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FTC Chairman Issues Commission's 2011 Annual Report Highlights Agency Accomplishments to Protect Consumers and Competition

“Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today issued the FTC’s 2011 Annual Report at the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, highlighting the agency’s continued efforts to protect financially distressed consumers and promote competition during the economic downturn.

  • “Over the past year, the FTC has challenged unscrupulous business practices and anticompetitive mergers, shut down shady operations and deceptive marketing campaigns, and protected consumers’ privacy and their pocketbooks,” Chairman Leibowitz said. “The agency’s actions in the past 12 months have had far-reaching effects in protecting consumers and competition in critical sectors of our economy – from high tech to health care, financial services to online commerce.”
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