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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACTIONS
08-18-2026 - The Federal Trade Commission sued to block Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Henkel), the manufacturer of the industry-leading Loctite brand construction adhesives, from acquiring Loctite’s main competitor, Liquid Nails. The FTC alleges that the merger would eliminate fierce competition between Loctite and Liquid Nails, leading to higher prices, lower quality, and reduced innovation, all of which would be detrimental to American consumers.
08-17-2026 - Online bill payment firm Doxo will pay $2.1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company and two of its co-founders used misleading search ads to impersonate consumers’ billers and misled consumers about millions of dollars in fees they tacked on to consumers’ bills. Planning to pay a bill online? Before you start searching for a company’s payment site, know that dishonest companies sometimes use paid search ads to trick you into paying them instead of the company or agency you’re looking for. o how can you make sure you’re going to the real payment site? Scroll past the paid search results to help make sure you have the right website or contact info. Type the company’s website address (if you know it) directly into your browser to find the right payment site.
08-12-2026 - The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling more than $23.8 million to drivers harmed by Grubhub’s deceptive earnings claims and diners harmed by the company’s misleading and unlawful conduct. In December 2024, the FTC and the Illinois Attorney General alleged that food delivery company Grubhub engaged in an array of unlawful practices including deceiving drivers about how much money they would make delivering food, blocking diners from their accounts and funds, and unfairly and deceptively listing restaurants on its platform without their permission. Under the settlement terms, Grubhub was ordered to make substantial changes to its operations across several areas, including honestly advertising pay for drivers, providing users with a mechanism to dispute blocked accounts, and listing restaurants on its platform only with their consent.
08-10-2026 - From the FTC Website - At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has temporarily halted a bogus credit repair scheme run by a sprawling network of 17 related companies and their principals. - The FTC’s complaint alleges that, since at least 2016, Credit Glory, a network of 16 related entities and their five principals (Alexander Brola, Liam Emery, Marko Petkovic, Joshua Curtis and David Naylor), made false and misleading promises about their credit repair services, impersonated debt collection companies and creditors, collected illegal upfront fees and engaged in unlawful subscription enrollment practices. The operation scammed consumers out of nearly $200 million through unlawful up-front and recurring charges.
07-29-2026 - FTC and States Act Against Hims & Hers for Deceptive and Unlawful Privacy Practices - Complaint alleges telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information with third-party advertising platforms despite promising patient privacy - The Federal Trade Commission, joined by Utah and California, by and through Los Angeles County Counsel, today sued Hims & Hers alleging that the telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information about medical conditions with third-party advertising platforms despite claiming its services maintain consumers’ privacy and deceives users about its billing and cancellation practices.
07-21-2026 - Student Loan Forgiveness Scammer Permanently Banned from Debt Relief Industry and Telemarketing - Dennise Merdjanian, an operator of a student loan debt forgiveness scheme, will be permanently banned from the debt relief industry and telemarketing under a proposed order resolving the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that she and other operators took more than $45.9 million from consumers as part of their illegal student loan debt relief operation. In November 2024, the Commission sued Nevada-based Superior Servicing LLC and Merdjanian alleging they pretended to be affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education and falsely promised student loan forgiveness, bilking millions from student loan borrowers. A federal court temporarily halted the scheme and froze its assets at the request of the FTC. In early 2025, the FTC filed an amended complaint adding several other companies and two scheme operators, Eric Caldwell and David Hernandez, as defendants.
07-20-2026 - Founders of Celsius Network Ordered to Pay $16.5 Million to Resolve FTC Charges - Proposed orders also ban defendants from marketing or selling products or services that can be used to deposit or withdraw assets Alexander Mashinsky, the former CEO of cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network Inc. (Celsius), and his business partners, Shlomi Daniel Leon and Hanoch “Nuke” Goldstein, will pay a total of $16.5 million to resolve the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that they deceived users by falsely promising that deposits made to their cryptocurrency platform would be safe and always available.
07-18-2026 - The FTC filed a lawsuit against the three largest prescription drug benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark Rx, Express Scripts (ESI), and OptumRx—and their affiliated group purchasing organizations (GPOs) for engaging in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin drugs. On February 4, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission secured a landmark settlement with Express Scripts, Inc., and its affiliated entities (collectively “ESI”). The settlement requires ESI to adopt fundamental changes to its business practices that increase transparency, are expected to drive down patients’ out-of-pocket costs for drugs like insulin by up to $7 billion over 10 years, bring millions of dollars in new revenue to community pharmacies each year, and advance the Trump Administration’s key healthcare priorities.
07-15-2026 - FTC Approves Final Order Against TruHeight for Deceptive and Unsubstantiated Advertising of Supplements for Kids and Teens - The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with Vanilla Chip LLC—which does business as TruHeight—and its two principals requiring them to pay $750,000, while barring them from making false or unsupported health claims and using fake or incentivized consumer reviews.
07-07-2026 - The Federal Trade Commission is sending checks totaling more than $2.7 million to eligible consumers harmed by gig economy company Handy Technologies’ deceptive claims about how much workers on its platform could earn. In January 2025, the FTC and the New York Attorney General took action against Handy—which currently does business as Angi Services—for allegedly using advertisements with earnings claims that didn’t reflect the reality for the overwhelming majority of workers on the platform. Handy also failed to clearly disclose fees and fines that led to millions of dollars being withheld from workers’ wages, according to the complaint filed by the FTC. The FTC is sending checks to 62,893 consumers who were charged for eligible fees and fines. Recipients should cash their checks within 90 days, as indicated on the check. Consumers who have questions about their payment should contact the refund administrator, Simpluris Inc., at 833-647-9063, or visit the FTC website