November 10, 2021
A Florida federal judge let a Miami investor and real estate developer out of a Federal Trade Commission trial seeking $100 million from websites that tricked consumers into paying for freely obtainable information, finding that the agency failed to show he knew the websites he backed were doing something illegal.
November 03, 2021
Defendants in a case over a collection of deceptive websites that the Federal Trade Commission says duped consumers out of more than $100 million told a Florida federal judge at the start of a bench trial Wednesday that the agency is overreaching in its damage requests and bid to hold several individuals liable.
September 30, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission has won a judgment against several core defendants who ran a collection of websites the agency says duped consumers out of more than $100 million through fraudulent promises to help with government services, but a Florida federal court released an investment firm and sent several individual defendants to trial.
August 17, 2021
A Florida federal judge has overturned a Federal Trade Commission freeze of $85 million in assets from a man accused of fraudulently promising help with government services after declining the FTC's request to hold him in contempt over knowledge of a court order in a co-defendant's previous scuffle with the agency.