Darryl André, and three other individual defendants, operating under a host of assumed names, including Premier Card Services, have agreed to settle federal and state charges that they deceptively...

The remaining two defendants sued by the Federal Trade Commission in 1995 as part of "Project Telesweep" -- a nationwide crackdown on business opportunity fraud -- have agreed to settle the federal...

A company that promised fabulous earnings for investors in an Internet website development business has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the FTC’s Franchise Rule. The...

Bogdana Corporation, a Beverly Hills, California company, and its officers, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated health claims in their...

Richard G. Parker has been named Senior Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust arm, the Bureau of Competition. Parker has extensive experience in antitrust and other litigation...

Randolph W. Tritell has been named as the Federal Trade Commission’s Assistant Director for International Antitrust, effective immediately. Tritell, formerly of the law firm of Weil, Gotshal and...

The principal defendant in one of the cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission's "Project $cholar$cam," a nationwide crackdown on fraudulent scholarship search services, has agreed to settle...

James P. Timony has been named Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Federal Trade Commission. Timony, who was appointed as an administrative law judge at the FTC in 1976, also has heard cases for 16...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment about a proposed telephone survey of consumers and their experience with the rent-to-own industry. The request for public comment, which was...

Agreements to ban price advertising for new farm equipment violated federal law, the Federal Trade Commission said today in announcing a settlement with Fastline Publications, Inc., a Kentucky...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on proposed amendments to the Care Labeling Rule, which requires labels to be placed on clothing and certain piece goods indicating instructions...

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

R2D2 is widely known among movie buffs as one of the robots in Star Wars. While power surges could wreak havoc with R2D2's programming, the robot didn’t have to worry about the Y2K problem --...

The Federal Trade Commission today published a proposal regarding the applicability of the Commission's rules and guides to electronic media, including the Internet, e-mail and CD-ROMs. The proposal...

Thousands of consumers throughout the country have attended "seminars" in hotel rooms or other public forums where they are persuaded to invest in fraudulent business opportunities and investments...

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...

Two Bellevue, Washington companies, CRA Champion Credit, Inc. and CRA Financial Services, Inc., and the companies' two principals have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission issued a letter today stating that Internic Software, Inc., an Australian organization copying the official domain name registration services of Network...

In response to a request from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the staff of the Federal Trade Commission today submitted a comment about FERC’s policy conference on independent system...

Mother’s Day is May 10 and it’s a time when many consumers purchase flowers and jewelry as gifts. The Federal Trade Commission has three publications that can help ensure consumers aren’t disappointed...