For eight years, IM Mastery Academy sold young people a trading education backed by Bentleys and Bulgari watches. The FTC says the trainers had no trading records, the claims were baseless, and the lifestyle was the product. The receipts are now in receivership.
The state's 2025 reform was supposed to stop towing companies from selling cars out from under their owners. A year later, lawmakers learned the machine had quieter valves they had not yet closed.
France's consumer fraud authority tested more than 600 products from seven foreign online platforms and found that 75% violated EU safety rules, with nearly half of those deemed potentially dangerous. The regulator's own word for it: structural. Not a mistake. A model.
Alex Mashinsky, the man who told 1.7 million people their crypto was safe, is now sitting in a federal prison cell and writing $10 million checks to the government he defied. The rest of the bill, $4.72 billion, is suspended. Not forgiven. Suspended.