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“We’re taking this action to protect consumers,” DeWine said in a prepared statement. “We think people should know about the repeated problems customers have had with this operator.”
DeWine’s office obtained a judgment against Wells in a consumer protection case in 2017 and an investigation found that the problems have continued.
In the lawsuit, DeWine accuses Wells of violating Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act and Home Solicitation Sales Act. DeWine is seeking a permanent injunction to ban Wells from doing business with new customers until he repays consumers he didn’t fulfill service to.
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