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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Sale Slash
Penalty: $10,000,000
Year: 2016
Date: February 8, 2016
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A Glendale, California-based operation known as Sale Slash will stop using spam emails and fake news websites with phony celebrity endorsements and unsupported efficacy claims to promote its supposed weight-loss products. The court order resolving the FTC's charges will result in Sale Slash LLC and five other defendants turning over assets that, combined with those already secured by a court-appointed receiver, total approximately $10 million, the bulk of which will be returned to consumers who bought the bogus supplements.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
Facility City: Glendale
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.