FTC and Federal and State Partners to Announce Nationwide Robocall and Telemarketing Enforcement Sweep in Chicago on July 18

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.