Press Releases

Silver State Western Publishing, Inc., doing business as Prime Time Marketing, a Las Vegas-based telemarketer, and its president John A. Pieri, have agreed to pay $65,000 to settle Federal Trade...

Petitions to reopen and modify or set aside orders: The FTC has received a petition from the following entity seeking changes in an FTC order. Before the Commission rules, the petition is subject to...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached settlements with two of three defendants in its case against the Los Angeles-based marketers of 900-number "turnkey" business ventures. The settlements bar...

Suzanne Bannister, of Longwood, Florida, and her Massachusetts-based employment firm, Direct Link, Inc., have been ordered by a federal district court to post a $50,000 performance bond before...

An Ohio-based mortgage banker has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it provided false and misleading information about payment schedules and the cost of credit to mortgage...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Application for prior approval of transaction: The FTC has received applications...

Adoption of industry standards, as well as technological advances in the manufacture of glass used in utilitarian and decorative mirrors have made the Federal Trade Commission’s Guides for the Mirror...

On May 24, 1996, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit remanded the case In re: Detroit Auto Dealers Ass’n, Inc., directing the Federal Trade Commission to hold a hearing. Today...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission and 23 state Attorneys General announce law enforcement actions against several major automobile manufacturing companies in this country. These actions follow our...

Richard Randall, one of the remaining defendants sued by the Federal Trade Commission over his role in an allegedly deceptive telemarketing scheme that purported to recover money consumers lost to...

Five major automobile manufacturers have signed settlement agreements with the Federal Trade Commission to take important lease costs out of the blur of unreadable print in car lease and financed...

Retailers say scanner technology has several advantages: speeding checkout time, lowering labor costs, and improving sales and inventory records. They also say that scanning results in fewer pricing...

A Florida telemarketing operation that conned thousands of consumers into ordering merchandise, charged them inflated prices and pressured them to collect bills will pay $1 million to settle Federal...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement with a California company that manufactures and markets "California Tan Heliotherapy" tanning products. According to the FTC, California...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will continue to challenge the proposed merger of the Butterworth and Blodgett hospitals in Grand Rapids, Michigan by appealing a federal district...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Applications for approval of transactions : The FTC has received an application...

Advertising claims for PhaseOut, a device marketed as helping smokers to stop smoking and making cigarettes less harmful are unsubstantiated, the FTC said today. The two companies that promoted this...

The Federal Trade Commission today charged that Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s 1995 acquisition of AutoInfo, Inc. assets created a monopoly that has raised prices and reduced the quality of service...

I am pleased that you could be with us today to announce a joint federal/state law enforcement initiative targeting get-rich-quick business opportunity schemes. We are also joined this morning by Mark...

In a massive crackdown that is the broadest federal-state coordinated effort of its type, the Federal Trade Commission and enforcement officials from 25 states today announced that they have taken...