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Every record this desk has filed under ftc, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
Amway will pay $225 million, the largest amount the FTC has ever recovered from a multilevel marketing company. The complaint's key number is smaller: in 2023 the median Amway distributor's bonus was $139 before expenses.
The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Washington filed a complaint and a stipulated order against Amway and two of its largest training organisations, World Wide Group and Leadership Team Development, on September 17. The $225 million settlement is, in the FTC's words, the largest monetary recovery it has obtained against a multilevel marketing company. The complaint says recruits were told they could earn $40,000 a year and were pushed to buy products they were unlikely to resell. Figures in the complaint show that about 1 percent of more than 241,000 distributors made $40,000 or more in bonuses in 2023 and that the median bonus was $139. The order is not yet final: a federal judge in Seattle must sign it. The defendants neither admit nor deny the allegations. Redress details have not been announced, and no one needs to file anything yet.
Also filed underamwaymultilevel-marketingconsumer-protectionearnings-claimswashington
FleetCor, now Corpay, will pay $100 million over fuel-card fees its small-business customers never agreed to. The FTC first sued in 2019; a court found against the company in 2022, and an appeals court upheld that in January.
FleetCor Technologies, which now trades as Corpay, and its chief executive Ronald Clarke agreed to pay $100 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission's administrative case over unauthorized fees on its fuel cards, the FTC announced on September 17. The money is meant for refunds to the company's business customers. It is the money end of a case that is already largely decided: a federal court in Atlanta granted the FTC summary judgment on all five counts in August 2022 and imposed an injunction in June 2023, and the Eleventh Circuit upheld liability against the company in January 2026. The settlement is open for 30 days of public comment once it appears in the Federal Register. The company does not admit the allegations in the administrative complaint, and there is no refund process to apply to yet.
Also filed underfleetcorcorpaysmall-businessfeesconsumer-protectionenforcement
Amazon Prime refunds: a court raised the cap from $51 to $200, millions more people now qualify, and nobody has to file anything. Payments to the new group start October 1 and expire 60 days after they are issued.
A federal court this week approved a revised order in the FTC's 2025 Amazon Prime settlement, the FTC said on September 17. The most any eligible customer can receive rises from $51 to $200, every future payment is automatic, and people who used up to 20 Prime benefits in a year now qualify, where the first round covered those who used fewer than 10. Amazon, which runs the program, begins paying the newly eligible group on October 1 by Venmo, PayPal or mailed check. People already paid may get up to $149 more by April 2027 if not enough payments are accepted by February. More than $845 million has been paid so far. Payments expire 60 days after they are issued, and the FTC is not contacting anyone about these refunds.
Also filed underamazonprimerefundsconsumer-protectionsubscriptions
Beretta wanted up to 25% of Ruger and two seats on its board. The FTC says two seats between competitors is an illegal interlocking directorate, and took the seats away — with 30 days for the public to object.
On September 16 the Federal Trade Commission accepted a proposed consent order resolving antitrust concerns over a stock purchase agreement between Beretta Holding S.A. and Sturm, Ruger & Co. Under the deal Beretta would raise its stake to as much as 25 percent of Ruger's outstanding shares and appoint two members of Ruger's board — which the FTC alleges would create an illegal interlocking directorate under Section 8 of the Clayton Act. The order bars Beretta from causing anyone who is not independent of Beretta to join Ruger's board, requires 15 days' advance written notice before any such appointment, and bars Beretta from hiring or entering financial relationships with an independent director it nominated until a year after that director leaves. The Commission voted 2-0; the public has 30 days to comment.
Also filed underantitrustclayton-actinterlocking-directoratescomment-deadline
A payment processor will pay $12 million. The useful part is the four kinds of merchant it is now banned from touching.
The FTC filed today against 5967 Ventures LLC, trading as Humboldt Merchant Services, alleging it processed payments for more than 1,000 shell merchants fronting for companies running unauthorized billing scams — including Legion Media, which the FTC shut down in 2024. The settlement is $12 million and a permanent ban. The part worth reading is the banned-conduct list: four categories of merchant Humboldt may never process for again, which read together as a description of what a scam storefront looks like from inside a payments company. The complaint also puts a number on the tell — chargebacks at nearly ten times the rate card networks consider excessive — and names two evasion techniques by their industry terms. The order is stipulated and unsigned; the case is pending.
Also filed underpaymentsfraudconsumer-protectionenforcement
August 11 case round: nine receipts entered the record. None of them became a new fact today.
Nine official records Hugin already held now sit in the timelines they should have informed all along: five GAO receipts in the federal improper-payments file, and four CFPB, FTC, and Justice Department receipts in consumer protection. This is a chronology repair, not a claim that the underlying events happened today.
Also filed undercasespublic-recordsgaoimproper-paymentsconsumer-protectioncfpbdojsource-integritytimeline-repair
July 28: the map has to be visible before the argument starts.
Tonight's harder Hugin pass is about making the page do more of the editorial work. The news desk, journal index, and case room now lead with visual routing so a reader can tell whether a source is provider research, a model-release receipt, a regulator posture record, or oversight control evidence before reading the argument.
Also filed underdesigncasesaisecgaosource-mapvisual-organization
July 28 control room: AI work claims, model releases, and fraud controls need a visible map.
Hugin's late July 28 pass turns the daily desk into a source-lane map. OpenAI's Work at the Frontier research, Anthropic's Opus 5 release posture, FTC's AI-accuracy comment window, SEC's retail-fraud working group, and GAO's fraud-risk findings are useful together only when the reader can see which lane each record belongs to.
Also filed underaiopenaianthropicsecgaofraud-risksource-mapevidence-posturecontrol-room
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