United States v. Epsilon Data Management, LLC
Docket Number: 1:21-cr-00006-RM (D. Colo.)
On January 27, 2021, U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore approved the entry of a deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) between the Department of Justice and Epsilon Data Management, LLC, (“Epsilon”). The DPA relates to the company’s role in knowingly selling consumer data to clients engaged in fraud. Under the terms of the DPA, Epsilon, a marketing company with principal sales operations based in Colorado, agreed to pay a total monetary penalty of $150 million, with $127.5 million of that amount going to compensate victims of the fraudulent schemes that used consumer data sold by Epsilon. Epsilon also agreed to implement significant compliance measures designed to safeguard consumers’ data. In a statement of facts, Epsilon admitted that its employees sold consumer data to clients engaged in fraud despite knowing that those and similar clients had been arrested, charged with crimes, convicted, and were otherwise subject to law enforcement actions for false and misleading practices. Epsilon further admitted that over the course of nearly a decade, the company knowingly sold 30 million American consumers’ data to clients engaged in fraud.
