February 24, 2022
Payment processing company iStream and its top brass told a Georgia federal judge Thursday that they have agreed to pay $2.3 million to the Federal Trade Commission and cooperate in the agency's investigation of its clients, some of which are accused of charging payday loan applicants upward of $43 million in illegal fees.
December 21, 2021
A Georgia federal judge challenged the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday during a hearing on a $43 million consumer deception case, questioning whether the agency can rely on complaints by short-term loan applicants allegedly charged fees for a coupon club membership they didn't want.
April 09, 2021
A group of telemarketers told a Georgia federal judge that the Federal Trade Commission's $43 million case against them over payday loans and a discount club is "riddled with deficiencies" and based on unreliable and inadmissible consumer complaints rather than facts.
February 09, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday argued a group of marketers has failed to offer any factual or legal defense to allegations that they bilked thousands of consumers out of more than $43 million by covertly signing them up for a bogus discount club.
March 20, 2020
A Georgia federal court refused to stay discovery Friday because of the coronavirus "national emergency" in a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing marketers of bilking consumers out of $43 million by secretly signing them up for bogus discount club memberships.
October 17, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission's power to punish past conduct involving consumer fraud or anti-competitive shenanigans is looking wobbly after a one-two punch of court decisions forcing the agency to also identify imminent or ongoing violations when it challenges prior behavior.
April 17, 2018
A Georgia federal judge rejected efforts by several marketers to escape the Federal Trade Commission’s litigation accusing them of bilking consumers out of $43 million by secretly signing them up for bogus discount club memberships, saying the agency has sufficiently alleged the purported scheme and the suit isn’t barred by previous litigation.
October 31, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday asked a Georgia federal court to deny several marketers' request to dismiss a suit accusing them of scamming consumers out of $42 million by secretly signing them up for bogus memberships, arguing that the complaint has pled more than enough facts to demonstrate liability.
October 17, 2017
Several marketers accused by the Federal Trade Commission of bilking consumers out of more than $42 million by signing them up for bogus memberships in online discount clubs without their permission told a Georgia federal court Monday that there is not enough evidence to support the agency's claims.
August 16, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission launched a suit in Georgia federal court Tuesday accusing a group of marketers of bilking scores of consumers out of more than $42 million by signing them up for bogus memberships in a trio of online discount clubs without their permission.