TL;DR Randolph Jay Forrest and co-owners at an Iowa used car dealership spent nine years (2012–2021) rolling back odometers on at least 47 cars, falsifying titles, and flipping them to unsuspecting buyers. Some odometers were wound back by as much…
Home Rescue?Lead Hazard Left Behind. A South Carolina renovation company worked inside a pre-1978 home without ever telling the EPA it existed. The federal government caught them mid-job. TL;DR Kym Petrie, LLC, operating as “Goin’ South Home Rescue” in Greenville,…
Investigation: Financial Misconduct • PNC Investments LLC • FINRA Enforcement PNC Let Brokers Churn Annuities Undetected for Years. The Fine? $200,000. For at least three years, PNC Investments ran 1,500 branch offices and 1,200 registered representatives without any real system…
Environmental Crime Report West Virginia • August 2025 • Clean Water Act Enforcement Concrete in the River Claxton Smith Concrete Company dumped chemicals into West Virginia’s rivers from three separate facilities for years. The EPA fined them $55,000 (about what…
TL;DR A hacker broke into a Rialto Markets employee’s email and sat there, undetected, for over three months, reading the Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and home addresses of 4,400+ customers. While inside that email account, the hacker then…
Fraud & Ponzi Schemes • Investment Fraud • Florida She Promised to Double Your Money. She Bought a Cruise Instead. Carole A. Liston collected $5.7 million from over 200 everyday investors with promises of 350% annual returns. The SEC says…
TL;DR A tech CEO named Amir Golestan and his company Micfo, LLC fabricated over a dozen fake businesses and fictional corporate officers to steal 1.3 million IP addresses from the nonprofit that controls America’s internet infrastructure. Golestan pocketed $3.3 million…
Investigative Report • Health Privacy • Class Action Filed August 13, 2025 Your Heart Rate. Your Stress. Your Pregnancy. Sold. WHOOP promised your most intimate physiological data was “always protected.” A federal class action lawsuit says the company secretly embedded…
TL;DR Ross Haghighat sat on the board of directors of a biotech company called Chinook Therapeutics while it was secretly negotiating a $40/share buyout with pharmaceutical giant Novartis. Instead of keeping that information confidential, Haghighat leaked the tip to his…
TL;DR For six years (2010–2016), Hawaii luxury resort group Mauna Kea charged customers a mandatory service fee, kept part of it, and told workers and guests almost nothing specific about where the money actually went. The disclosure they used said…