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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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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The Delaware Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in Swan Energy, Inc., Brandon Davis, John Schiffner, and Cody Davis v. Investor Protection Unit of Delaware Department of Justice dismissing constitutional challenges to the Delaware Department of Justice’s administrative process for enforcing alleged violations. The Delaware Investor Protection Unit (Unit) of the Delaware Department…

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A U.S. district court in California has temporarily halted an allegedly deceptive mortgage assistance relief operation by National Amendment Assistance, which claimed it can provide mortgage relief assistance under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES). FTC alleged that the mortgage assistance relief operator and related entities allegedly misled consumers into paying unlawful upfront…

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Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti reached an $11.1 million settlement with Mariner Finance resolving allegations that the company violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act and other consumer protection laws through deceptive lending practices and hidden add-on products. As previously reported, Tennessee was part of a bipartisan coalition of AGs that sued Mariner over its lending practices,…

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