers at these fundraising firms and PACS would speak to Reuters on the record. 7. Even so, Reuters identified a loose network of fundraising companies and PACs that quickly grew into a money-making force, with some ranking near the top fundraisers in the period stretching from January 2017 through mid-2019. fcc504@fcc.gov 5. More information and documentation can be found in our or to request reasonable accommodations ( publication in the future. Its hard to bring these cases unless you have evidence disproving that.. Stephanie T. 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