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Agency Name: Federal Trade Commission
Penalty Total since 2000: $15,789,168,172
Number of Records: 573
Note: The parent penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the list of individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. Duplicate penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
Top 10 Current Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
Meta Platforms Inc.$5,000,000,0001
Volkswagen$4,000,000,0001
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries$1,200,000,0001
Epic Games Inc.$520,000,0001
DISH Network$280,000,0001
Citigroup$215,000,0001
Alphabet Inc.$211,500,0003
Herbalife$200,000,0001
Apollo Education Group$191,000,0001
AT&T$148,010,0005

Individual Penalty Records:

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CompanyCurrent ParentCurrent Parent IndustryPrimary Offense Type sort iconYearPenalty Amount
ValueAct Capital Partners investor protection violation2007$1,100,000
Hearst CorporationHearstmediainvestor protection violation2001$4,000,000
Caledonia Investments plc investor protection violation2016$480,000
Canon Inc.Canonelectrical and electronic equipmentinvestor protection violation2019$2,500,000
Third Point LLC investor protection violation2019$609,810
Toshiba CorporationToshibaelectrical and electronic equipmentinvestor protection violation2019$2,500,000
Warrior Trading investor protection violation2022$3,000,000
Bear Stearns Companies, LLCJPMorgan Chasefinancial servicesmortgage abuses2008$28,000,000
Fairbanks Capital Holding Corp. mortgage abuses2003$40,000,000
Cephalon, Inc.Teva Pharmaceutical Industriespharmaceuticalsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2015$1,200,000,000
Toys R Us Inc. price-fixing or anti-competitive practices2011$1,300,000
Star Pipe Products, Ltd. price-fixing or anti-competitive practices2016$120,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyBristol-Myers Squibbpharmaceuticalsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2009$2,100,000
Alpharma, Inc.Pfizerpharmaceuticalsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2004$2,500,000
Perrigo CompanyPerrigopharmaceuticalsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2004$3,750,000
Boston Scientific CorporationBoston Scientific Corp.medical equipment and suppliesprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2003$7,040,000
Nine West Group Inc.Premier Brands Group Holdingsapparelprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2000$34,000,000
Mallinckrodt ARD IncMallinckrodtpharmaceuticalsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2017$100,000,000
Reckitt Benckiser Group plcReckitt Benckiserhousehold and personal care productsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2019$50,000,000
Indivior, Inc.Indivior PLCpharmaceuticalsprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2020$10,000,000
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.Couche-Tardretailingprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2020$3,500,000
Biglari Holdings Inc.Biglari Holdingsdiversifiedprice-fixing or anti-competitive practices2021$1,400,000
LAI Systems privacy violation2015$60,000
Retro Dreamer privacy violation2015$300,000
Yelp, Inc.Yelp Inc.information technologyprivacy violation2014$450,000
TinyCo. Inc. privacy violation2014$300,000
Google Inc.Alphabet Inc.information technologyprivacy violation2012$22,500,000
W3 Innovations, LLC dba Broken Thumbs Apps privacy violation2011$50,000
Playdom Inc.Walt Disneyentertainmentprivacy violation2011$3,000,000
InMobi privacy violation2016$950,000
Iconix Brand Group, Inc.Iconix Brand Groupapparelprivacy violation2009$250,000
New Edge Satellite, Inc. privacy violation2009$570,000
Vision Quest, LLC privacy violation2009$690,000
Comcast Corp.Comcasttelecommunicationsprivacy violation2009$900,000
DIRECTVAT&Ttelecommunicationsprivacy violation2009$2,310,000
Sony BMG Music EntertainmentSonyelectrical and electronic equipmentprivacy violation2008$1,000,000
Industrious Kid, Inc. privacy violation2008$130,000
American United Mortgage Company privacy violation2007$50,000
ChoicePoint, Inc.RELX Groupmediaprivacy violation2006$15,000,000
Columbia House Company privacy violation2005$300,000
Bonzi Software Inc. privacy violation2004$75,000
UMG Recordings, Inc. privacy violation2004$400,000
Hershey Foods CorporationHersheyfood productsprivacy violation2003$85,000
Mrs. Fields Cookies privacy violation2003$100,000
Lisa Frank, Inc. privacy violation2001$30,000
Bigmailbox.com, Inc. privacy violation2001$35,000
Looksmart Ltd. privacy violation2001$35,000
Monarch Services, Inc. and Girls Life, Inc. privacy violation2001$30,000
VIZIO, Inc.Vizio Inc.electrical and electronic equipmentprivacy violation2017$2,200,000
Musical.ly (now known as TikTok)ByteDanceinformation technologyprivacy violation2019$5,700,000
i-Dressup.com privacy violation2019$35,000
Facebook, Inc.Meta Platforms Inc.information technologyprivacy violation2019$5,000,000,000
Google LLCAlphabet Inc.information technologyprivacy violation2019$170,000,000
Mortgage Solutions FCS, Inc. privacy violation2020$120,000
Kohl's Department Stores, Inc.Kohl'sretailingprivacy violation2020$220,000
HyperBeard, Inc. privacy violation2020$150,000
Kuuhuub Inc. privacy violation2021$100,000
OpenX Technologies, Inc. privacy violation2021$2,000,000
WW International, Inc.WW Internationalmiscellaneous servicesprivacy violation2022(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $1,500,000
Residual Pumpkin Entity LLC privacy violation2022$500,000
Epic Games, Inc.Epic Games Inc.entertainmentprivacy violation2022$520,000,000
GoodRx Holdings Inc. privacy violation2023$1,500,000
Edmodo privacy violation2023$6,000,000
MicrosoftMicrosoftinformation technologyprivacy violation2023$20,000,000
Amazon.comAmazon.comretailingprivacy violation2023$25,000,000
Ring LLC privacy violation2023$5,800,000
BetterHelp privacy violation2023$7,800,000
Easy Healthcare Corporation privacy violation2023$100,000
Day Pacer, LLC and EduTrek, LLC privacy violation2024$28,700,000
Avast Ltd. privacy violation2024$16,500,000
Cerebral, Inc. privacy violation2024$7,000,000
Monument, Inc. privacy violation2024$2,500,000
Amazon.comAmazon.comretailingwage and hour violation2021$61,710,583
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.