Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
A $1.7 billion deal between two of the biggest names in American wine and spirits nearly went through as originally structured. Regulators said parts of it would have violated antitrust law — so the companies gave up product lines instead.
Read the full report →CBD sales boomed with almost no federal oversight of the health claims made along the way. One company's CEO told customers the products could ease everything from anxiety to chronic pain — claims regulators say were never backed by science.
Read the full report →Sixty-seven million people. 1.3 billion robocalls. Regulators say a network of telefunding operators kept the scheme running even after some of its own members had already been banned once.
Read the full report →Hundreds of thousands of people bought an indoor antenna promising to replace cable entirely. Regulators say the company's reviews were fake, its 'news' pages were ads, and the channels never showed up.
Read the full report →The law had existed since 2016, but no one had ever actually been charged under it. Three Long Island ticket brokers changed that, using bots and accounts registered to family, friends, and people who didn't exist.
Read the full report →The mailer looked like an official government check made out for $1,000, meant to be spent on hearing aids. Regulators say there was never any such stimulus program — and the hearing-loss statistics printed alongside it didn't add up either.
Read the full report →The apps featured cats, bunnies, and monkeys marketed as 'super cute' to kids. Regulators found the company let ad networks track those same children without parental consent — but one commissioner thought the $4 million fine went too far.
Read the full report →Pay just shipping and handling, the ads said. Two weeks later, a $90 charge showed up, and it kept showing up every month after that. Regulators say the company even faked its own website to block refund disputes.
Read the full report →Well-known social media influencers posted about a tea brand's detox and weight-loss benefits. Regulators say the health claims were baseless — and the influencers never adequately told their followers they were being paid to say it.
Read the full report →One Wells Fargo employee, a Gulf War veteran, wrote to his bosses that working under the bank's sales quotas was harder than the war had been. Executives knew about the fake accounts for 14 years before the practice finally stopped.
Read the full report →A quiz app harvested data on up to 87 million Facebook users, most of whom never took the quiz themselves. The resulting FTC settlement remains the largest privacy penalty ever imposed on any company, anywhere.
Read the full report →A known software flaw sat unpatched for months. By the time Equifax caught the breach, hackers had already taken Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses for nearly half of all American adults.
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