Press Releases

A California-based company that sells a sonic toothbrush kit has agreed to pay a $28,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the FTC's Mail or Telephone Order...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The United States Department of Justice, at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, has asked a U.S. District Court judge to stop the allegedly illegal sales practices of magazine telemarketers...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a press conference on Monday , April 15 , at 2:00 p.m. EST to announce federal district court complaints targeting several companies for alleged "in-bound"...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today announced topics, times and locations, and participants for upcoming April and May sessions of their joint...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a press conference on Monday , April 15 , at 2:00 p.m. EST to announce federal district court complaints targeting several companies for alleged "in-bound"...

The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Timothy J. Muris, today testified on behalf of the Commission before the House Appropriation Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the...

Richard Kaylor, an officer of Triad Discount Buying Service, Inc. and numerous related companies, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he misled consumers into accepting discount...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged Consumer Alliance, an operation based in Ontario, Canada, with deceptively marketing worthless credit-card protection programs to U.S. consumers. In addition...

A doctors' group consisting of virtually every obstetrician and gynecologist (OB/GYN) with active medical staff privileges at the two general acute care hospitals in Napa County, California, and its...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved a final consent order in the matter concerning Schering-Plough Corp., et al. (Schering) that settles the Commission's charges against...

Dealers of Multi-Gard "liquid siding" have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads claiming their product provided consumers with an insulation value of R-20 were unsubstantiated...

The Federal Trade Commission has joined eight state law enforcers in the United States and four Canadian agencies in an initiative targeting deceptive spam and Internet fraud. The agencies have...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today announced topics, updated times and locations, and participants for sessions in their joint hearings on...