Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
The treatment plan cost $23,000 and was marketed as a scientifically proven cure for COVID-19. Regulators say the product was mostly herbs and spices — and one of the company's officers was later sentenced to federal prison over it.
Read the full report →Businesses paid for a line of code promising instant, AI-powered compliance with website accessibility law. Regulators say the claim went further than the technology could actually deliver.
Read the full report →Two of New York's largest building services contractors used near-identical contract language to keep building owners from hiring their own workers away. One case passed unanimously. The other split the Commission 3-2.
Read the full report →Ten dealerships around Chicago. One pricing pattern regulators say added junk fees consumers never agreed to. The $20 million settlement became one of the largest the FTC has reached with a single dealer group.
Read the full report →Add-on products carried more than 99% profit margins, salespeople earned bigger commissions on the add-ons than the car sale itself, and the dealership posted fake reviews, the FTC and Illinois allege.
Read the full report →A sample of Lindsay's own transactions showed 88 percent of customers paid more than $2,000 above the advertised price. The FTC and Maryland Attorney General say that wasn't an accident.
Read the full report →For the first time in more than two decades, the federal government sued a company under a Depression-era law built to protect small retailers from being charged more than their giant competitors for the same goods.
Read the full report →Kroger and Albertsons promised divesting 579 stores would preserve competition. Two courts, on the same day, found the company buying those stores had been deliberately set up to fail.
Read the full report →One company built marketing lists of people who visited pregnancy centers. Another sold data on people at political rallies and places of worship. Both settled with regulators over the same underlying practice.
Read the full report →Losing an ad auction is supposed to mean a bidder walks away with nothing. Regulators say one data broker kept the location data anyway — and used it to build a marketing list of people who visited pregnancy centers.
Read the full report →IntelliVision's facial recognition software is built into millions of smart home devices. The FTC says the company's claims of top-tier accuracy and zero bias were never actually tested.
Read the full report →Buyers paid extra for 'Next Day' and 'Instant' shipping. The FTC says GOAT missed those promises on a third of orders — while its 'Buyer Protection' policy for defective sneakers mostly existed on paper.
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