E85B7FEDPublic record case file · Updated Oct 2, 2026
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A procedural notice (FR Doc. 2026-20296) went on Federal Register public inspection and is scheduled to print October 5. It opens a virtual hearing at 10 a.m. Eastern on October 21 for oral comments on the lithium-ion battery proposal the Commission printed in June, an opportunity section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act requires it to offer; requests to present, with the written text of the presentation, and pre-registration are due by 5 p.m. Eastern on October 15, and each presentation is limited to five minutes. The Commission voted 3-0 to publish the notice and says it received requests to present, without saying how many. The notice carries no rule text, no list of covered products and no incident figures: it is a hearing announcement, not a new or revised proposal. The June proposal had set its own deadline for requests to present at July 24; this notice sets a later one, and this desk records both rather than reconciling them.
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The FTC announced a proposed stipulated consent decree, filed the same day in the Central District of California, resolving the price-discrimination suit it brought against Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC in December 2024 - the Commission's first Robinson-Patman enforcement action in a generation, by its own description. The order targets 'paired' transactions in which Southern Glazer's sells a product to a chain retailer while contemporaneously selling the same product to a nearby independent retailer at a significantly higher price. Once $5,000 of aggregated excess payments to one covered retailer accumulate within a 12-month reporting period, the company may cure by paying that retailer 1.5 times the full differential within 60 days of notice, and must pay twice the differential if it declines to cure and the Commission then prevails in an enforcement action. A Commission-appointed, jointly selected monitor oversees compliance; the order covers the five largest chain retailers in 26 states, expires six years after entry, and records that the company denies the allegations. The Commission vote was 2-0.
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The Commission, the State of Nevada and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection filed a civil complaint in the District of Nevada against Lens.com, Inc., its affiliate Speed Commerce, LLC and Cary Samourkachian, pleaded as sole owner of both. It alleges the companies advertise low per-box prices in Google search ads and on lens.com, then add a mandatory 'Taxes & fees' line item below the viewable part of an interim checkout screen, so a consumer who clicks a prominent 'Continue' button never sees it; in a February 2026 example the complaint pleads a $146.32 advertised eight-box order that came to a $649.71 charge after a $273.44 'Taxes & fees' amount and $9.95 shipping. It alleges the label is misleading because many states exempt contact lenses from sales tax or levy none, that the same prices were used to enroll consumers in the 'AutoRefill' negative-option plan without clearly disclosing that charge, the renewal date, the total cost or how to cancel, and that the practices continued after the Commission's August 2025 Civil Investigative Demand. Counts are pleaded under Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, Section 4 of ROSCA, Section 521 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and three state statutes; the plaintiffs seek a permanent injunction and monetary relief, with civil penalties sought by the states. The Commission vote was 2-0.
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Runs the federal health insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov and registers the agents and brokers who enroll consumers in it.
1 source record · 1 linked eventRead role →Publishes consumer financial complaint data and enforcement-action records.
2 source records · 1 linked eventRead role →Publishes civil enforcement and fraud press records that can anchor consumer-protection and contractor-fraud review.
3 source records · 3 linked eventsRead role →Publishes communications-enforcement orders, notices, forfeiture orders, and consent decrees.
1 source record · 1 linked eventRead role →Publishes FDA-regulated product recall pages and openFDA enforcement report APIs.
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3 source records · 3 linked eventsRead role →Publishes public breach portal rows for unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals.
1 source record · 1 linked eventRead role →Publishes vehicle, tire, car-seat, and equipment recall and safety-complaint records.
1 source record · 1 linked eventRead role →Publishes retail-fraud program records and litigation releases for investor-protection review.
2 source records · 2 linked eventsRead role →Brings civil enforcement actions over commodity, futures, and retail foreign-currency fraud, including pool schemes sold to the public.
1 source record · 1 linked eventRead role →Publishes consumer product recall records and machine-readable recall API data.
2 source records · 1 linked eventRead role →No single record names more than one role in this file yet.
Official CFPB database of consumer financial product and service complaints, with browser exploration, exports, and API access.
Official CFPB enforcement-action portal with court documents and related materials for Bureau actions.
The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Cash FX Group S.A. and its CEO, The Conversion Pros, Inc. and its CEO, and one other individual. The complaint alleges they ran a multilevel marketing Ponzi scheme that took in over $950 million from the public for purported retail foreign-currency trading in a commodity pool, and that participants lost at least $406 million.
CMS Open Payments data portal and API for publicly accessible payment, ownership, and transfer-of-value records reported by drug and medical-device companies.
CPSC page documenting REST access to machine-readable recall data for publicly available product recall information visible on cpsc.gov.
DOJ record announcing coordinated non-prosecution agreements with Alibaba and AUS Merchant Services that resolve defined FDCA-related marketplace and payment-processing conduct with $600 million in combined penalties and forfeitures.
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51 recorded events · Feb 9, 2026 — Oct 2, 2026
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A procedural notice (FR Doc. 2026-20296) went on Federal Register public inspection and is scheduled to print October 5. It opens a virtual hearing at 10 a.m. Eastern on October 21 for oral comments on the lithium-ion battery proposal the Commission printed in June, an opportunity section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act requires it to offer; requests to present, with the written text of the presentation, and pre-registration are due by 5 p.m. Eastern on October 15, and each presentation is limited to five minutes. The Commission voted 3-0 to publish the notice and says it received requests to present, without saying how many. The notice carries no rule text, no list of covered products and no incident figures: it is a hearing announcement, not a new or revised proposal. The June proposal had set its own deadline for requests to present at July 24; this notice sets a later one, and this desk records both rather than reconciling them.
The FTC announced a proposed stipulated consent decree, filed the same day in the Central District of California, resolving the price-discrimination suit it brought against Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC in December 2024 - the Commission's first Robinson-Patman enforcement action in a generation, by its own description. The order targets 'paired' transactions in which Southern Glazer's sells a product to a chain retailer while contemporaneously selling the same product to a nearby independent retailer at a significantly higher price. Once $5,000 of aggregated excess payments to one covered retailer accumulate within a 12-month reporting period, the company may cure by paying that retailer 1.5 times the full differential within 60 days of notice, and must pay twice the differential if it declines to cure and the Commission then prevails in an enforcement action. A Commission-appointed, jointly selected monitor oversees compliance; the order covers the five largest chain retailers in 26 states, expires six years after entry, and records that the company denies the allegations. The Commission vote was 2-0.
The FTC's advance notice of proposed rulemaking on platforms' ad-optimization services and impersonation scams (FR Doc. 2026-20143, RIN 3084-AB90) was filed for public inspection and is scheduled for Federal Register publication on October 1. Comments are due 60 days after publication, a date the printed notice will fix; counted from an October 1 printing, that is November 30. Online comments go through Regulations.gov, marked '16 CFR Part 461--Impersonation Rule, Matter No. R207000'. The notice asks questions and contains no rule text; it says any provision it considers 'will focus on ad-optimization practices by digital marketplace platforms', narrower than the means-and-instrumentalities provision the Commission set aside in December 2024.
The SEC filed a civil complaint in the Southern District of New York against Meyer Global Management LLC and its CEO, Owen E.H. Meyer. It alleges they raised at least $18.5 million from nearly 100 investors in about 16 funds meant to hold SpaceX, OpenAI and other pre-IPO interests, and in five schemes since December 2021 breached their fiduciary duties: misappropriating at least $1,270,000 in three of them, diverting $686,636 of a receiver's wire meant for investors, about $636,406 of it to Meyer's personal account, and letting a SpaceX fund forfeit its stake over an unpaid capital call, then telling its investors to 'stay tuned' for share distributions. The SEC seeks injunctions, disgorgement, civil penalties and a bar on Meyer associating with any broker, dealer or investment adviser, and demands a jury trial.
The FTC announced a proposed stipulated order, filed September 25, resolving its and 12 states' 2022 claims that Corteva's post-patent loyalty program paid distributors to block competitors from selling cheaper generic pesticides to farmers. For 10 years the order would bar Corteva from conditioning distributor payments on buying more than 50% of an active ingredient from it, from capping generic purchases, and from related exclusionary terms, across all its post-patent active ingredients. Corteva would pay the state plaintiffs $35 million and does not admit the allegations. The Commission vote was 2-0, and the case against Syngenta continues.
Ford's recall 26V578 (26S69) covers certain 2023-2027 F-150s whose fuel tank may be improperly secured and leak fuel or detach while driving, creating a road hazard and a risk of stall or fire. It reaches only trucks that were unsold or had less than three months in service on August 27. Dealers will inspect and replace the tank straps as needed at no charge. Owner letters were mailed September 21, and NHTSA posted the mailed remedy letter on September 27.
Mercedes-Benz USA's recall 26V481 covers certain 2019-2026 A-Class, C-Class, CLA, CLE, GLA, GLB and GLC vehicles whose driver door-lock micro-switch may corrode and fail to detect an open door, so the electronic parking brake or Auto-Park may not engage and the vehicle may roll away. Dealers will replace the lock at no charge. On September 27 NHTSA posted two mailed owner letters, both dated September 18: an interim letter saying the remedy is not yet available and a remedy letter saying it is. The only parts release this desk found in the file, a September 11 notice to dealers, covers 3,504 vehicles.
The CFTC announced a complaint, filed the day before in the Middle District of Florida, alleging Cash FX Group and related defendants ran a multilevel-marketing Ponzi scheme. The complaint says they took in over $950 million for purported forex pool trading with promised weekly returns of up to 15%, and that participants lost at least $406 million.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced an indictment charging Kristopher Lunsford with six counts of wire fraud and two of money laundering over semi-truck lease investments that promised weekly payouts, and seeking forfeiture of $105,940,214.93. The indictment was returned September 23, the day before the SEC filed its settled civil action. It alleges more than $105 million was solicited between about December 2023 and May 2025, about $75 million went to pay earlier investors, over $25 million to personal enrichment and about $2 million to business operations. The SEC's action reports different totals over a different period, and neither agency explains the gap.
The Eastern District of Virginia announced that all eleven defendants in a scheme that, since at least January 2023, used deceit and intimidation in public places to obtain credit union members' mobile devices and then made unauthorized loan applications, disputes, transfers and withdrawals have been sentenced. Seven pleaded guilty to wire-fraud offenses and four to money-laundering conspiracy; sentences range from four months to three years and six months, the last imposed September 24.
Of the eleven recalls the CPSC recalls API returned for September 24, five exceed 20,000 units. They are about 51,000 reclining-chair battery packs (four overheating reports), about 48,405 mattresses that violate the flammability standard, about 43,674 light-up toys with accessible button batteries, about 25,073 dressers that violate the STURDY Act tip-over standard, and about 21,380 power banks with nine explosion or ignition reports including one $2 million fire. Remedies range from refunds and replacements to retrofit kits.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Federal Register public-inspection copy)
A procedural notice, filed for public inspection October 2, 2026 at 8:45 a.m. Eastern and scheduled to print October 5, setting a virtual CPSC hearing for oral comments on the already-published micromobility lithium-ion battery NPRM. The hearing is at 10 a.m. Eastern on October 21, 2026; requests to present, with the written text of the presentation, and pre-registration are due by 5 p.m. Eastern on October 15, 2026; each presentation is limited to five minutes. The notice says section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act requires the Commission to offer an opportunity for oral presentation, that it received requests to present, and that oral comments become part of the rulemaking record.
Federal Trade Commission (filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California)
The 28-page proposed stipulated consent decree filed October 2, 2026 before Judge Fred W. Slaughter. It recites that the Commission sued under Section 2 of the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act and Section 5 of the FTC Act, and that the defendant denies the allegations. It defines an 'Enforcement Threshold' of $5,000 in aggregated Excess Payments from discriminatory paired transactions with one covered retailer in any 12-month reporting period, gives the defendant a cure option of 1.5 times the full Excess Payment within 60 days of notice, provides for two times that amount if the Commission prevails in an enforcement action after the defendant declines to cure, has the Commission appoint a jointly selected monitor after entry, lists 26 relevant states, and expires six years after entry.
Federal Trade Commission (filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada)
The complaint for permanent injunction, monetary judgments, civil penalty judgments and other relief, filed October 2, 2026. It pleads counts under Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, Section 4 of ROSCA and Section 521 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, plus Nevada's Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Utah's Consumer Sales Practices Act and Automatic Renewal Contracts Act. Its central allegation is a mandatory 'Taxes & fees' line item placed below the fold of an interim checkout screen; in a February 2026 example it pleads a $146.32 advertised eight-box order that came to a $649.71 charge after a $273.44 'Taxes & fees' amount and $9.95 shipping. It alleges the conduct continued after the Commission's August 2025 Civil Investigative Demand, names Samourkachian as sole owner of both companies, and seeks a permanent injunction and monetary relief, with civil penalties sought by the states.
Federal Trade Commission
FTC release dated October 2, 2026 announcing a proposed stipulated order resolving the Commission's 2024 Robinson-Patman Act lawsuit against Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC, the largest U.S. wine and spirits distributor. The release describes limits on charging independent retailers more than competing chains on 'paired' transactions, a $5,000 aggregate threshold over 12 months, cure payments of 1.5 times the price differential and double that if the Commission prevails in an enforcement action, a six-year term, an independent monitor, and coverage of sales to the five largest chain retailers in 26 states. The Commission vote was 2-0 and the order was filed in the Central District of California.
Federal Trade Commission (Federal Register public-inspection copy)
The 37-page public-inspection copy of the FTC's advance notice of proposed rulemaking under 16 CFR Part 461 (RIN 3084-AB90), filed for public inspection September 30, 2026 at 8:45 a.m. Eastern and scheduled to be published in the Federal Register October 1. It asks whether to amend the Impersonation Rule, write a new rule, or use alternatives over search, social media and other digital marketplace platforms whose ad-optimization services it says further government and business impersonation scams. It contains no rule text.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC release dated September 30, 2026 announcing a complaint in the Southern District of New York charging private fund adviser Meyer Global Management LLC and its CEO, Owen E.H. Meyer, with defrauding investors and MGM-managed funds tied to SpaceX and other pre-IPO securities, and seeking injunctions, disgorgement with prejudgment interest, civil penalties and a conduct-based injunction against Meyer.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York)
The SEC's 33-page complaint, filed September 30, 2026. It alleges that from at least 2019 to 2024 MGM and Meyer raised at least $18,500,000 from nearly 100 investors in about 16 affiliated funds, each meant to hold one pre-IPO company such as SpaceX or OpenAI, and that in five schemes since December 2021 they breached their fiduciary duties to those funds, misappropriating at least $1,270,000 in three of them. It charges violations of Advisers Act Sections 206(1), 206(2) and 206(4) and Rule 206(4)-8 and demands a jury trial.
Federal Trade Commission
FTC release dated September 28, 2026 announcing a proposed stipulated order, filed in the Middle District of North Carolina, settling the FTC and 12 states' 2022 case against Corteva over its post-patent pesticide loyalty program. For 10 years it bars share-based loyalty terms above 50% and related exclusionary conditions across Corteva's post-patent active ingredients, and requires Corteva to pay the state plaintiffs $35,000,000. The case against Syngenta continues.
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