Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
Former Pareteum Corporation executives fabricated $68 million in revenue by recording contracts that did not exist and customer billings that customers had never authorized — overstating reported revenue by more than 90 percent in some quarterly periods and triggering a restatement that wiped out nearly all the company's claimed sales history.
Read the full report →A finalized FTC order against self-publishing course seller Publishing.com describes a familiar architecture of manufactured credibility: bold personal-wealth claims from the founders, reviews from undisclosed insiders, and a refund process built to be difficult to complete.
Read the full report →State attorneys general and consumer advocates alleged Westgate Resorts blocked timeshare owners from exiting contracts through legitimate channels while marketing internal deed-back and relief programs that the company denied or delayed in ways that left owners trapped in maintenance fee obligations they could not afford.
Read the full report →Internal documents disclosed in mass tort litigation against Syngenta show the company possessed research findings suggesting a biological link between paraquat herbicide and Parkinson's disease years before publicly available epidemiological studies established the association that has driven thousands of personal injury claims.
Read the full report →A ransomware attack on Parkway Health Network exposed the protected health information of 210,000 patients. Federal investigators found the attack succeeded in part because the network had not implemented data encryption at rest or the risk analysis processes that HIPAA required.
Read the full report →Elite Health Plans sold products described as health coverage to consumers who believed they were purchasing health insurance — but the products provided no insurance benefit, offered only non-insurance discount arrangements, and left buyers with no coverage when they sought to use the benefits they thought they had purchased.
Read the full report →Federal fair lending examiners found Cornerstone Home Lending denied mortgage applications from Black and Hispanic applicants at higher rates than similarly situated white applicants — a disparity that persisted after controlling for credit score, debt-to-income ratio, and other underwriting variables.
Read the full report →The FTC and five states alleged Deere locked farmers and independent repair shops out of the software tools needed to fix modern tractors and combines. Under the settlement, Deere must open that access for the next 10 years.
Read the full report →California insurance regulators permanently banned agent Calvin Broussard after finding he replaced elderly clients' existing annuities with new National Western Financial products on terms that reset surrender charge periods and generated commissions for Broussard while providing no material benefit to his clients.
Read the full report →Progressive Leasing offered consumers rent-to-own financing for electronics and appliances at retail partner locations while burying the total cost of ownership — often two to three times the item's retail price — behind advertising that emphasized affordable weekly or monthly payment amounts.
Read the full report →Federal oversight monitors found CoreCivic immigration detention facilities failed to meet contractual medical care standards — with staffing shortages, delayed responses to urgent health complaints, and care gaps that monitors documented as creating risk of harm to detained individuals.
Read the full report →The FTC alleged travel app Hopper charged users fees they hadn't agreed to and overstated the benefits of certain paid add-ons. A $35 million settlement now requires the company to change how it discloses fees and product terms.
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