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 NEWS  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  TTY  202  /  418-  2555  Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  ftp.  fcc.  gov  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974). 
 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE  May  8,  2001  NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT:  John  Winston  (202)  418-  7450 
 FCC  Upholds  $750,  000  Slamming  Fine  to  Coleman  Enterprises,  Inc. 
 Washington,  D.  C.  -  Today  the  Federal  Communications  Commission  (Commission)  released  an  order  denying  a  Petition  for  Reconsideration  filed  by 
 Coleman  Enterprises,  Inc.,  d/  b/  a  Local  Long  Distance,  Inc.  (CEI)  in  which  CEI  requests  review  of  the  Commission’s  November,  2000  Order  of  Forfeiture. 


 The  Commission  had  imposed  a  $750,000  fine  on  CEI  for  violation  of  the 
 Commission’s  rules  against  slamming.  That  order  was  based  on  an  investigation  that  followed  the  Commission’s  receipt  of  hundreds  of  written  consumer  complaints  against 


 CEI  during  an  eleven-  month  period. 
 In  its  request  for  reconsideration,  CEI  argued,  among  other  things,  that  the  fine  should  be  reduced  or  rescinded  because  CEI  had  filed  for  bankruptcy  under  Chapter  11 
 of  the  Bankruptcy  Code.  In  today’s  order,  however,  the  Commission  determined  that  the  egregious  nature  of  the  violations  at  issue,  combined  with  the  fact  that  CEI  is  a  going 
 concern,  militates  against  reduction  or  recession  of  the  fine. 


 Action  by  the  Commission,  May  3,  2001,  by  Order  (FCC  01-  154).  Chairman 
 Powell,  Commissioners  Ness,  Furchtgott-  Roth  and  Tristani. 


 File  No.  EB-  99-  09 
 Enforcement  Bureau  Contacts:  John  Winston  at  (202)  418-  7450  or  Katherine  Power  at 
 (202)  418-  0919. 


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