TL;DR A federal court found that Golden Sunrise Nutraceutical, Inc., Golden Sunrise Pharmaceutical, Inc., and operator Huu Tieu deceptively sold products as treatments for COVID-19, cancer, and Parkinson’s disease. (Case No. 1:20-cv-01060-DJC-SKO, E.D. Cal.) The FTC won on summary judgment.…
TL;DR Boeing agreed to acquire Spirit AeroSystems, the world’s largest independent builder of aircraft fuselages and wings, for $8.3 billion total ($8.3 billion — enough to pay a year of rent for over 220,000 families). Spirit builds critical airframe parts…
Valvoline Moves To Eliminate Competition, Consolidate Power TL;DR Valvoline Inc. is attempting to acquire its direct competitor, Oil Changers, a move the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing to block. The FTC complaint alleges this merger will eliminate competition in…
TL;DR Circle K’s parent company, Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (ACT), tried to buy 270 gas stations from Giant Eagle in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The Federal Trade Commission filed a formal complaint on June 25, 2025, charging the deal would illegally…
Antitrust Abuse • Corporate Monopoly • Consumer Markets The Plot to Monopolize Glue Henkel and Loctite tried to swallow Liquid Nails whole. The FTC caught them with their hands in the tube. Published December 2025 • Source: FTC Complaint filed…
TL;DR Gateway Services, the single largest pet cremation company in the United States, locked 1,780 workers into illegal non-compete agreements that barred them from working anywhere in the pet cremation industry for a full year after leaving. These contracts covered…
TL;DR Kubota North America Corporation slapped “Made in USA” labels on products that contained wholly-imported replacement parts, deceiving American consumers and farmers who paid a premium for domestic goods. The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice took…
TL;DR A network of six shell companies and their owners ran a multi-year scheme to charge Americans $9.99–$14.99 per month for text message subscriptions they never signed up for. The operation generated over $62 million (enough to fully fund a…
TL;DR A California tech-support company called NTS IT Care, Inc., run by Jagmeet Singh Virk, ran fake pop-up scams that impersonated Microsoft and Apple to terrify people into paying for fake “virus removal.” The FTC sued and won: courts imposed…
TL;DR Illuminate Education, a company that sold data tools to thousands of K-12 schools, failed to protect the sensitive personal data of more than 10 million children, and the Federal Trade Commission came after them for it. The data Illuminate…