Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that Robert James Smith, the owner of National Financial Services ("NFS"), a Baltimore, Maryland, debt collection agency, has paid a penalty of $625,810 to...

An administrative law judge has upheld Federal Trade Commission charges that ads claiming that Doan's pills are more effective in relieving back pain than other over-the-counter pain relievers are...

The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the National Association of Attorneys General today released a "Protocol" for how federal and state agencies will conduct joint and...

According to the terms of a proposed consent order announced today by the Federal Trade Commission, Federal-Mogul, one of the world's leading producers of thinwall bearings used in car, truck and...

Consumers are still being bilked out of millions of dollars by bogus credit repair organizations, the Federal Trade Commission said today as it announced another project in its continuing effort to...

Three businesses that used the allure of the Internet and hi-tech products to peddle fraudulent business opportunity and pyramid scams have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with violating...

In the first law enforcement action targeting fraudulent, unsolicited commercial e-mail -- spam -- the Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal district court judge to permanently prohibit the...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky testified today before the Senate Commerce Committee and presented Commission testimony that addresses advertising, marketing and antitrust issues in...

The Federal Trade Commission said today it will seek federal district court orders to prevent the proposed mergers of the nation's four largest drug wholesalers into two firms. According to the agency...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following entities. The Commission action makes the consent orders...

The Federal Trade Commission today published in the Federal Register final rule amendments to Rule 3.11A, which allows for expedited treatment of certain administrative adjudications before the agency...

Beginning in March, the Federal Trade Commission staff will survey 1,200 commercial Web sites to determine the extent to which these sites, including sites directed to children, are disclosing how...

The world's leading manufacturer of linerboard, a corrugated box component, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it attempted to orchestrate an industry-wide price increase, in...

On February 23, 1998, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins in Los Angeles, California, sentenced Ronald Dante, a defendant in a case stemming from the Federal Trade Commission's "Project Scofflaw,"...

During the second year of the Funeral Rule Offenders Program (FROP), the FTC and state Attorneys General have test-shopped over 300 funeral homes nationwide and found that over 85 percent of the homes...

A proposed settlement of Federal Trade Commission antitrust concerns stemming from Roche Holding Ltd.'s (Roche) proposed acquisition of Corange Limited (Corange) would preserve competition in the U.S...

Rite Aid Corporation has agreed to pay $900,000 in civil penalties for failing to divest three drug stores in Maine and New Hampshire as required by a 1994 order issued by the Federal Trade Commission...

The Federal Trade Commission will join the Securities and Exchange Commission, the North American Securities Administrators Association and a broad alliance of public and private organizations...

Students planning vacation getaways over Spring Break could be taken for a ride if they aren't careful consumers, according to the Federal Trade Commission. A new FTC Fact Sheet, "Avoid A Spring Break...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it was publishing for public comment a proposed consent order with Lawyers Title Corporation (LTC) that would require the company to divest title...