Attorney General Todd Rokita and seven states triumph in fight against illegal robocall scam
Attorney General Todd Rokita along with Arkansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio and Texas won a court ruling permanently barring robocall scammer John Spiller from operating in the telecommunications industry and ordering him to pay more than $600,000 in costs and attorneys’ fees for violating a 2023 court order. Spiller owned and operated several voice service providers that initiated and facilitated billions of robocalls, including to people whose numbers were on the Do Not Call Registry.
“This ruling is a significant victory in our fight to protect Hoosiers from the scourge of illegal robocalls,” Attorney General Rokita said. “These deceptive practices disrupt lives and erode trust in our communication systems. Our office, alongside our partner states, remains committed to holding violators accountable and ensuring justice for our citizens.”
Since January of 2021, Attorney General Rokita’s office has secured over $200 Million in penalties against illegal and annoying robocallers.
The various illegal robocalling operations that were put out of business were responsible for facilitating billions of robocalls across the United States. Not only did our office put these operations out of business, several injunctive terms were put into place to keep the violators and their companies out of the industry, such as: permanent ban on robocalls, permanent ban on telemarketing, prohibitions on vacating various federal and state laws, network monitoring, and the screening of current and prospective customers, just to name a few.
Spiller’s companies included Rising Eagle Capital Group LLC, Rising Eagle Capital Group–Cayman, JSquared Telecom LLC and more.
The court order bars Spiller from starting any other telecommunications companies, permanently bans him from working with certain individuals who helped him engage in this violative conduct, bans him from further making any deceptive representations using aliases in government filings, and requires that he pay over $600,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to the states who joined in the litigation against him.
The plaintiff states’ efforts were supported by detailed calculations based on the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) Attorney’s Fees Matrix, ensuring fair and transparent accounting of the legal resources expended.
Read the judge’s order here.
