Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
Two credit repair companies charged consumers illegal upfront fees and promised to remove accurate negative information from credit reports — a claim with no legal foundation — leaving clients with diminished savings and unchanged credit profiles.
Read the full report →Executives from a roofing materials supplier were convicted of coordinating with competing companies to rig bids on government procurement contracts, depriving public agencies of genuine competition and inflating costs paid by taxpayers for roofing materials.
Read the full report →A company called Lanier Law promised to lower homeowners' monthly mortgage payments in exchange for upfront fees. Regulators say the relief rarely, if ever, arrived.
Read the full report →BetterHelp asked new users detailed mental health questions, then allegedly used that data to help Facebook and other platforms target them with ads — despite promising the information would never be shared.
Read the full report →A husband-and-wife credit repair operation knowingly bought a customer database from people the FTC had already sued once. When regulators caught up with them, they came for the Lamborghini too.
Read the full report →The pitch promised passive income on autopilot from Amazon storefronts and a secret crypto trading bot. Regulators say the reviews backing those claims were fake, and few customers ever made money at all.
Read the full report →Elizabeth Holmes told investors, patients, and partners that her device could run comprehensive blood panels from a single drop. A federal jury found she knew that claim was false the entire time.
Read the full report →The operator of several rural Tennessee community hospitals and its chief executive were charged with billing Medicare and Medicaid for services that were medically unnecessary, never performed, or performed by providers whose credentials did not qualify for the billed reimbursement rates.
Read the full report →In 2015 and 2017, this dealer group mailed more than 21,000 fake urgent recall notices to lure people into the showroom. Years later, regulators found it charging Black and Latino customers more for financing — the second time this same company had faced federal charges.
Read the full report →The advertised price said $24,050. Add the fees regulators say were never disclosed, and the actual bill came to $26,440 — one example among thousands the case says followed the same pattern.
Read the full report →Consumers seeking affordable comprehensive health insurance were sold limited benefit products through telephone and online sales channels, leaving them with coverage gaps they did not know existed until they needed care.
Read the full report →Kardashian's post included the hashtag #AD. What it didn't include, the SEC says, was any mention of the quarter-million-dollar payment behind it — a gap in disclosure that ended up costing her $1.26 million.
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