Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
Federal wage investigators found Titanium Transportation misclassified truck drivers as independent contractors despite exercising control over their routes, schedules, and equipment — a level of control that made the drivers employees entitled to overtime and other protections the company had denied them.
Read the full report →A fitness app, a PDF tool, and a horoscope app had little in common on the surface. Regulators say they shared owners, a shell-company structure, and the same playbook for hiding recurring charges.
Read the full report →The second edition of our running enforcement record: an AI-branded crypto scam, an MLM earnings-claims ban, a franchise-disclosure settlement, and the largest health care fraud takedown in U.S. history.
Read the full report →Sterling Capital Mortgage certified Federal Housing Administration loans as eligible for government mortgage insurance while its own quality control reviews had identified deficiencies — a practice that resulted in FHA claims when those loans defaulted and generated False Claims Act liability for the lender.
Read the full report →Wyndham Hotels and Resorts suffered three separate data breaches within two years, each exposing customer payment card data through vulnerabilities that basic security practices would have prevented — while representing to customers that their information was protected by reasonable security measures.
Read the full report →Every landlord using the same software fed it their own confidential rent and occupancy data. States say the software then recommended prices back to all of them — coordinated pricing achieved without a single landlord ever picking up the phone.
Read the full report →When Synapse Financial Technologies filed for bankruptcy, thousands of fintech platform customers who had been told their accounts were FDIC-insured discovered that the insurance protection depended on reconciled ledger records that Synapse had failed to maintain — leaving a gap between what banks held and what customers were owed.
Read the full report →ZURU Toys advertised its products using demonstrations and depictions of performance capabilities that the actual toys could not deliver — from water balloons that didn't tie themselves to fidget toys that didn't perform as shown — leaving children disappointed and parents out of pocket for products that underperformed their advertising.
Read the full report →The lab specimens still went to Advanced Pathology Solutions for analysis. What allegedly changed was the referral arrangement underneath it — a setup regulators say let doctors profit from every biopsy slide they sent along.
Read the full report →Plex Media sold subscriber viewing history data to advertising partners in ways that regulators found were not adequately disclosed in the platform's privacy communications — enabling targeted advertising based on users' private viewing habits without the meaningful consent that use of such sensitive behavioral data requires.
Read the full report →Juul Labs marketed its nicotine e-cigarettes through social media campaigns, paid influencers, and in-person events whose aesthetic, messaging, and audience composition regulators found were designed to appeal to young people — including those under the legal purchasing age for Juul's products.
Read the full report →A recurring enforcement pattern has emerged across multiple for-profit colleges: inflated job-placement claims, difficult-to-access financial aid, and — years later — federal debt discharge for the students who were deceived.
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