Antitrust / Firearms Industry The FTC says a stock deal would have put Beretta’s picks inside the boardroom of a direct competitor. Under a proposed settlement, any director Beretta nominates must be independent of it, and Beretta admits no violation.…
Payment Processing / FTC Enforcement The Federal Trade Commission alleges that Nuvei and its subsidiaries helped the Reimage tech support operation spread out its chargebacks, hide its operators, and keep taking card payments, even after Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft, and the…
FTC Sues Hims for Charging Patients Without Consent and Selling Health Data to Facebook TL;DR Hims charged hundreds of thousands of consumers for prescription medication subscriptions without obtaining their express informed consent. The company promised “free consultations” but enrolled consumers…
Investigation / Antitrust / Federal Trade Commission Docket C-4824 The 25-Town Oil-Change Squeeze Valvoline tried to buy out a rival quick-lube chain owned by private equity. The FTC found the deal would have handed one company dominant control of oil…
TL;DR Oak Street Bootmakers, a Chicago-based footwear brand, charged customers premium prices for shoes it marketed as “Made in USA” and “More than Made in USA” while secretly manufacturing uppers in the Dominican Republic and sourcing outsoles from Brazil, starting…
FTC v. Rollins, Inc. // Section 5, FTC Act The Federal Trade Commission charged Rollins, Inc. with running a blanket non-compete regime across its 700-plus U.S. locations. The FTC’s own complaint documents how it worked: every new hire signed, nobody…
EvilCorporations.com / Investigation TL;DR The Federal Trade Commission and eight states sued the three biggest US ad-buying companies, Dentsu, WPP Media (GroupM), and Publicis, accusing them of secretly agreeing to stop competing over which news sites their clients’ ads could…
EvilCorporations.com / Antitrust Files The company that already runs most of America’s workplace mini-marts tried to buy its only real competitor. The Federal Trade Commission stepped in. Here is who the deal was built to squeeze, in the government’s own…
Investigation · Consumer Deception They Sold China As America A flagpole company stamped “100% Made in USA” on products built entirely from Chinese parts, kept selling them after a federal warning, then settled for a fraction of the harm and…
The Passive-Income Dream Had a Price Tag: The FTC Case Against Publishing.com FTC Matter No. 242-3055. Respondents: Publishing.com, LLC (f/k/a PublishingLife.com, LLC) of Austin, Texas; Christian Mikkelsen, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer; Rasmus Mikkelsen, co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Consent…