Tax Firm Engaged in Civil Conspiracy to Violate TCPA, Alleges Class Action
Plaintiff Kent McCoy of Russellville, Arkansas, seeks injunctive relief and treble damages against Millennia Tax Relief and its principals, Robert Kim and Calen Meza, for their willful and knowing violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, said McCoy’s class action…
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Thursday (docket 4:23-cv-00898) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Arkansas in Little Rock. The defendants began placing autodialed and prerecorded telemarketing calls to McCoy’s cellphone around April 18 to a number he had listed on the national do not call registry in November 2006, and did so for the purposes of selling him employee retention credit (ERC) tax services, said his complaint. It accuses Millennia, Kim and Meza of a civil conspiracy to commit TCPA wrongdoing, alleging they agreed among themselves to violate the TCPA and injure McCoy and his class members “by conducting an illegal robocalling campaign meant to advertise their ERC-related business services.” The defendants “created websites for themselves and their alias companies,” and directed and approved “a recorded message to be played to unsuspecting call recipients,” said the class action. They also supervised the calls, and paid for the services, “achieving the outcome of generating awareness of their business offerings,” it said. The defendants “met in person and/or communicated by phone and email to achieve the objectives of the conspiracy,” it said. McCoy and his class members “were injured by the conspiracy in the form of the annoyance, burden, time, and expense of dealing with the unwanted, illegal robocalls,” it said.