Partner Daniel Kaufman is quoted in an Oct. 16 FTC Watch article about the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to combat unfair business practices in partnership with the Justice Department's Consumer Protection Branch (CPB).
According to the article, titled "FTC, DOJ fuse consumer protection enforcement,” dozens of civil penalty actions every year are being referred by the FTC to the Justice Department’s CPB, and it amounts to a “marked transformation, in which FTC-related matters have become a large part of the CPB docket.”
Kaufman notes that the FTC’s first priority used to be, “If you can get money back to consumers, that’s far more important than getting a civil penalty that goes to the Treasury.” But, he adds, “things are very different now.”
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