November 07, 2018
Matthew G. Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump appointed acting attorney general Wednesday after firing Jeff Sessions, served as a board member at a so-called invention promotion company that the Federal Trade Commission shut down last year on allegations that it "bilked millions from consumers."
October 31, 2017
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday struck several defenses asserted by the operators of an invention-promotion company that allegedly duped consumers out of about $26 million, a day after the Federal Trade Commission asked the court to also compel them to participate in discovery and mediation.
August 17, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary injunction Wednesday against the operators of an invention-promotion company that allegedly duped consumers out of about $26 million, as the judge found proof of material misrepresentations and a likelihood the government will prevail on the merits.
June 08, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission has revised claims against the operators of an alleged invention-promotion scheme that involved duping consumers out of millions of dollars by falsely promising to help monetize their creations and suppressing complaints from scammed customers, the agency said Thursday.