NEW YORK — Walmart submitted a movement on Monday to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission suit that implicates the country’s biggest seller of enabling its money-transfer services to be utilized by fraud artists.
The movement calls the FTC’s June suit an “egregious circumstances of firm overreach.”
The FTC declares in its suit that for years, Walmart stoppedworking to correctly protected the money-transfer services used at its shops, stealing “hundreds of millions of dollars” from clients. The firm stated Walmart didn’t correctly train its workers, stoppedworking to alert clients, and utilized treatments that enabled scammers to money out at its shops. The FTC had asked the court to order Walmart to return cash to customers and to enforce civil charges on the business.
In a 41-page file, submitted in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, Walmart laid out a number of what it called lawfully flawed declares, consistingof that the company didnothave “constitutionally legitimate authority to takelegalactionagainst for cash or injunctive relief.” It stated that the FTC is attempting to hold Walmart responsible for the criminal actions of entirely unassociated third-party fr