Local companies fined for no-call violations

Two Madison companies were fined for violating Wisconsin’s no-call law, according to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Easy Mortgage, Inc. paid $31,420 for calling people on the no-call list. First Midwest Mortgage Corp. was fined $75,000 for soliciting people on the no-call list and for not registering as a telemarketer. Two window and door companies elsewhere in the state received similar fines, including a Kaukauna company whose 2014 telemarketing application was denied. It received a $45,000 fine for calling people on the no-call list.