Braswell Supplement Operations Charged With False Advertising By FTC
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Dietary supplement direct marketer Almon Glenn Braswell and four of his corporations falsely represented New Life Nutrition magazine as an "independent publication and not paid advertising," according to an 1FTC complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court May 27
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