RICO

February 6, 2023 A class action claims the operators of payday lender First Loan have attempted to evade Indiana usury laws by way of an illegal “rent-a-tribe” scheme.

December 16, 2022 The operators of Minto Money have fraudulently hidden behind tribal sovereign immunity to circumvent Illinois interest rate caps, a proposed class action alleges.

December 8, 2022 A class action alleges VBit Technologies, Advanced Mining Group and several individuals engaged in a fraudulent Bitcoin mining scam that in reality functioned as “a massive Ponzi scheme."

December 7, 2022 Actelion Pharmaceuticals faces a class action that alleges the company has illegally schemed to raise the unit price and quantity dispersed of certain high blood pressure drugs.

November 28, 2022 Two lawsuits allege Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan illegally benefited from providing financial support for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking activities.

October 4, 2022 A class action alleges Sentara RMH Medical Center and United Healthcare have overcharged patients for services rendered at Sentara’s outpatient centers.

October 3, 2022 More than a dozen plaintiffs allege they were scammed into paying Just a Bit of Coin, Ltd for Bitcoin mining machines that the company never intended to deliver.

July 13, 2022 A class action alleges Steep Hill Inc. has violated federal racketeering law by intentionally overstating the amount of THC in the marijuana it sells to medical patients in Arkansas.

June 23, 2022 A class action claims Terraform Labs sold unregistered securities and misled investors with regard to the stability of terraUSD and Luna.

June 20, 2022 A lawsuit alleges Green Arrow Solutions, who claims to be affiliated with a Native American tribe, has loaned money to Indiana residents at excessive interest rates.

June 3, 2022 A class action claims Opportunity Financial operated an illegal “rent-a-bank” lending scheme through which borrowers were charged usurious interest rates.

June 1, 2022 Penn Capital Funding, MapCap Funding and those who run the merchant cash advance companies face a class action over their alleged use of an apparent loophole in Connecticut law to collect upon unlawful debts.

May 16, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Acella Pharmaceuticals has for years falsely advertised its NP Thyroid medication.

April 20, 2022 A class action claims Fast Day Loans has violated Indiana law by issuing high-interest loans to state residents through a purported "rent-a-tribe" scheme.

April 12, 2022 The individuals and tribal entities behind payday lender 500FastCash face a proposed class action over their alleged practice of charging illegal, usurious interest rates on loans in nearly every state.

April 8, 2022 Arrowhead Advance has made usurious loans to Illinois residents while attempting to hide behind the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s sovereign immunity, a lawsuit alleges.

March 29, 2022 A class action alleges SMART Alabama and AGWM United have for years “cheated the United States immigration system” to employ Mexican nationals as underpaid auto parts production line workers.

March 16, 2022 A class action alleges online payday lender FirstLoan.com has illegally tried to skirt Illinois usury laws by claiming to be affiliated with a small Native American tribe.

March 7, 2022 A class action alleges Peoples Gas, WEC Energy Group and a public relations firm have conspired to conceal and misrepresent the scope of the contamination of an underground aquifer in rural Illinois.

March 2, 2022 A lawsuit claims 605 Lending has operated a “rent-a-tribe” lending scheme whereby it purports to be operated by a Native American tribe to avoid state usury laws.

January 27, 2022 A class action alleges West Side Lending has attempted to hide behind a purported affiliation with the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin in making loans with usurious interest rates.

January 19, 2022 A proposed class action alleges PayPal has unilaterally seized funds from users’ accounts without cause or any fair or due process.

January 10, 2022 A class action claims the operators of MaxLend.com have executed an unlawful “rent-a-tribe” scheme to charge consumers usurious interest on small loans.

January 7, 2022 A class action alleges Bright Lending wrongfully holds itself out as owned and operated by a Native American tribe so as to charge borrowers exorbitant interest rates on small loans.

January 5, 2022 A class action alleges the NFL and the NY Giants and NY Jets have “siphoned” billions from interstate commerce by branding the New Jersey-located franchises as New York teams.

December 15, 2021 State Auto Group faces claims that it stole money from customers by duping them into paying for extra insurance coverage already included in their policies.

December 14, 2021 A class action alleges payday lender AvailBlue has operated what can be described as a rent-a-tribe scheme to charge usurious interest rates on small loans.

November 3, 2021 A class action alleges Bank of America has used a fee-maximizing automated servicing platform to charge defaulted or at-risk-of-default borrowers for multiple, repetitive property inspections.

September 30, 2021 A class action alleges RoFX.net and a cadre of shell cos. have run “nothing more than a front” for a massive scheme whereby they’ve defrauded investors worldwide.

September 1, 2021 A class action aims to represent the victims of an alleged $110 million Ponzi scheme supposedly conceived and perpetrated by investment advisers at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.’s Atlanta office.

August 12, 2021 A RICO class action details what’s alleged to be a racketeering scheme involving the sale of and refusal to refund the total funds paid for supposedly counterfeit nitrile gloves.

August 9, 2021 A class action alleges Wells Fargo has extracted improper property inspection fees from homeowners who’ve fallen behind on their mortgages.

August 9, 2021 A lawsuit accuses Yellowstone Capital, LLC of engaging in predatory lending practices that have financially injured small business owners and their families.

August 5, 2021 A lawsuit claims LDF Holdings and Midaaswi have operated an illegal "rent-a-tribe" lending scheme whereby they’ve charged usurious interest rates for small loans.

June 29, 2021 A class action alleges an apparent favorite-chef contest was a “cleverly designed lottery” whereby the winner was the person who had the most money spent on their behalf.

June 18, 2021 Cinergy Health & Life, the National Congress of Employers and Companion Life Insurance Company have deceived unsuspecting term life insurance certificate buyers, a class action alleges.

June 9, 2021 Seeman Holtz has promoted and sold securities in the form of promissory notes despite not being registered to do so, a class action alleges.

May 17, 2021 A class action alleges acclaimed trainer Bob Baffert has engaged in “multiple and repeated” acts of doping and entering horses into races—including the Kentucky Derby—in what amounts to a pattern of illegal racketeering activity and gambling.

May 13, 2021 A class action alleges Bank of America has used an automated default mortgage servicing platform to “illegally, unfairly, and fraudulently” charge defaulted or at-risk-of-default borrowers for multiple and repetitive “property inspections.”

May 4, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Louisiana State University has systemically failed to address known issues in its response to reports of sexual misconduct.

April 8, 2021 A lawsuit alleges several baby food manufacturers conspired to conceal a “massive food fraud scheme” concerning the contamination of baby food with toxic heavy metals.

April 2, 2021 An alleged “multi-year fraudulent scheme” involving a so-called tax-savings strategy based on the donation of inflated real estate for purported conservation purposes is at the center of a class action lawsuit.

February 9, 2021 A class action claims Ambassador Captive Solutions, Performance Insurance Company and Goldenstar Specialty Insurance have for years sold counterfeit and non-existent policies, including to youth sports leagues.

December 4, 2020 A class action alleges Diamond Resorts has unlawfully passed the burden of its operating expenses onto timeshare owners in the form of inflated annual fees.

November 11, 2020 Fifty-four plaintiffs allege Dean Vagnozzi, John W. Pauciulo and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott were among a number of players in a fraudulent merchant cash advance investment scheme.

July 28, 2020 A class action alleges Wells Fargo has placed certain mortgages into forbearance under the CARES Act without authorization to do so.

July 9, 2020 A class action claims Pfizer and Meridian Medical Technologies have manipulated EpiPen expiration date numbers in order to force consumers to buy more refills of the device.

July 2, 2020 Three companies face a class action alleging they conspired to artificially inflate prices for single phone calls made by prison and jail inmates to those on the outside.

July 1, 2020 A class action has been filed against a number of purported health insurance companies who allegedly sold sham health insurance that provides “little to no value.”

April 15, 2020 Cigna and Viant face a health insurance plan participant's claims that the companies have illegally underpaid for out-of-network behavioral health benefits.