{"id":3448,"date":"2014-04-17T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/illinois-investigates-herbalife-as-federal-state-probes-grow\/"},"modified":"2014-04-17T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:08:31","slug":"illinois-investigates-herbalife-as-federal-state-probes-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/17\/illinois-investigates-herbalife-as-federal-state-probes-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois investigates Herbalife as federal, state probes grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/illinois-investigates-herbalife-federal-state-probes-grow-190732437--sector.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-17T190914Z_1_CBREA3G1H7G00_RTROPTP_2_HERBALIFE-RESULTS.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"An Herbalife logo is shown on a poster at a clinic in the Mission District in San Francisco\" align=\"left\" title=\"An Herbalife logo is shown on a poster at a clinic in the Mission District in San Francisco\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan&#8217;s office said on Thursday it is investigating Herbalife, joining other state and federal probes of allegations that the weight loss and nutrition company is running a pyramid scheme. Madigan&#8217;s office was urged to look into the company months ago by civil rights groups, which claimed it was a pyramid scheme targeting minorities. Hedge fund manager William Ackman was the first to call Herbalife a fraud and placed a $1 billion bet against the company in 2012. The company denies the allegations, and high-profile investors such as Carl Icahn, George Soros and Dan Loeb have supported the company in the past by taking stakes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan&#8217;s office said on Thursday it is investigating Herbalife, joining other state and federal probes of allegations that the weight loss and nutrition company is running a pyramid scheme. Madigan&#8217;s office was urged to look into the company months ago by civil rights groups, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}