Attorneys general from 49 U.S. states are suing telecommunications company Avid Telecom, claiming the firm is “initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people.”
The lawsuit (pdf) was filed on May 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, where Avid Telecom is headquartered.
Defendants in the suit are listed as Avid Telecom, CEO Michael D. Lansky, and Vice President of Operations and Sales Stacey Reeves.
Attorneys general say the company, which advertises itself as a “leading voice solutions provider,” has made roughly 7.5 billion robocalls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry in the United States since 2019, in violation of multiple telemarketing laws….