EvilCorporations.com • Jackson v. Ciox Health LLC d/b/a Datavant Group, No. CV2025-062690 • Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Your Social Security Number Was Left in an Inbox. Datavant Got a Deal. You Got $15. A phishing attack exposed the most…
Investigation / Antitrust / Federal Trade Commission Docket C-4824 The 25-Town Oil-Change Squeeze Valvoline tried to buy out a rival quick-lube chain owned by private equity. The FTC found the deal would have handed one company dominant control of oil…
Pet Food Industry ▪ Class Action ▪ Corporate Deception Your Dog Food Is a Heart Attack in a Bag EvilCorporations.com • Case 3:26-cv-03723-RFL, U.S. District Court, N.D. California, Filed April 29, 2026 • 12 min read TL;DR Schell & Kampeter,…
Financial Fraud • Elder Abuse • SEC Enforcement How A.G. Morgan Financial Advisors, Vincent Camarda, and James McArthur allegedly told hundreds of elderly clients their life savings were “safe”, then funneled the money into a failing mine and a drive-thru…
TL;DR Oak Street Bootmakers, a Chicago-based footwear brand, charged customers premium prices for shoes it marketed as “Made in USA” and “More than Made in USA” while secretly manufacturing uppers in the Dominican Republic and sourcing outsoles from Brazil, starting…
EvilCorporations.com / Investigation Federal regulators say two companies charged struggling student-loan borrowers hundreds to over a thousand dollars each for loan forgiveness that the government provides directly, for free. A federal court has now frozen the operation. TL;DR The FTC…
FTC v. Rollins, Inc. // Section 5, FTC Act The Federal Trade Commission charged Rollins, Inc. with running a blanket non-compete regime across its 700-plus U.S. locations. The FTC’s own complaint documents how it worked: every new hire signed, nobody…
EvilCorporations.com / Investigation TL;DR The Federal Trade Commission and eight states sued the three biggest US ad-buying companies, Dentsu, WPP Media (GroupM), and Publicis, accusing them of secretly agreeing to stop competing over which news sites their clients’ ads could…
EvilCorporations.com / Antitrust Files The company that already runs most of America’s workplace mini-marts tried to buy its only real competitor. The Federal Trade Commission stepped in. Here is who the deal was built to squeeze, in the government’s own…
Investigation · Consumer Deception They Sold China As America A flagpole company stamped “100% Made in USA” on products built entirely from Chinese parts, kept selling them after a federal warning, then settled for a fraction of the harm and…