Press Releases

A telemarketing operation selling tooth whitening kits and weight-loss patches will pay $463,000 in consumer redress and $11,000 in civil penalties to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. The FTC...

Consumer reporting agency Far West Credit, Inc. will pay $120,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it did not follow reasonable procedures to assure the accuracy of the information in...

Publication of Federal Register notices: The Commission, by a vote of 5-0, has authorized publication of a Federal Register notice announcing the revised thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...

Consumers can test their knowledge about protecting their personal information and responding if their identity is stolen. The new quiz, available at www.onguardonline.gov/quiz, asks questions about...

Commission authorization of amicus brief filing: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amicus brief opposing a proposed class action settlement in Chavez v. Netflix, Inc., No. CGC-04...

People may sleep better if the Federal Trade Commission succeeds in its effort to stop a marketer of adjustable beds from calling telephone numbers listed on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today swore in J. Thomas Rosch as an FTC Commissioner. Rosch, whose term runs through September 25, 2012, was nominated by President George W...

Two operations that promoted spyware detection products by making bogus claims have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their claims were deceptive and violated federal law. Each...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today swore in William E. Kovacic as the FTC’s newest commissioner. Kovacic, whose term runs through September 25, 2011, was nominated by...

The mastermind behind a scheme to sell dietary supplements using claims the Federal Trade Commission alleged were false and unsubstantiated has been banned from the direct response marketing of foods...

Commission authorization of filing of amended complaint: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the matter currently pending against Centurion Financial Benefits, et...

Relief defendant Pamela Pukke, the estranged wife of AmeriDebt, Inc. founder Andris Pukke, has agreed to forfeit all rights to assets currently held in receivership and will cooperate with the Federal...

Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice announcing that in 2006 it will conduct a regulatory review of the Guides for the...

Commission authorization of filing of amended complaint: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the matter currently pending against Del Sol LLC, et al. In April 2005...

Thomas B. Leary announced today that he will resign his position as Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, effective December 31, 2005. Commissioner Leary, a Republican, was nominated by...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today announced that Susan Creighton, director of the Bureau of Competition for the past two-and-a-half years, will leave the FTC. The Chairman...

The FTC, U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Canadian consumer protection officials, and three state Attorneys General today announced a law enforcement initiative targeting...

Kovacic is currently the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School, where he began to teach in 1999. He was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001...

Commission approval of staff comments: The Commission has approved the filing of comments by the staffs of the Bureau of Competition, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning with...

Press conference to announce civil and criminal law enforcement initiatives targeting illegal spam operations announced by the FTC, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Canadian Competition Bureau, and the...