Watchdog Journal's Government desk is our enforcement desk: it tracks what regulators and courts do about wrongdoing elsewhere, not officials themselves. This is the second edition of our recurring roundup, drawing together several of the month's largest actions across our other five desks into one running record.
Corporations
SEC · Litigated complaint · 28 May 2026. Texas resident Nathan Fuller was charged with raising $12.3 million from roughly 150 investors based on claims of proprietary AI-based crypto trading bots performing high-frequency arbitrage. The allegations remain contested and unproven in court. Read the full report →DOCUMENTED
Institutions
DOJ + HHS · Coordinated national takedown · 2026. The largest health care fraud enforcement action in U.S. history charged more than 450 defendants in schemes totaling billions of dollars, including a hospice wound-care kickback scheme whose proceeds allegedly funded a Ferrari and a Bulgari necklace. Read the full report →DOCUMENTED
Fraud & Deception
FTC · Settlement · April 2026. Multilevel marketing company Forever Living and its executives are now permanently barred from deceptive earnings claims, after the FTC found at least 77% of recruited participants made no money in a typical year, and nearly 90% had not recouped their startup cost after two years. Read the full report →DOCUMENTED
Media
FTC · Settlement · December 2025. Grocery platform Instacart agreed to pay $60 million in refunds over advertised "free" delivery that wasn't, and subscription enrollment without clear consumer consent. Read the full report →DOCUMENTED
Public Figures
India, multiple police jurisdictions · Ongoing enforcement · 2025–2026. Separate credential-forgery networks in Kerala, Kanpur, and Delhi were dismantled by different regional police forces, illustrating a fragmented but persistent market in fake academic degrees. Read our original report →DOCUMENTED
What this edition shows
Five more cases, five more industries — crypto investing, hospice care, multilevel marketing, grocery delivery, and academic credentialing across an entire country's police jurisdictions. Each involves a credibility signal that regulators or investigators allege was manufactured rather than earned: an AI trading credential, a treatment plan billed without medical necessity, an earnings projection built on cherry-picked outliers, a pricing claim that didn't match the checkout screen, and a printed seal that looked exactly like the real thing.
The throughline across every edition of the Ledger remains the same regardless of industry: the gap between what an institution, a company, or an individual claims about itself and what the documentary record actually shows, closed only when a regulator, prosecutor, or police force did the work of checking. The Enforcement Ledger will continue tracking these actions as they become public.
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