SEC Files Fraud Charges Alleging a Multi-Million Dollar Scheme that Targeted Retirement Accounts

SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Safeguard Metals LLC, and its owner, Jeffrey Santulan, for engaging in a multi-million dollar fraudulent scheme involving hundreds of investors who were at or near retirement age.

Drug distributors, J&J to pay $590 mln to settle U.S. tribes' opioid claims

REUTERS

The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) have agreed to pay $590 million to resolve claims by Native American tribes that the companies fueled an opioid epidemic in their communities, according to court filings. read more »

AG Ferguson files lawsuit against Center for COVID Control over invalid and false test results

WA AG

Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit against Center for COVID Control, an Illinois-based company that ran several testing centers in Washington state, for providing invalid, false and delayed COVID-19 test results to Washingtonians, or sometimes providing no results at all. The company’s unlawful practices included storing tests in garbage bags for over a week rather than properly refrigerating them, and backdating sample collection dates so that stale samples would still be processed. read more »