EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 2:20-cv-00864-HCN • 40 min read Why Did CMS Help Pyramid Schemes Process $93 Million in Fraudulent Charges? A Utah payment processor spent over a decade opening bank accounts for scammers, lying to regulators, and coaching fraudsters…
Investigative Report • Housing • Corporate Malfeasance How Invitation Homes Milked Millions Through Illegal Hidden Fees EvilCorporations.com • FTC Case 1:24-cv-04280-SEG • 52 min read TL;DR Invitation Homes, the largest single-family home landlord in the United States with over 80,000…
EvilCorporations.com • FTC v. Cleo AI, Inc. — SDNY Case Filed March 27, 2025 • 18 min read Cleo AI Promised $250. They Gave You $20 and Billed You Anyway. A fintech app built on luring broke people with a…
TL;DR Kochava Inc., a data broker headquartered in Sandpoint, Idaho, built a commercial surveillance system that tracks the precise movements of hundreds of millions of Americans using GPS coordinates pulled from their phones, accurate to within 10 meters, and sold…
EvilCorporations.com • FTC Docket No. 192-3157 • 23 min read The Real Cost of “Affordable” LASIK Under Corporate Greed How LCA-Vision, operating as LasikPlus and Joffe MediCenter, ran a documented bait-and-switch scheme on people’s eyes — and kept doing it…
EvilCorporations.com • FTC v. FloatMe Corp., Case No. Filed December 29, 2023 • 32 min read Broke on Purpose: How FloatMe Built a Subscription Trap for America’s Most Financially Vulnerable TL;DR FloatMe Corp., co-founded by Joshua Sanchez and Ryan Cleary,…
Federal Investigation • Consumer Finance • Case No. 3:24-cv-00288 What Happens When Late-Stage Capitalism Makes Water a Luxury Aqua Finance, Inc. ran a door-to-door water treatment lending racket that left working-class families trapped in debt they never agreed to, with…
FTC Enforcement Action • Docket No. C-4802 Your Phone Was a Surveillance Device. They Sold the Recordings. EvilCorporations.com • FTC v. X-Mode Social / Outlogic, Docket No. C-4802 • 28 min read X-Mode Social and its successor Outlogic harvested precise…
The Zurixx Deception: A $104 Million Dollar Empire Built on Broken Dreams TL;DR Zurixx, LLC and its executives, including Cristopher A. Cannon, James M. Carlson, and Jeffrey D. Spangler, built a massive operation selling bogus “Real Estate Coaching” and “Business…
FTC Investigation • Case 2:24-cv-07660-SPG-JPR “Your Husband Has Angered Some People. I Suggest You Have Him Remove the Reviews.” EvilCorporations.com • FTC v. Ascend Capventures Inc. et al., Filed 09/09/2024 • 50 min read TL;DR Two men, William Basta and…