Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
The Justice Department says Perfectus Aluminum imported more than 2.2 million aluminum extrusions disguised as finished pallets — pallets that were never sold to a single customer — to avoid paying antidumping duties on Chinese aluminum.
Read the full report →Vitagene collected consumers' DNA samples under a privacy policy that restricted the use of their genetic data — then quietly changed the policy years later to allow sharing that data with third parties, retroactively applying new commercial uses to some of the most sensitive personal information consumers can provide.
Read the full report →Bountie Hunter operated a social media marketing platform that coordinated hundreds of influencers to post promotional content for paying brand clients without disclosing to their audiences that the posts were paid endorsements — obscuring the commercial nature of content that audiences believed reflected genuine personal recommendations.
Read the full report →A federal judge initially threw out the FTC's case against this data broker, ruling the agency hadn't shown real harm. Years later, a revised complaint over the same location-tracking practices ended in a settlement anyway.
Read the full report →Ring's home security cameras were compromised from the inside and the outside — employees and contractors accessed customers' private home video without authorization, and weak security controls allowed outside attackers to hijack cameras and speak through them into customers' homes and bedrooms.
Read the full report →Amazon retained children's voice recordings and associated location data for years after parents requested that the data be deleted — systematically overriding parental deletion rights and using the retained data to train Alexa's voice recognition algorithms in violation of children's privacy law.
Read the full report →National Auto Care administered dealer-sold GAP insurance and denied total loss claims through underwriting reviews that regulators found routinely invoked technical grounds unrelated to the actual policy terms consumers had purchased, reducing payouts on covered losses.
Read the full report →Automators AI sold business coaching programs for up to $30,000 per customer with promises of AI-powered passive income streams and significant monthly earnings — while providing generic content, minimal support, and generating virtually no actual income for the overwhelming majority of customers who paid.
Read the full report →Envision Healthcare, one of the largest emergency physician and anesthesiology staffing companies in the country, continued billing patients at out-of-network rates for hospital-based services after federal surprise billing protections took effect — generating patient charges that regulators found were prohibited under the law.
Read the full report →WW International's Kurbo app collected health and eating behavior data from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent — routing kids through an age-gate that could be bypassed by entering a false birthdate and retaining their data for advertising and app improvement purposes without COPPA-required parental authorization.
Read the full report →Vascular interventional procedures carry real risks and real reimbursement value. Regulators say a California physician performed them on 20 patients without the medical necessity Medicare requires before billing for them.
Read the full report →LuLaRoe recruited consultants with promises of substantial six-figure income potential while its own income disclosure showed the median participant earned less than $5,000 in retail sales — and many lost money buying required inventory that they could not sell.
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