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California Joins 49 States and the District of Columbia in Settlement with Global Money Services Business

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On April 12, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that California has joined a multistate settlement between state attorneys general from 49 states and the District of Columbia and a global money services business to resolve allegations that scammers used the company’s wire transfer services to defraud consumers (see previous InfoBytes post). Under the terms of the settlement, California consumers who made a wire transfer during the period of January 1, 2004 through January 19, 2017, may be eligible for a share of more than $65 million in refunds. As previously covered in InfoBytes, on January 19 of this year, the global money services business entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the DOJ and FTC requiring, among other things, the business to pay $586 million in refunds to consumers to settle allegations that the company had failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and aided and abetted wire fraud.