By: Eric Heisig//September 5, 2013//
A Lansing, Mich.-based company that allegedly tried to defraud thousands of corporations settled for $340,000 Wednesday in a case brought by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Mandatory Poster Agency Inc., along with Steven Fata, one of its owners, was ordered by Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess to pay $183,500 in restitution, costs and attorney fees, along with more than $156,000 in civil forfeitures and other fees.
The company, according to prosecutors, sent mailers to nearly 73,000 Wisconsin corporations by saying they did business as Corporate Records Service. The mailer said the corporations had to fill out an “annual minutes form,” and that the law required they fill out the form and send it back with a $125 payment.
The company and the state reached a settlement Wednesday, following opening statements in the trial.