The Department of Justice has ordered TracFone Wireless, the company the federal government contracted to provide the Obamaphones, to pay a fine of $13.5 million for signing up over 175,000 customers for Obamaphones who were actually ineligible for the program. The fraud took place between 2012 and 2015.
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The Department of Justice has ordered TracFone Wireless, the company the federal government contracted to provide the Obamaphones, to pay a fine of $13.5 million for signing up over 175,000 customers for Obamaphones who were actually ineligible for the program. The fraud took place between 2012 and 2015.
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