The advertising watchdog group TruthInAdvertising.org (TINA) sent a letter yesterday to the Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), mentioning that the FTC “execute a punishment offense program focusing on the direct selling industry and its market-wide act of using beguiling income portrayals and false health claims.”
The letter likewise incorporated a rundown of 660 direct selling organizations working in the U.S., including their contact data that TINA requested that the FTC use to furnish them with “real notification of the law” and to “kill any cases of obliviousness “so that” common punishments might be forced against offenders
In February, Samuel Levine, Attorney Advisor to Commissioner Rohit Chopra held a conference call that contended the FTC ought to “revive” Section 5(m)(1)(B) of the FTC Act, known as the Penalty Offense Authority, which has seldom been utilized. These penalties can accumulate rapidly and there is no known legal time limit.