Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
A defense software contractor billed the U.S. government for costs it was not permitted to recover under contract terms, settling fraud allegations under the False Claims Act for $27 million after a whistleblower complaint triggered the investigation.
Read the full report →A lending marketplace promoted as a free resource for small businesses seeking pandemic relief loans collected undisclosed referral fees from lenders and failed to disclose conflicts of interest that could have influenced which lenders it directed applicants toward.
Read the full report →The owner of a Pacific Northwest concrete pumping company admitted to participating in a multi-year price-fixing conspiracy in which competing companies coordinated their pricing for concrete pumping services, eliminating the competitive market that customers were entitled to expect.
Read the full report →The robocall said a consumer owed a debt and faced legal action if they didn't call back immediately. Regulators say the debt was often fictional — and the operation collected more than $5.2 million anyway.
Read the full report →Two propane distribution companies agreed not to solicit or hire each other's workers, an arrangement federal prosecutors characterized as an illegal horizontal agreement between competitors that suppressed wages and restricted the job mobility of propane delivery and service employees.
Read the full report →Extended warranties, gap insurance, paint protection — bundled into loan paperwork so smoothly that a survey found 83 percent of buyers never realized they'd agreed to pay for them.
Read the full report →Same car, same credit profile, different price. Regulators found Black customers at these dealerships paid an average of $190 more in interest and $99 more for add-ons than similarly qualified white customers — and it cost the dealer group a record $10 million.
Read the full report →The supplements were marketed to treat heart disease and reverse diabetic nerve damage. Regulators found no science behind either claim — and banned the company from ever selling a supplement again.
Read the full report →Home-flipping TV personalities helped sell the seminars. The pitch promised tens of thousands of dollars in quick profits from real estate. Regulators say almost none of it panned out — and ordered $111 million in judgments.
Read the full report →The ad exchange's own internal ratings labeled hundreds of apps 'for toddlers' or 'kids games.' Regulators say it sold targeted ads against those exact apps anyway, without the protections children's privacy law requires.
Read the full report →Three brothers ran a New Jersey septic tank cleaning business. Regulators say they backed it with tens of millions of illegal robocalls, many to phone numbers that had specifically opted out of exactly this kind of call.
Read the full report →The website promised a commission check for every sale closed on your behalf. It was one of dozens of schemes federal regulators targeted in a single sweep against fake work-from-home opportunities.
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