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Consumer Protection

Federal rules protecting consumers from fraud, unsafe products, and deceptive practices.

  1. 2026

    2 items
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    FTC: CMG Active Listening settlement
    Gizmodo: FTC fines marketers nearly $1M
    ABA: Consumer Protection and the FTC in the Age of AI
    May 22

    FTC fines Cox Media Group $930K for fake AI listening ad service

    FTC fines three companies $930K for selling fake AI voice surveillance ads

    A
    C
    M
    1
    M
    5 figures
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    Restoring Integrity to America's Financial System
    Banks effectively deputized in Trump's immigration fight
    Trump executive order to stop short of requiring banks to collect citizenship information
    May 20

    Trump order makes immigration status a banking risk factor

    Trump tells banks to weigh immigration status when judging financial risk

    Donald Trump
    Scott Bessent
    Russell Vought
    Robert Nichols
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    7 figures

  2. 2025

    4 items
    Congress attacks D.C. lawsuit as Big Oil lobbies for immunity
    D.C. climate lawsuit survives motions to dismiss
    DC climate lawsuit gets its day in court
    Jul 10

    DC court forces Exxon, Shell into discovery in climate fraud consumer lawsuit

    Fossil fuel deception case advances despite industry obstruction

    Y
    K
    B
    P
    E
    5 figures

  3. 2024

    1 item

  4. 2020

    1 item

  5. 2008

    1 item

  6. 2007

    1 item

  7. 1999

    1 item
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Key figures in Consumer Protection

27 figures
Russell Vought
Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Doreen Greenwald
National President, National Treasury Employees Union
1010 Digital Works LLC
Defendant, settling party ($25,000)
Andrew Ferguson
Chair, Federal Trade Commission (2025–present)
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
Brian Schwalb
D.C. Attorney General
Byron Dorgan
CMG Media Corporation / Cox Media Group
Defendant, primary settling party ($880,000)
Efrén Olivares
Vice President of Litigation and Legal Strategy at the National Immigration Law Center
Eric Rodriguez
Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at UnidosUS
ExxonMobil executives
Fossil fuel defendants
George W. Bush
Former President
Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase CEO
Karl Racine
Former D.C. Attorney General
Lawrence Summers
Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard Professor
Marsha Blackburn
U.S. Senator (R-TN), Senate Commerce Committee
MindSift LLC
Defendant, settling party ($25,000)
Neomi Rao
Circuit Judge, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
Nicholas Anthony
Research Fellow at the Cato Institute Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives
Pam Bondi
U.S. Attorney General
Patricia Millett
D.C. Circuit Chief Judge
Paul Wellstone
Phil Gramm
Robert Nichols
President and CEO of the American Bankers Association
Scott Bessent
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Yvonne Williams
D.C. Superior Court Judge