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The paperwork said the steel came from Canada or the United States. Regulators say the companies knew it actually came from China, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, or Vietnam — and the mislabeling was the only thing standing between them and the duty they owed.
Read the full report →Shutterstock will pay $35 million after the FTC alleged the company's own internal emails acknowledged customers 'don't realize what they have signed up for' — while an eight-screen cancellation flow made exiting deliberately difficult.
Read the full report →Intuit ran 'free' TurboTax advertising that attracted tax filers who qualified for genuinely free government-sponsored filing — then routed those consumers to TurboTax's limited free product and when they didn't qualify, into paid products rather than the IRS Free File option they were eligible for.
Read the full report →Cerebral used social media advertising to drive demand for ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescriptions while its clinical infrastructure and subscription business model created conditions where prescriptions were issued without adequate evaluation — and continued without adequate clinical justification to maintain subscription revenue.
Read the full report →California insurance regulators found Golden State Annuity agents recommended annuity products with surrender penalty periods of up to twelve years to elderly clients whose documented financial profiles showed a need for liquid, accessible savings.
Read the full report →Venus ET Fleur enrolled the recipients of flower gifts in subscription programs that charged recurring fees — without obtaining those recipients' consent and without clearly disclosing at the time of the gift purchase that the person receiving the flowers would be billed for ongoing deliveries.
Read the full report →Bold Business Solar's door-to-door representatives introduced themselves to homeowners as being there in connection with their utility company or a government solar program — false affiliations that gave the sales pitch an appearance of official endorsement it did not have and that regulators found were central to the company's customer acquisition strategy.
Read the full report →The SEC's own fiscal year 2025 enforcement summary reports 456 actions and $17.9 billion in monetary relief — figures that offer a rare aggregate view of how much financial wrongdoing the agency detects and acts on in a single year.
Read the full report →FBA Machine sold Amazon FBA business coaching programs with prominent refund guarantees as a conversion tool — then denied those refunds to virtually every customer who requested them, using shifting compliance requirements and documentation demands that ensured the guarantee would never actually be paid.
Read the full report →She has been described as an LSE economist, McKinsey strategist, Forbes columnist, and LVMH adviser. An examination of the public record finds no independent confirmation for any of it - and evidence that much of the coverage repeating these claims was commercially arranged.
Read the full report →She has been described as an LSE economist, McKinsey strategist, Forbes columnist, and LVMH adviser. An examination of the public record finds no independent confirmation for any of it - and evidence that much of the coverage repeating these claims was commercially arranged.
Read the full report →Sovereign Lending Group mailed millions of mortgage solicitations formatted to look like official federal agency notices — using government-style language, seals, and formats that implied regulatory endorsement for refinancing offers that regulators found were misleading.
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