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A federal court sided with the FTC and blocked Tapestry's $8.5 billion bid to acquire Capri Holdings, finding that combining Coach, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Versace, and Jimmy Choo under one owner would harm both consumers and employees.
Read the full report →Amedisys agreed to pay $106 million to the DOJ to resolve allegations that the home health company had instructed its therapists to inflate therapy minutes documented in patient records to push patients above the thresholds that triggered higher Medicare reimbursement tiers — a systematic upcoding scheme affecting thousands of patients across the company's national home health operations.
Read the full report →A car dealership in Rhinelander, Wisconsin allegedly tacked junk fees onto purchases and charged some consumers more based on their background. Refund checks finally arrived years after the underlying complaint.
Read the full report →Medline Industries paid $85 million to resolve allegations that administrative fees and rebates paid to a major hospital purchasing cooperative exceeded what the anti-kickback statute's GPO safe harbor permits, steering member hospital purchasing toward Medline products purchased with Medicare and Medicaid funds.
Read the full report →Every time consumer complaints piled up, the operation reappeared under a new name with the same pitch. The FTC says one man ran all three versions — even while a public-facing frontman took the blame.
Read the full report →The proposed combination of Tapestry — owner of Coach and Kate Spade — with Capri Holdings — owner of Michael Kors — was halted by a court after regulators argued the deal would remove meaningful price competition for working consumers shopping in the accessible luxury handbag segment.
Read the full report →The FTC investigated Monat Global over income representations made to prospective recruits for the company's hair care multi-level marketing program, finding that the earnings claims prominently featured in recruiting materials were not representative of the typical participant experience and constituted deceptive advertising under federal consumer protection law.
Read the full report →The FTC warned Ryze Superfoods that its marketing of mushroom-blend coffee products with claims about immunity, focus, and gut health lacked adequate scientific substantiation.
Read the full report →The SEC charged Lucira Health with omitting from its IPO registration statement material information about inventory obsolescence risk for its COVID-19 test kits — information that, had it been disclosed, would have materially altered investors' assessment of the company's near-term revenue prospects at the time of the offering.
Read the full report →Qargo Coffee collected over $1.25 million from franchisees who signed nearly 60 agreements — while only two shops ever opened, and one founder's ties to the collapsed Burgerim chain went undisclosed.
Read the full report →The DOJ charged Golden Visa Partners and its principals with defrauding foreign national investors who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into EB-5 projects that were misrepresented in critical respects, including the use of funds and the projects' actual development status.
Read the full report →The EPA cited Florida Crystals Corporation for Clean Air Act violations at its sugar cane milling operations in Florida, finding the company had exceeded permitted emission limits for particulate matter and other pollutants and had failed to install required pollution control equipment upgrades.
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