The Federal Trade Commission will hold a press conference on Wednesday, December 18, 2002 at 1:00 p.m. EST to announce a consumer protection initiative. Who: Timothy J. Muris, Chairman Federal Trade...

The Commission has approved the filing of a joint brief with the Department of Justice (DOJ), as amici curiae, in the matter of Verizon Communications, Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, No. 02...

An illegal pyramid operation that posed as a legitimate retailing business and recruited "sales representatives" across the country using deceptive representations has been sued by the Federal Trade...

The Commission has approved a settlement regarding the collection of assets being held in an offshore trust in the Cook Islands on behalf of two defendants in Affordable Media, LLC. The settlement has...

A U.S. district court has granted a preliminary injunction halting the operation of Canadian telemarketers who illegally marketed lottery tickets to senior citizens in the United States in violation...

Presenting keynote remarks at an annual conference on "Current Topics in Merger and Antitrust Enforcement" in Washington, DC, today Federal Trade Commission Competition Director Joe Simons announced...

Bruce Turiansky, an officer of Triad Discount Buying Service, Inc. and numerous related companies (Triad), has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he played an integral role in...

On November 13, the Federal Trade Commission and 12 federal, state, and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies announced a four-part initiative to fight deceptive spam and Internet...

A U.S. district court in New York on October 25, 2002 cited Morehead McKim Gallaher Funeral Directors, Inc., and its director, Michael Bannon, with civil contempt for failing to comply with its June...

In a speech today in New York City to the Milton Handler Antitrust Review, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris discussed his philosophy about the appropriate content of the FTC's...

The Federal Trade Commission charged a South Carolina resident using various company names with deceptively marketing his purported envelope stuffing employment opportunities to consumers over the...

A Houston-based defendant that defrauded thousands of consumers nationwide through an advance-fee loan scheme has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC announced today a...

A federal district court has temporarily halted the business practices of a Toronto-based company charged by the Federal Trade Commission with promising consumers a major credit card, and charging an...

The Federal Trade Commission filed suit today against the marketers of the widely advertised product, Body Solutions Evening Weight Loss Formula (Evening Formula). The FTC charged Mark Nutritionals...

Canadian telemarketers whose companies targeted elderly U.S. citizens in a lottery scam have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the schemes violated federal laws. The settlement...

Seminar promoter Wade Cook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he and his companies violated the terms of a federal district court order barring unsubstantiated earnings claims...

Former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has been named this year's recipient of the Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award. Current FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris called Pitofsky "one of the...

What: Press Availability Where: Federal Trade Commission Room 481 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. The room will open at 1:00 to allow for camera set-up. Reporters unable to attend can...

The Commission has approved a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP) (the respondents), to reopen and modify a final consent order...

Operators that allegedly used deceptive spam messages and appeals to patriotism to sell Web addresses that don't work, including ".usa," have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the...