| WHAT: | The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with 101 federal and state law enforcers, will announce “Operation Stop Scam Calls,” a joint-agency crackdown on telemarketers, lead generators, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers responsible for making or facilitating billions of illegal telemarketing calls. |
| WHEN: | Tuesday, July 18, 10:30 am CDT (11:30 am EDT) |
| WHERE: | FTC Midwest Region Office
230 S. Dearborn Street, Room 3030
Chicago, Illinois 60604 |
| WHO: | The FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection Director, Samuel Levine, will be joined by: - Arun G. Rao, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Branch;
- Loyaan A. Egal, Chief of the Enforcement Bureau, Federal Communications Commission;
- Dave Yost, Ohio Attorney General; and
- Kwame Raoul, Illinois Attorney General.
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