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State launches Lap-Band investigation
The California Department of Insurance is investigating the business practices of Lap-Band surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign, according to insurer Aetna Inc.
The insurance giant said in a statement that it was...Tags: Marketing, Criminal Laws, Advertising, Prosecution, Food and Drug Administration
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Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics
The maker of the Lap-Band will no longer sell its product to clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company — a blow to Southern California surgery centers that have built an empire implanting the weight-loss devices in people...Tags: Corporate Crime, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Weight, Marketing
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Inaction by regulators as weight loss surgery allegations mount
Several current or former workers for the people behind those 1-800-GET-THIN ads have made allegations about this weight-loss enterprise that government regulators should have gotten to the bottom of long ago. Taken together, the allegations are that...Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Medical Procedures and Tests, Weight, Marketing, Weight Loss Surgery
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Moscow protest draws more than 100,000 anti-Putin marchers
World NowMore than 100,000 people took to the streets Saturday in the biggest show of protest in Russia's capital since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.... -
Disbarred attorney gets 70 months in fraud
L.A. NOWA former Newport Beach attorney who was convicted last year in an investment fraud case has been sentenced to 70 months in prison. Gerald M. Shaw was indicted in 2007 on federal fraud and money laundering charges for a scheme in which he and another man... -
Apple vs. Samsung: Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban upheld in Germany
TechnologySamsung vs. Apple: Samsung was dealt a loss on Tuesday in its ongoing patent battle with Apple as the South Korean electronics maker was denied a request to overturn a ban on the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Germany.... -
Drunk drivers: Congress gets behind breath-test ignition devices
Nation NowDrunk drivers: An effort to get more states to require convicted drunk drivers to test their breath for alcohol before they can start their cars is gaining support in Congress... -
Justice Department opinion allows states to offer online gambling
Money & CompanyThe Justice Department has opened a window for states to offer their residents online gambling, saying such activity would not violate existing federal law. The legal opinion could be a boon for states looking for ways to expand their lotteries...... -
Scam watch: Bank theft, e-books, mortgage modification
Money & CompanyA Central California bank employee has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing nearly $100,000 from the accounts of two customers.... -
McManus: Oops! That was the year that wasn't
A year ago, soon after the Tunisian uprising, I demonstrated my powers of prediction in a column about the democracy movement in the Arab world. The revolution in Tunisia, I wrote, "arose from local circumstances that don't foretell what will happen...Tags: Republican Party, Tim Pawlenty, Michele M. Bachmann, Politics, Newt Gingrich
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Indiana's top elections official faces voter fraud charges
Nation NowIndiana’s top elections official arrived Tuesday morning at the Hamilton County Courthouse to face voter fraud charges.... -
EU investigating Samsung's 3G patent licensing practices
TechnologySamsung's patent lawsuits with Apple and other rivals are bringing the South Korean tech giant a bit of regulator scrutiny in the European Union. On Tuesday, the European Commission, the E.U.'s antitrust agency, said it has formally launched an...
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