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A wide-ranging coaching operation promised significant income and credit repair results. Regulators say it cost consumers nearly $50 million, and its co-CEOs must now liquidate a multimillion-dollar house to pay it back.
Read the full report →Federal inspection reports at Meridian Senior Living facilities cited staffing shortfalls, medication administration failures, and preventable falls that resulted in resident injuries and federal civil money penalties.
Read the full report →In the same period Minnesota regulators pursued the Shamsia Hopes case, they also sued an advocacy nonprofit over $6.5 million in alleged misuse, and a dance school and faith center over luxury spending — evidence of a pattern, not an isolated failure.
Read the full report →Precision Diagnostics cultivated relationships with substance abuse treatment centers by offering financial inducements for specimen referrals, then billed Medicare for testing panels patients never needed.
Read the full report →An investigation by Minnesota's Charities Division found that a nonprofit operating federal child-nutrition programs was run essentially by one person, who allegedly used its assets on a luxury car, a personal mortgage, and millions steered to her husband's company.
Read the full report →JustAnswer told people they could get expert advice for a dollar or two. Regulators say that nominal fee was actually the doorway into a $28-to-$125 monthly subscription — one the company insists it discloses clearly. The case is still being fought out in court.
Read the full report →The FTC filed suit against online expert-advice platform JustAnswer and its CEO in January 2026, alleging violations of federal law governing how subscription services must disclose billing and provide cancellation.
Read the full report →Stonebridge Business Partners marketed an online business coaching system with income promises regulators found were fabricated. Fewer than one in twenty participants ever turned a profit.
Read the full report →Reported fraud losses among adults 60 and older grew from $600 million in 2020 to $2.4 billion in 2024, according to the FTC's own annual report to Congress — and the agency's data shows the growth is increasingly driven by investment scams and AI-assisted impersonation.
Read the full report →After a year of warnings, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has started enforcing its Consumer Review Rule — sending warning letters to ten companies, brandishing penalties of more than $53,000 per violation, and widening its investigation into fake and AI-generated reviews.
Read the full report →According to the SEC, a coordinated network posed as licensed crypto trading platforms and AI investment clubs, recruiting victims through social media ads and WhatsApp groups before misappropriating more than $14 million.
Read the full report →An AI company settled charges that one of its tools could churn out fake consumer reviews. A year later, under new leadership and a new White House directive on AI, the FTC undid its own case.
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