A federal district court has ordered the direct marketers of an herbal tea and a diet patch to pay nearly $2 million to the Federal Trade Commission for making deceptive claims that both products would allow users to lose weight quickly without diet or exercise, according to the FTC.
Named as defendants were Bronson Partners LLC and its officer Martin Howard, according to the FTC.-
For nearly two years before the FTC complaint was filed, the defendants marketed Chinese Diet Tea, telling consumers they could lose as much as six pounds a week by drinking one cup of the green tea after each meal to
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