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By Press release submission | Jun 21, 2022
Murray, Cantwell, Casey Call on FTC to Investigate Price Gouging of Infant Formula
By Press release submission | Jun 17, 2022
Chairs Pallone, Scott Urge FTC to Prevent Online Price Gouging of Baby Formula
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chair of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Children and Families, urged...
By Press release submission | May 31, 2022
Wicker Raises Concern Over Chair Khan’s Leadership After Recent FTC Staff Survey
By Press release submission | May 27, 2022
Wicker Raises Concern Over Chair Khan’s Leadership After Recent FTC Staff Survey
By Press release submission | May 27, 2022
Cantwell, Grassley Want New Enforcement Authority for FTC to Fight Unfair Drug Pricing Practices and Provide More Transparency
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced a settlement that, if approved by a federal court, will require Twitter Inc. to pay $150 million in civil penalties and implement robust compliance measures to protect users’ data privacy. The settlement will resolve ...
By Federal Newswire | May 19, 2022
A former employee of the Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been found guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud the United States.
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Cantwell-Led Bill Would Restore FTC Authority to Return Billions to Consumers Ripped off by Scams, Fraud, Deception
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2022
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced that Kohl’s Inc. (Kohl’s) and Walmart Inc. (Walmart) have agreed to pay $2.5 million and $3 million in civil penalties, respectively, in as part of settlements to resolve allegations that Kohl’s and Walmart ...
By Press release submission | May 3, 2022
Commerce Committee Report Underscores Need for Congress to Restore FTC Authority to Return Billions to Consumers Ripped off by Scams, Fraud, Deception
By Press release submission | Apr 15, 2022
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today released the following statement on the nomination of Alvaro M. Bedoya for Federal Trade Commissioner ahead of a Senate vote on a motion to discharge consideration of his nomination from committee and proceed to a floor vote:
By Press release submission | Apr 13, 2022
Several reports have shown deceptive marketing practices push consumers toward junk health plans that lack ACA protections
By Federal Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced that Don C. Richards, aged 53 from Milford, has admitted his involvement in a construction project fraud scheme.
By Press release submission | Mar 30, 2022
U.S. Senate voted to discharge Alvaro Bedoya’s nomination to be a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) out of the Senate Commerce Committee, allowing a confirmation vote to be scheduled. U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, spoke on the Senate floor urging her colleagues to support the motion to ensure the FTC can protect consumers.
By Press release submission | Mar 29, 2022
Senator spoke on Senate floor following Leader Schumer’s motion to move Alvaro Bedoya’s nomination forward Leader Schumer: “I hope anyone who cares about inflation and rising prices and collusion and all kinds of manipulation of those prices….
By Federal Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced that William Sacco, a 49-year-old from Pelham, New Hampshire, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.
By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-RI) issued the following joint statement on the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division's review of corporate merger guidelines
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-RI) issued the following joint statement on the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division's review of corporate merger guidelines...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
A federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has indicted a former manager from a major aerospace engineering company and five executives from outsourcing engineering suppliers.
