Investigations
Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
Corporations — 7 July 2026 — 6 min read
Regulators found Sprouts Farmers Market locations were selling conventionally grown produce at organic prices after conventional and organic products had been commingled in storage areas — a handling failure that produced mislabeled sales and overcharged consumers who paid premiums for organic certification.
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Fraud & Deception — 5 July 2026 — 7 min read
Derma Sciences sales representatives trained wound care clinicians on documentation practices that maximized wound complexity coding — systematically driving higher Medicare reimbursement for wound care services and the company's own products without a corresponding clinical basis for the elevated codes.
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Institutions — 5 July 2026 — 6 min read
Federal examiners found Landmark Credit Union had operated with deficient Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering controls for multiple examination cycles — including a transaction monitoring system that failed to generate alerts for known high-risk transaction patterns and prior examination findings that remained unaddressed.
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Institutions — 3 July 2026 — 7 min read
American Addiction Centers advertised its substance use disorder programs with specific recovery outcome statistics — including sobriety and retention rates — that regulators found were not based on systematic outcome tracking or any validated measurement methodology used by the company.
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Corporations — 2 July 2026 — 7 min read
Regulators charged Prospect Capital with marking distressed loan positions above values supported by independent analysis — inflating net asset value figures that informed distribution levels and that investors relied on when evaluating the stock.
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Institutions — 1 July 2026 — 5 min read
American Higher Education Development Corp. agreed to pay over $1 million to resolve allegations of inflated graduation statistics, brought forward by its own former Chief Operating Officer and Compliance Officer under the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions.
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Fraud & Deception — 1 July 2026 — 6 min read
Another operator, another rotating set of company names, another round of borrowers paying for forgiveness that was never real. This time, the case ends with a lifetime ban rather than a lengthy trial.
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Fraud & Deception — 1 July 2026 — 7 min read
Genova Diagnostics cultivated physician ordering relationships through financial arrangements regulators found violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, then billed federal health programs for specialty gastrointestinal stool testing panels that clinical review found were rarely medically necessary for the patients tested.
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Corporations — 30 June 2026 — 8 min read
Six major ad agencies allegedly agreed on common rules for where advertising money could and couldn't flow. Antitrust enforcers say that shared agreement, not any single agency's own judgment, is what raises the legal problem.
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Public Figures — 28 June 2026 — 15 min read
Sixteen years old, twelve sponsors, a world-champion coach, a father who ran a motorsport fuel company for 22 years — and a media footprint that somehow made it to Tehran, Ghana, and Lagos without anyone asking any of those questions.
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Institutions — 25 June 2026 — 8 min read
The Department of Justice's 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown charged hundreds of defendants in schemes totaling billions of dollars — including allegations that hospice patients were given unnecessary wound treatments to generate fraudulent billings.
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Corporations — 25 June 2026 — 6 min read
A Roper Technologies subsidiary inflated revenue by filling distributor pipelines beyond end-user demand and recognizing the shipments as sales — a channel stuffing practice that overstated results until the distributors began returning unsold inventory and the gap became impossible to conceal.
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