Cox Media Group will pay $880,000 to settle FTC charges that it sold small businesses an AI service it claimed listened to consumers through their phones. The service did not listen. It resold email lists.
Daniella Vasquez worked the books at a Shavano Park homebuilder and a second San Antonio employer. Between May 2021 and September 2022 she moved $759,235.74 to herself and her husband, hiding the wires behind labels that looked like tax payments. On May 13, 2026, a federal judge gave her 51 months and called her lucky.
A federal indictment unsealed in Chicago accuses an Orland Park freight company owner of billing for shipments that never happened and inflating bakery franchises before selling them. The receipts are parked in his garage.