FTC Emails Show Whitaker Fielded Gripes on Miami Firm
(Bloomberg) -- Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was alerted to a series of customer complaints about a Miami company where he was on the advisory board, according to new documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
The documents, produced Friday in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, contain internal correspondence among FTC investigators and provide a more detailed look at Whitaker’s actions at the company. While they show that he was contacted with concerns about company practices, they don’t show he misrepresented his role to FTC investigators, as Bloomberg incorrectly reported earlier Friday.
Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney in Iowa during the George W. Bush administration, agreed to cooperate with the FTC, according to an email. He also told an agency investigator that he hadn’t had contact with customers of the Miami-based firm, World Patent Marketing.
The FTC sanctioned the company in 2017, describing it as an “invention promotion scheme” and accusing it of “bilking millions of dollars from consumers.”
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