Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission said today that the Telemarketing Sales Rule implemented by the Commission will be a “strong new weapon in the arsenal against demand draft fraud and telemarketing fraud...

Two Seattle-based companies and their owners, Kurt Tripp and Ngoc Ly, have settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that they falsely represented Native American-style carvings as authentic Native...

The Federal Trade Commission will allow clothing manufacturers and other marketers to use the name “lyocell” in the fiber content labels they are required by law to place in garments and other textile...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has reached settlements in two more of the 34 cases it filed last July as part of “Project Telesweep,” a federal-state crackdown on deceptively...

If telemarketers who promise to help consumers “clean up” their credit records ask for any money up front, they’re breaking the law. Moreover, they can’t do what they promise, if the information in...

Keith Parker, president of Desert Financial Group (DFG), a Las Vegas company, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely told consumers -- most of them senior citizens --...

Ford Motor Company and its advertising agency, Young & Rubicam, Inc., have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims about the extent to which Ford’s MicronAir...

The Federal Trade Commission staff has advised the American Medical Association (AMA) that its proposal to disseminate to the public information relating to proposed revisions to Medicare’s resource...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an...

Zygon International, Inc., a Redmond, Washington-based company that marketed the "Learning Machine" and other products, has agreed to settle deceptive advertising charges brought by the Federal Trade...

As part of its ongoing periodic review of its rules and guides and in keeping with the objective to eliminate obsolete or unnecessary regulatory requirements, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking...

As part of its ongoing periodic review of its rules and guides and in keeping with the objective to eliminate obsolete or unnecessary regulatory requirements, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking...

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed to repeal its 1964 Used Oil Rule as unnecessarily duplicative. The agency said the rule has been pre-empted in large part by the FTC’s Recycled Oil Rule...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has distributed funds out of a $292,500 redress account to 2,682 consumers across the nation who were victimized as part of a telemarketing scheme...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for prior approval of a divestiture from the...

New York City-based women’s clothing manufacturer, Double Z Manufacturing, Inc., has agreed to pay a $50,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it put faulty care labeling...

The Federal Trade Commission is streamlining the merger enforcement process to enhance the effectiveness of provisions designed to restore competition, according to William J. Baer, Director of the...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated a settlement with Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) under which the firm will pay a $2.97 million civil penalty for failing to include key competitive...

The Federal Trade Commission in the last 13 months has continued to work hand-in-hand with other state and federal law enforcers, participating with them in a variety of enforcement “sweeps” and task...

The Federal Trade Commission has announced changes in the two threshold figures that define when it is unlawful for an individual to serve as an officer or director of two or more competing...