Press Releases

In an ongoing campaign to stamp out bogus business opportunities, the Federal Trade Commission has settled charges with four operations the agency charged with making deceptive earnings claims or...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris today announced that Ann Malester, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition, is leaving the FTC and entering private practice. “During Ann’s...

Three Canadian telemarketing companies that operated boiler rooms in Quebec and Ontario are banned from selling directories or non-durable office supplies as part of a settlement with the Federal...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today requested that any person who submitted electronic comments regarding the agencies’ joint antitrust hearings on Health Care and...

Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice announcing changes in the two threshold figures that define when it is unlawful for an...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the creation of a hotline for consumers who believe they were victims of an alleged Web “cramming” scam operated by National Online Services, Inc., Liberty...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted $23.5 million to settle charges that Certified Merchant Services (CMS) violated the FTC Act while providing merchants with credit-card payment services. The...

By a 3-1-1 vote, the Federal Trade Commission today closed its investigation into Genzyme Corporation's (Genzyme) 2001 acquisition of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Novazyme). At the time of its...

Commission approval of petition to reopen and modify FTC consent order: The Commission has approved a petition from Wright Medical Technology, Inc. (Wright) to reopen and modify a 1994 consent order...

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding the application of U.S. Futures Exchange, L.L.C. (USFE) for contract market designation...

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will announce the top 10 consumer complaint categories on Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. EST. The report includes fraud and identity theft complaint...

Issuance of staff advisory opinion: Staff of the Commission’s Bureau of Competition has issued an advisory opinion at the request of Dunlap Memorial Hospital (Dunlap) in Orrville, Ohio, addressing...

A federal district court has shut down two defendants who used stolen identities to sell nonexistent goods in online auctions, making it appear that innocent third parties were guilty of fraud. The...

A federal district court has entered a temporary restraining order enjoining the owners of a nationwide telemarketing operation from making misrepresentations to consumers when marketing credit...

The Federal Trade Commission has published a notice describing the types of agreements that brand-name pharmaceutical and generic drug manufacturers must file with the FTC and the U.S. Department of...

- The Commission has approved the release of its annual report on the Truth in Lending, Consumer Leasing, Equal Credit Opportunity, and Electronic Fund Transfer Acts. The vote to approve the release...

Issuance of joint FTC/Federal Reserve Board staff letter: The Commission staff and the staff of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) have issued a joint letter regarding the...

Filing of Commission complaint: The Commission has approved the filing of a complaint against Vinyard Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Comfort Castle Enterprises, a Florida corporation; Sunshine Advertising &...

By a 5-0 vote, the Federal Trade Commission today closed its investigation of Sunoco, Inc.’s (Sunoco) proposed acquisition of the El Paso Corporation’s Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company (Coastal). As...

The Federal Trade Commission staff today announced the results of a sweep of 29 funeral homes in the greater New York City metropolitan area, including Kings County in New York and Fairfield County in...