Press Releases

Spammers who collected consumers' personal identifying information, including credit card information, by telling them they had to supply the data or lose access to the Internet have agreed to settle...

Liverite Products, Inc., based in Tustin, California, its two principals, and two other individuals agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made numerous unsubstantiated claims in...

Applications for proposed divestiture: The Commission has received an application for a proposed divestiture from the following: Hoechst AG, Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (renamed Aventis S.A.). The application...

Commission authorization to file amended complaint: The Commission has authorized staff to file an amended complaint regarding the following: First Alliance Mortgage Companies and First Alliance...

Three operators of an Internet-based business opportunity that promised easy income for investors in an Internet shopping mall network have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their...

In an action brought against a company that target-marketed its travel packages primarily through unsolicited faxes, the Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement that will bar Resorts...

Recently appointed Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris told a gathering of attorneys that they should expect continuity with the previous administration in antitrust enforcement at the...

A U.S. District Judge has held Richard Murkey, his company Credit Restoration Corporation of America, Inc. (CRCA), and Keith Gill in civil contempt for violating the court's November 1999 final order...

WHAT: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris will address the American Bar Association's 124th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Chairman Muris' speech is titled: "Antitrust Enforcement at the...

Companies that illegally "crammed" unauthorized charges for a variety of services onto consumers' telephone bills and claimed that consumers had to pay the charges, even though they neither purchased...

Pursuant to the consent order in the following matter, the Commission has granted prior approval of a proposed divestiture and approved Hold Separate and Trustee Agreements: Lafarge S.A./Blue Circle...

Vocational Guides, Inc. (VGI) and its president, Timothy Scott Jackson, are permanently banned from promoting or selling employment services, and will pay approximately $191,600 in disgorgement and...

The Federal Trade Commission today met in closed session to consider an enforcement action to authorize staff to seek a preliminary injunction against PepsiCo's proposed acquisition of the Quaker Oats...

Natural Organics, Inc., based in Melville, New York, and its president, Gerald Kessler, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made unsubstantiated claims that their dietary...

The Federal Trade Commission today charged Warner Communications, Inc., and several subsidiaries of Vivendi Universal S.A., with illegally agreeing to fix prices for audio and video products featuring...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment from businesses, professional associations, consumer groups and others on proposed security standards for customer financial information held by a broad...

Application for proposed transaction: The Commission has received an application for approval of a proposed transaction from the following: Unified Western Grocers, Inc. (Unified). The application...

WHAT: On August 2, 2001 at 9:00 a.m. the Federal Trade Commission will hold an initial public conference to examine factors that affect prices of refined petroleum products in the United States. The...

Unscrupulous telemarketers continue to peddle worthless credit card loss "protection," and the Federal Trade Commission continues to work to stop them from doing so. In the latest action, announced...

The operator of an Internet site that sold access to templates and software used to produce false identity documents, such as drivers licenses and birth certificates, has agreed to settle Federal...