That can be avoided by simply distancing yourself through various corporate shell games. That's how the big boys do it.
A good corporate lawyer can advise how to do this, but basically you setup a corporation that has no real assets that does business with the overseas company directly. Then you setup another totally separate corporation that uses the first corporation strictly as a "vendor". Let them fine and and subsequently bankrupt the first corporation, with no assets, it is hard to get blood from a stone. Then the second corporation just needs to find a new "vendor". It is similar to forming a corporation that owns your house and generates revenue from you paying "rent" (mortgage) payments. It is obviously a wash but your house is protected from any claims against you personally since it is owned by a total legally separate corporate entity. Thanks, Steve T On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Matt Florell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are correct, a company that is outside of the USA does not fall > under the laws of the USA. I said that myself. > > I also said that a company that is INSIDE of the USA or has operations > INSIDE of the USA is subject to the laws of the USA. > > This includes companies that are based in the USA that use lead > generation company that are outside of the USA. The company that is > doing lead generation outside of the USA will not get shut down. > > The company that they are doing lead generation for INSIDE of the USA > can get shut down for the activities of the company OUTSIDE of the USA > because they are acting on their behalf. > > This can still be a problem for the non-USA company because they might > not get paid for their lead generation activities if the USA-based > client of theirs is shut down. > > There are many instances of this happening. A recent one was last year > where a company called Ameriquest was fined $1 million for violation > of the DNC through it's affiliates, some of which were off-shore lead > generation companies. The company shut down because of this fine. > > MATT--- > > > On 6/13/08, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >"A large portion of these companies are doing lead-generation for >> >USA-based companies, and over the years a lot of those USA-based >> >companies have been shut down for the activities of their lead >> >suppliers. >> >> >MATT---" >> >> >> >> Source please? I'm calling bullshit. >> >> If an incroporated entitiy outside of the USA makes international calls >> into the USA they do not fall under this law regardless of the purpose >> of the calls. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dean >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users