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On October 10, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced that consumer reporting agency Equifax Information Services LLC (“Equifax”) and several of its customers, including Direct Lending Source, Inc. (“Direct Lending”), have agreed to pay a combined total of nearly $1.6 million to settle FTC allegations that they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in connection with the sale of data regarding consumers in financial distress
On February 29, 2008, Allen Cotten pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to stealing microwave technologies from his former employer, Genesis Microwave, Inc., and selling or offering them for sale to foreign governments and military contractors
