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A New Jersey for-profit college told students its partnerships with major employers would lead directly to jobs after graduation. Regulators say those partnerships never delivered what was promised — and the financing behind them broke the law too.
Read the full report →Entre Institute promised prospective enrollees that buying into its online business program would lead to substantial and typical earnings — claims regulators determined were not representative of what buyers actually achieved.
Read the full report →Voyager Digital told customers their crypto deposits were safe and federally insured. Its own banking partner flagged the claim as misleading more than a year before the company collapsed — and Voyager kept making it anyway.
Read the full report →A healthcare entity and its associates billed Medicare and other federal health programs for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and telemedicine consultations using fraudulent orders, generating approximately $24 million in claims for services that were not medically justified or clinically supported.
Read the full report →A credit monitoring company enrolled consumers in recurring subscription plans using a checkout flow that obscured the ongoing cost and made cancellation unnecessarily difficult — a pattern regulators call illegal negative-option marketing.
Read the full report →Executives at a testing company operated an $83 million scheme that paid kickbacks to marketers and referring entities who directed Medicare beneficiaries toward COVID-19 and other diagnostic tests, regardless of whether those tests were medically warranted.
Read the full report →The calls claimed to come from the consumer's own car manufacturer, offering “bumper to bumper” protection. Regulators say the operation had no such affiliation — and banned its operator from outbound telemarketing for life.
Read the full report →A liquid supplement claimed it could help people stop drinking before they'd had too much. Regulators say the company backed that claim with paid TV endorsers and review sites it secretly owned itself.
Read the full report →A manufacturer of commercial air purification technology marketed its bipolar ionization systems as effective against COVID-19 and other airborne pathogens using studies that regulators determined did not adequately support the claims being made.
Read the full report →The principal of a small wealth management firm created fictitious account statements showing strong investment performance while client funds were being diverted to personal accounts and real estate purchases.
Read the full report →A company using the name and aesthetic of a legitimate student loan management service impersonated federal loan servicers, collected fees from borrowers for enrollment assistance it did not perform, and redirected borrower payments away from actual loan accounts.
Read the full report →Oppower presented fabricated earnings claims and fake success stories to sell coaching packages costing thousands of dollars, with regulators finding that virtually no buyers achieved anything close to the incomes depicted in the company's marketing.
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