Announced Actions for July 15, 2003
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Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved the issuance of two final consent orders in the matters concerning Anesthesia Service Medical Group, Inc. and Grossmont Anesthesia...
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Fraudulent Grant-matching Company Settles FTC Charges
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Grant Search, Inc., of Ashland, Oregon, and Grant Pac, Inc., of Sedalia, Missouri, and their principals are banned from selling any product or service that it purports to provide or assist consumers...
Federal Trade Commission Settles Price-Fixing Charges Against Washington University Physician Network
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The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has settled charges that a large physicians’ organization in the St. Louis, Missouri, greater metropolitan area engaged in price-fixing on behalf...
Federal Trade Commission Attacks $1 Billion In Deceptive Health Marketing since December
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of its most recent efforts to crack down on unfounded claims about the benefits and safety of dietary supplements and other health-related...
New Jersey Mail Order Company Settles Allegations It Violated a 1994 FTC Order:
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Lifestyle Fascination, Inc., a New Jersey mail order company that sells a variety of products through print and online catalogs, has agreed to pay a $175,000 civil penalty to settle charges that it...
FTC Bureau of Competition Director Simons Passes Baton
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris today announced the resignation of Joseph J. Simons, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition effective August 1, 2003. Susan Creighton, Deputy...
FTC Supports Legislation to Amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act
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The Federal Trade Commission recommends changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to enhance consumer protection and combat identity theft. In presenting its views before the Senate Committee on...
Marketers of Bloussant Breast Enhancement Product To Stop Making False and Unsubstantiated Claims
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Infomercial marketers Wellquest International, Inc. and Tony Hoffman Productions, Inc. (THPI) and others have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated...
FTC, FDA to Announce Joint Health Care Initiatives
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The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will host a joint press conference to announce their most recent efforts to crack down on misleading claims about the efficacy of...
Spam Testimony to Take Place Today
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The FTC Calendar incorrectly identified Testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection and Telecommunications and the Internet as an...
FTC Approves Filing of Antitrust Complaints Against Associations in Three States
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the issuance of three complaints against associations in Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi. These matters concern the collective filing by competing...
FTC Supports Legislation to Amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act
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The Federal Trade Commission recommends changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to enhance consumer protection and combat identity theft. In presenting its views before the House Committee on...
FTC Charges San Francisco's Brown & Toland Medical Group with Price-Fixing
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The Federal Trade Commission today issued an administrative complaint against California Pacific Medical Group, Inc., doing business as Brown & Toland, a San Francisco, California physicians'...
Electronic Payment Processor Halted from Facilitating Fraudulent Telemarketing Transactions
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The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in U.S. district court charging Electronic Financial Group, Inc. (EFG) and its principals with providing assistance to fraudulent telemarketers...
Announced Actions for July 8, 2003
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Commission authorization of the staff to file amended complaint: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the case currently pending against Patrick Cella, et al., CV-03...
No Simple Solution to The Spam Problem, FTC Tells Congress
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The Federal Trade Commission told Congress today that there is no simple solution to solve the problem of spam. Speaking before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittees on Commerce...
FTC Charges Internet Mall Is a Pyramid Scam
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of an Internet-based business opportunity that promised substantial income to participants in an Internet shopping mall network with operating an...
FTC Halts Bogus Cross-Border Lottery Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U.S. District Court to shut down the operation of a cross-border con artist who targeted elderly U.S. citizens in a bogus foreign lottery scheme. The...
FTC: E-commerce Lowers Prices, Increases Choices in Wine Market
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A Federal Trade Commission staff report released today concludes that e-commerce offers consumers lower prices and more choices in the wine market, and that states could expand e-commerce by...
Georgia Business Opportunities Company Settles Federal Charges
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Merchant Payment Solutions (MPS) and its principal, Steven Todd Knight, have agreed to settle charges that they violated federal laws by operating and promoting a fraudulent business opportunity. In...
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