Press Releases

Operators of a Web-based computer auction business that delivered the computers to the winning bidders late or not at all have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their business...

A Web site operator who advertised free membership, then connected consumers' computers to her server using a "dialer" program that disconnected them from their Internet Service Provider and...

An Internet adult entertainment operation that billed some consumers by rerouting their connection to the Net through the foreign country of Madagascar, causing the unwitting consumers to incur...

Consent agreement given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement regarding the following: Value Vision International, Inc. The Commission...

After conducting a detailed investigation of the proposed merger of AmeriSource Health Corporation and Bergen Brunswig Corporation, the Federal Trade Commission has voted to close the matter and to...

Spammers who collected consumers' personal identifying information, including credit card information, by telling them they had to supply the data or lose access to the Internet have agreed to settle...

Liverite Products, Inc., based in Tustin, California, its two principals, and two other individuals agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made numerous unsubstantiated claims in...

Applications for proposed divestiture: The Commission has received an application for a proposed divestiture from the following: Hoechst AG, Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (renamed Aventis S.A.) . The application...

Commission authorization to file amended complaint: The Commission has authorized staff to file an amended complaint regarding the following: First Alliance Mortgage Companies and First Alliance...

Three operators of an Internet-based business opportunity that promised easy income for investors in an Internet shopping mall network have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their...

In an action brought against a company that target-marketed its travel packages primarily through unsolicited faxes, the Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement that will bar Resorts...

Recently appointed Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris told a gathering of attorneys that they should expect continuity with the previous administration in antitrust enforcement at the...

A U.S. District Judge has held Richard Murkey, his company Credit Restoration Corporation of America, Inc. (CRCA), and Keith Gill in civil contempt for violating the court's November 1999 final order...

WHAT: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris will address the American Bar Association's 124th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Chairman Muris' speech is titled: "Antitrust Enforcement at the...

Companies that illegally "crammed" unauthorized charges for a variety of services onto consumers' telephone bills and claimed that consumers had to pay the charges, even though they neither purchased...

Pursuant to the consent order in the following matter, the Commission has granted prior approval of a proposed divestiture and approved Hold Separate and Trustee Agreements: Lafarge S.A./Blue Circle...

Vocational Guides, Inc. (VGI) and its president, Timothy Scott Jackson, are permanently banned from promoting or selling employment services, and will pay approximately $191,600 in disgorgement and...

The Federal Trade Commission today met in closed session to consider an enforcement action to authorize staff to seek a preliminary injunction against PepsiCo's proposed acquisition of the Quaker Oats...

Natural Organics, Inc., based in Melville, New York, and its president, Gerald Kessler, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made unsubstantiated claims that their dietary...

The Federal Trade Commission today charged Warner Communications, Inc., and several subsidiaries of Vivendi Universal S.A., with illegally agreeing to fix prices for audio and video products featuring...