government has collected $6,790 of that amount. In March 2021 the Federal Communications Commission fined two Texas-based telemarketers $225 million after making approximately 1 billion robocalls to people across the US. John C. Spiller and Jakob A. Mears, who used business names including Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, were responsible for the calls. One of the people involved in the scheme admitted to making "millions" of robocalls per day, even going so far as to go out of his way to call numbers on the Do Not Call list because he believed it would be more profitable to do so. In August 2021 the Federal Communications Commission proposed a $5.1 million fine for Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl. Burkman and Wohl were charged with violating election laws and voter intimidation through thousands of robocalls. The pair attempted to suppress votes in multiple U.S. cities - specifically those with significant minority populations - in the 2020 U.S. General Election. See also Telemarketing Autodialer Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 References Further reading Law review articles Robert R. Biggerstaff, State Courts and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991: must States Opt-in? Can States Opt-out? 33 Conn. L. Rev. 407 (2001). Kevin N. Tharp, Federal Court Jurisdiction over Private TCPA Claims: Why the Federal Courts of Appeals Got it Right, 52 Fed. Comm. L.J. 189 (1999). David E. Sorkin, Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 45 Buffalo L. Rev. 1001 (1997). Hillary B. Miller and Robert R. Biggerstaff, Application of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to Intrastate Telemarketing Calls and Faxes, Fed. Comm. L.J. 667 (2000) External links Telemarketing United States federal communications legislation United States federal privacy legislation 1991 in law Consumer protection legislation United States federal legislation articles without infoboxes