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Under FTC Action, Shady Corporate Landlord Agrees to Pay Back Wronged Tenants

Junk Fees
September 24, 2024

In a major win for struggling tenants, today the Biden-Harris administration announced that Invitation Homes -- the nation’s top corporate landlord for single-family homes -- agreed to a $48 million settlement to help refund consumers harmed by the company’s illicit behavior including “deceiving renters about lease costs, charging undisclosed junk

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Watchdog: Updated DOJ And FDIC Bank Merger Guidance Should Be Immediately Applied to Capital One-Discover Merger

Economic Security and Corporate Power
September 17, 2024

Today, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) moved to modernize and strengthen its antitrust guidance involving banking mergers by subjecting the industry to the same 2023 Merger Guidelines the DOJ uses for other industries, rather than badly outdated bank merger guidance from nearly 30 years ago.

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