A leading salesman for an Internet-based business opportunity that promised easy income for investors in an Internet shopping mall network has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that...

Commission approval of modified Part II agreement and decision and order: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a modified Part II agreement and decision and...

A federal district court has ordered a temporary halt to an Arizona-based telemarketing operation which, according to the Federal Trade Commission, has used deceptive and unfair practices to bilk...

The Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the State of Illinois today announced that subprime lender Mercantile Mortgage Company, Inc. (Mercantile)...

The Federal Trade Commission today told the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging that about 10 percent of consumers who called the agency to report that they are victims of identity theft are age 60...

On October 8-10, 2002, the Federal Trade Commission will host a three-day public workshop to explore how certain state regulations and private business practices may be having significantly...

Presenting Federal Trade Commission reauthorization testimony today before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism of the Commerce Committee, Chairman Timothy J...

What: Press conference to announce a settlement with an Ohio mortgage lender charged with deceptive lending practices, and the announcement of separate charges against a Chicago-based mortgage broker...

What: A media availability to discuss a three-day public workshop that will explore the potential anticompetitive effects on e-commerce of certain state regulations, and how certain e-commerce...

Under the terms of a proposed consent agreement announced today, the Federal Trade Commission would allow Amgen Inc.'s (Amgen) proposed $16 billion acquisition of Immunex Corporation (Immunex) to...

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice today issued a joint letter urging the Council of the North Carolina State Bar to approve a proposed opinion that would explicitly...

The implications of competition law and policy for health care financing and delivery are the focus of a Federal Trade Commission workshop to be held on September 9-10, 2002 in Washington, D.C. The...

The MSC.Software Corporation matter has been withdrawn from adjudication for the purpose of considering a proposed consent agreement. In October 2001, the Commission issued an administrative challenge...

The Federal Trade Commission today testified that it supports a Senate bill to increase penalties for identity thieves who use stolen identities to commit certain federal crimes. J. Howard Beales III...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced times, location, and participants for the July 10 and July 11, 2002 sessions in their joint...

The Commission has authorized the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the transfer of delegations of authority to disclose certain nonpublic information to foreign law enforcement...

In an initial decision filed on June 27, 2002 and announced today, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) D. Michael Chappell dismissed all allegations of anticompetitive conduct in a March 2001 Federal Trade...

Canoga Park, California-based D.C. Credit Services, Inc. and company co-owner, David Cohen, have agreed to pay a $300,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges that...

The Federal Trade Commission today issued the third follow-up review of its September 2000 Report to Congress, Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Review of Self-Regulation and Industry...

In an initial decision filed on June 20, 2002, and announced today, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) James P. Timony ordered a series of companies, all of which are subsidiaries of French corporation...