Press Releases

The defendants in a massive scheme to sell Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) licenses as "low risk, high return" investments have agreed to settle Federal Trade...

The federal government should wait and see whether private industry solutions adequately respond to consumer concerns about privacy and billing dispute resolution issues that arise with the growth of...

The Federal Trade Commission has approved as final a consent agreement with Exxon Corporation that has triggered the launch of a massive consumer education and advertising campaign. The campaign is...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement agreement in connection with the merger of Jitney-Jungle Stores of America, Inc. and Delchamps, Inc. that the agency says will keep supermarket...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it will hold a second round of hearings on its Joint Venture Project during November 1997. The hearings, as well as public comments, will allow the...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The FTC has...

Stillwater Vending Limited, Global Locating Services, Inc., and their principals, Joel and Jeffrey Salvatore, are the latest targets of the Federal Trade Commission’s crackdown on bogus business...

National Invention Services, Inc., of Cranford, New Jersey, and its president and CEO, John F. Lee, are required by court order to disclose that none of the nearly 1,000 clients who signed up for...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction. The FTC is seeking...

Consumers will receive better information about the tar and nicotine yields of their cigarettes if proposed changes to the Federal Trade Commission's cigarette test method are adopted. The FTC test...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has named Debra A. Valentine to be the FTC’s first female General Counsel, the Commission’s chief legal officer and adviser. Valentine was most...

Applications for Approval of Transactions: The FTC has shortened the comment period to 15 days on the application to approve a transaction from the following entity. The Commission is seeking comments...

A Virginia telemarketer, S.J.A. Society, Inc., and two principals will be ordered to pay $88,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used fraud and deception in their magazine...

The second largest condom manufacturer in the United States, London International, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its ads claiming that Ramses brand condoms are thirty...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The FTC has...

Applications for Approval of Transactions: The FTC has received an application to approve a transaction from the following entity. The Commission is seeking comments on the application for 30 days...

A federal district court in St. Louis, Missouri, has issued an order banning Joseph and Thelma Hayes and Automated Guest Directories, Inc. from marketing or helping others to market any business...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted for public comment an agreement with Insilco Corporation settling FTC charges that its acquisition of Helima-Helvetion's aluminum tube manufacturing...

Seven individuals and four corporations -- collectively called the Urso Group -- that ran a display-rack business opportunity for greeting cards and perfumes have been charged by the Federal Trade...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following. The FTC is seeking public comments on the application for 30 days...