FTC Enforcement Action • April 2023 • Payment Fraud Nexway’s $16.5 Million Fine: How Payment Laundering Fueled a Tech-Support Scam A payment processor knew fraudsters were terrifying ordinary people into handing over their credit cards. The company processed the charges…
TL;DR CRI Genetics earned $42.8 million (enough to pay a year’s rent for over 1,100 families) between 2017 and 2021 selling DNA tests it falsely claimed were “99.9% accurate” and backed by a “patented algorithm”. Just one smol problem tho:…
TL;DR Stratics Networks and its network of partners blasted over 23 million illegal ringless voicemail robocalls to Americans between August and November 2020 alone, targeting people on the Do Not Call Registry without their consent. The “debt relief” program these…
Water Safety / EPA Enforcement / Albany County, Wyoming Poison on Tap Akal Energy and its owner ran an untreated public water system for 50 daily customers, skipped required contamination tests for months, hid the results from the public, and…
TL;DR Kenneth Courtright ran a company called The Income Store that promised investors a guaranteed monthly income forever, backed by website advertising revenue. The company never generated enough revenue to cover those payments; instead, Courtright used money from new investors…
$2,400 Fine.Billions in Revenue.Toxic Gas. No Audit. CHS Inc. • Craigmont, Idaho • Clean Air Act Violation • EPA Settlement 2025 TL;DR The Facts CHS Inc., one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in America, stored dangerous quantities of anhydrous ammonia…
Environmental Accountability • Missouri • Clean Water Act The Lagoons That Overflowed Into Your River How Two Rivers Cattle Feeders dumped feedlot waste into Missouri’s waterways for years — without a single permit to do it. Source: EPA Administrative Order…
TL;DR Heatron, Inc., an industrial manufacturer in Leavenworth, Kansas, stored toxic materials including ferric chloride, corrosive waste, and flammable chemicals with zero proper containment, labeling, or safety training. The EPA caught Heatron with unlabeled hazardous waste buckets, open toxic containers,…
TL;DR Arxada, LLC, a New Jersey chemical corporation, imported 18 bags of the industrial pesticide Axcela into the United States through Salt Lake City on April 15, 2025, with three mismatched and contradictory establishment identification numbers across its paperwork. Federal…
TL;DR AllService Plumbing, a small Louisiana company, illegally fired three workers who supported a union drive in 2009, and an NLRB judge ordered them reinstated with full backpay plus compounding daily interest. The company never challenged the original ruling, the…