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Noble Gold Investments used fears of inflation and currency devaluation to sell collectible gold and silver coins to retirement savers at markups far above spot commodity prices — obscuring that the collectible nature of the coins made them fundamentally different from the direct gold exposure the sales pitch implied.
Read the full report →Nexus Auto Transport gave consumers artificially low price quotes to win vehicle shipping bookings, collected deposits, then demanded substantially higher prices at delivery when the car owner had no practical alternative to paying — a bait-and-switch scheme that exploited the captive position of consumers whose vehicle was already in transport.
Read the full report →Global Media Networks created and operated hundreds of websites designed to look like independent local news outlets but that existed primarily to publish undisclosed sponsored content, political messaging, and press releases formatted to appear as investigative reporting.
Read the full report →Data broker Kochava sold precise GPS location histories that could reveal individuals' visits to abortion providers, addiction treatment centers, domestic violence shelters, and other sensitive locations — a practice regulators charged as unfair because of the concrete harm that location history disclosure can enable.
Read the full report →A tenant screening report can decide whether someone gets an apartment. Regulators say one provider's reports were riddled with inaccuracies that renters had no real way to catch — or fix — before it cost them housing.
Read the full report →SafeRent Solutions produced tenant screening reports that incorrectly attributed criminal convictions and eviction records to rental applicants who had no such history — causing housing denials based on records that belonged to other people, in violation of fair credit reporting requirements for background check accuracy.
Read the full report →State regulators found Lendmark Financial Services structured loan origination fees and ancillary product charges that, when combined with stated interest rates, produced effective credit costs exceeding the rate ceilings applicable in the states where the loans were made — without adequately disclosing the aggregate cost of credit to borrowers.
Read the full report →DraftKings promoted deposit match bonuses and free bets that required players to wager the bonus amount dozens of times before withdrawing — requirements buried in terms and conditions that made the advertised promotional value functionally unavailable to the overwhelming majority of players who claimed them.
Read the full report →A nurse visits a Medicare Advantage patient at home and records a list of health conditions. Regulators say some of what got recorded didn't hold up — and it was submitted anyway, because more diagnoses meant a bigger payment.
Read the full report →Homeowners nationwide received letters implying they qualified for a government mortgage-assistance program. Regulators say the letters had no such backing — and some recipients who stopped paying their mortgage on the company's advice ended up facing foreclosure.
Read the full report →One brand partner claimed a supplement changed her household after she gave it to her kids. Regulators say the underlying research was a 10-person study with no placebo group — and the mental-health claims built on top of it went even further.
Read the full report →Combining two outpatient surgery operators would have left patients in five metro areas with fewer choices for cataract surgeries and colonoscopies. The fix: sell off overlapping centers before the deal could proceed.
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