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Braun bragged to colleagues about over-collecting from small business accounts. A federal jury found he violated federal law — and a judge added a civil penalty for what it called his 'utter disregard and contempt' for consumers.
Read the full report →The FTC found that Premier Nutrition's joint health claims for its protein shake products were not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence — including studies the company itself had commissioned that failed to show the claimed effects on arthritis and joint function.
Read the full report →Tronox Limited entered a civil antitrust resolution covering an inquiry into whether pricing practices among major producers of the industrial white pigment used in paints and plastics constituted coordination harmful to manufacturers across multiple industries.
Read the full report →The founder of a biomedical patent company misrepresented the company's patent licensing revenue streams and business relationships to investors who were considering or had already made investments, generating funds based on a financial picture that did not reflect reality.
Read the full report →J.Crew Group settled investor claims that executives made confident public statements about the brand's direction while internal metrics showed a merchandise miss and inventory build-up that would materially reduce reported financial results.
Read the full report →X-Mode sold raw, unanonymized location data pulled from apps on millions of phones. The FTC says it had no real safeguards against that data being used to track people's visits to sensitive places.
Read the full report →Federal regulators warned this internet phone company that scammers were using its network to blast out illegal robocalls impersonating the Social Security Administration. It kept carrying the traffic anyway.
Read the full report →Consumers thought they were requesting a mortgage refinance quote. Instead, the FTC says their information was quietly banked and sold to telemarketers who blasted them with robocalls.
Read the full report →In 2020, the FTC warned VoIP providers that helping illegal robocallers reach consumers was against the law. The agency says XCast Labs kept carrying those calls anyway.
Read the full report →Binance grew into the world's largest crypto exchange while, according to federal prosecutors, deliberately keeping weak compliance controls to keep the money flowing from anywhere, including sanctioned countries and criminal marketplaces.
Read the full report →A French payment processing company and its U.S. subsidiary provided processing infrastructure that enabled tech support scam operations to collect payments from consumers who had been falsely told their computers were infected or compromised and that immediate paid support was required.
Read the full report →Half of this dealership's customers were charged junk fees they never agreed to. On top of that, regulators say Native American buyers paid more in interest and fees than everyone else — buyers who often drove hours just to reach the lot.
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