The FTC announced that online bill payment firm Doxo will pay $2.1 million to settle FTC 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. In a 2024 complaint, the FTC alleged…

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A coalition of 22 states, led by West Virginia AG JB McCuskey, are supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to rewrite how the agency handles the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews. Since 1970, NEPA has required that before the federal government approve or fund a major infrastructure project it must study and…

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A bipartisan alliance of AGs from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina have joined officials and federal agencies from across the Southeast region to launch the Southeast Fraud Enforcement Federal-State Partnership. The Justice Departments National Fraud Enforcement Division announced this new federal-state cooperation agreements with an event that brought together 18…

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The FTC, Utah, and California jointly have 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 further alleging that the company deceives users about their billing and cancellation practices. The complaint alleges that Hims…

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The former CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network Inc. (Celsius), and his business partners Shlomi Daniel Leon and Hanoch “Nuke” Goldstein have been ordered to pay a total of $16.5 million to resolve the FTC’s charges that they deceived users by falsely promising that deposits made to their cryptocurrency platform would be safe and always available.

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