Main Street Dollars

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Clorox Manufacturing Company of Puerto Rico recalled about 6.3 million bottles of scented Mistolin and Lestoil cleaners on September 3, 2026, and the company’s own recall notice makes a point that’s easy to miss in a headline built around the Clorox name: these products were never distributed outside Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…

Clorox is refunding 6.3 million bottles of Mistolin and Lestoil cleaner

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in Recalls

Clorox Manufacturing Company of Puerto Rico is recalling about 6.3 million bottles of scented Mistolin and Lestoil multi-purpose cleaners after testing turned up the possibility of bacterial contamination. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on September 3, 2026, and the company’s remedy is a full refund, not a replacement bottle or a…

He owes $77,683,091.96 after spending investor money on a plane, a cabin and an $80,000 hunting trip

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A federal judge in Utah ordered Matthew Shane Perkins to repay investors $77,683,091.96, an amount spelled out down to the penny in the court’s restitution order. That number isn’t money already returned to anyone. It’s the debt a judge says Perkins now owes on top of a 15-year prison sentence handed down September 3, 2026.…

A former Regions Bank employee is permanently barred from banking over check fraud

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A former relationship banker at a Regions Bank branch in Memphis has been permanently prohibited from working in banking again after federal regulators found she took part in a scheme that cashed counterfeit and fraudulent checks. The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors finalized the consent order in early August and announced it publicly days later,…

The three employees banned this month worked at Centra in Indiana, Tongass in Alaska and OneAZ in Arizona

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Three credit unions in three different states each had a former employee permanently barred from the industry this year, and the National Credit Union Administration named every institution and individual when it announced the orders. None of the three credit unions is in any regulatory trouble itself; each order applies only to the person who…

Three former credit union employees are barred for life from any insured institution

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The National Credit Union Administration has permanently barred three former credit union employees from ever working in banking again, using an enforcement tool the agency applies more often than most account holders realize. The orders close out separate misconduct cases at three federally insured credit unions without a criminal trial, based on each person’s written…

A lab reported skin cancer results after its own control samples fell out of range

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When a lab runs a genetic test, it isn’t just testing the patient’s sample. Built into every test run is a “control” sample with a known, expected result, run alongside the real one specifically to prove the equipment and chemistry are working correctly that day. According to the Justice Department, a California skin-testing company reported…

A skin cancer testing company will pay up to $5 million after billing Medicare for results its own checks had flagged

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in Settlements & Claims

DermTech, the California lab behind an adhesive-patch skin test marketed as a needle-free alternative to a mole biopsy, has reached a deal with the Justice Department over how it billed Medicare for that test. The company, now unwinding in Chapter 11 bankruptcy as DTech Liquidating Inc., is turning over an allowed unsecured bankruptcy claim of…

A hospital that fails to post its real prices can be fined more than $2 million in a year, and the government names it

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in Consumer Rights

Hospitals have been required to post their real prices online since 2021, and for years the rule had a reputation for being toothless. It isn’t. Under federal regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can fine a single noncompliant hospital more than $2 million over a full year of violations, and it publishes the…

A federal watchdog traced $12.7 billion in suspected crypto romance scams

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