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After a preventable data breach exposed 2.5 million Drizly customer accounts, regulators issued a consent order against the company — and an unprecedented personal consent order against its CEO that will apply to any company he leads for the next twenty years, citing his failure to address known security vulnerabilities.
Read the full report →Federal regulators allege Steven and Gina Merritt promised recruits a “spigot” of cash from a wellness-patch multilevel marketing company. The company's own 2024 income disclosure tells a very different story.
Read the full report →Live Nation's top lawyer wrote a blog post urging the government to settle without a breakup. The post was quietly deleted — and weeks later, the company got largely what it wanted, minus 13 amphitheaters.
Read the full report →More than 18,000 employees at a major pest-control company signed a noncompete clause, regardless of role or pay grade. Regulators say most never even understood what they were agreeing to.
Read the full report →GoodRx promised users it would never share their personal health information with advertisers — then used Facebook and Google advertising pixels to send detailed prescription search and fill data to those platforms, enabling targeted advertising campaigns based on users' medications and inferred medical conditions.
Read the full report →Carestream Health used long-term exclusive supply contracts with hospital systems to foreclose competing suppliers of medical imaging film and chemistry from accessing purchasing volume that rivals needed to compete effectively, according to federal antitrust findings.
Read the full report →Vonage made signing up for phone service a matter of clicks while burying cancellation behind a phone-only process with hold times exceeding an hour and trained representatives whose first priority was to prevent the call from ending in a cancelled account.
Read the full report →Being under a federal consent order is supposed to change a company's behavior. Regulators say one of the biggest names in business credit reporting kept doing what the order told it to stop.
Read the full report →A federal court has ordered a key operator of a timeshare exit scheme to pay $140 million and permanently banned him from the industry, resolving FTC allegations the operation defrauded roughly 18,000 consumers — mostly older adults — out of more than $90 million.
Read the full report →Among the SEC's fiscal year 2025 highlights: a trial victory against an individual who used Twitter to promote stocks to retail followers while secretly selling his own shares into the resulting demand, pocketing $2.6 million.
Read the full report →Clearpoint Financial Solutions enrolled consumers in a debt settlement program and began collecting fees immediately — before reaching any agreement with creditors — in violation of rules that require debt relief companies to settle debts first and charge fees only afterward.
Read the full report →Among the SEC's fiscal year 2025 enforcement highlights: charges against a pharmaceutical executive accused of making misleading statements about clinical trial results for a drug candidate targeting a common complication of chronic kidney disease.
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