WASHINGTON -- The marketers of the Ab Circle Pro -- an abdominal exercise machine that promised major weight loss with daily three-minute workouts -- agreed to settle deceptive advertising allegations ...

— -- The Federal Trade Commission says it filed deceptive advertising charges against a fitness marketing company for its claims that using its fitness product for three minutes was equivalent to ...

WASHINGTON — The ads promised that if you used the Ab Circle Pro machine just three minutes a day, you’d lose weight fast. But the Federal Trade Commission said the only thing that would get ...

WASHINGTON -- Companies marketing the Ab Circle Pro exercise device have agreed to pay as much as $25 million in refunds to customers to settle federal regulators' charges of deceptive advertising.

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A Southern California man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for importing counterfeit exercise equipment. Federal prosecutors say 37-year-old Sok Hun Jin of ...

The FTC noted that its complaint does not amount to a ruling that the Ab Circle Pro defendants violated the law, nor does their agreement to settle admit their guilt. The exercise device might be best ...

(AP) NEW YORK - Companies marketing the Ab Circle Pro exercise device have agreed to pay as much as $25 million in refunds to customers to settle federal regulators' charges of deceptive advertising.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three minutes a day on the Ab Circle Pro will not melt away the pounds, and marketers of the exercise device will have to pay as much as $25 million in refunds for making the ...

You may be familiar with the Ab Circle Pro from late night cable or satellite infomercials. You can try the Ab Circle Pro for just $14.95 (plus shipping and handling) for 30 days, and if you don't ...

The Federal Trade Commission says that when the marketers of the "Ab Circle Pro" said three minutes a day would suffice to give you rock-hard abs, they were over-hyping their product. Today, the FTC ...

The ads made it all seem so simple: Use the Ab Circle Pro for a measly three minutes a day and you'll lose 10 pounds in two weeks. "You can either do 30 minutes of abs and cardio or just three minutes ...

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. So when the marketers of the Ab Circle Pro claimed that a three-minute workout on the exercise gadget was the equivalent of 100 sit-ups, the Federal ...