Commission Actions

As gas prices creep higher and higher heading into travel season, the Federal Trade Commission recently conducted an Internet surf to detect and deter the deceptive marketing of products that...

Houston, Texas-based United Recovery Systems, Inc. (URS) has agreed to pay a $240,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to resolve allegations that the company...

La compañía United Recovery Systems, Inc. (URS), con base en Texas, ha acordado en pagar $240,000 en concepto de penalidad civil como parte de un acuerdo con la Comisión Federal de Comercio - FTC...

The Federal Trade Commission staff today announced the results of a sweep of 31 funeral homes in the greater New York City metropolitan area, including Kings, New York, Nassau, and Westchester...

Federal Trade Commissioner Sheila F. Anthony today called on the dietary supplement industry to institute more and better self-regulation and called on the media to refuse to run supplement ads that...

Joseph J. Simons, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, today announced a schedule and agenda for public workshops on merger investigation best practices. The schedule...

In what may be the most far-reaching Federal Trade Commission law enforcement sweep ever against "in-bound" telemarketing fraud - where consumers call companies based on classified ads, Internet...

A press report indicates that Senator Ernest F. Hollings of the Senate Appropriations Committee is considering suspending funding for the salaries of all of the Commissioners and the senior staff of...