{"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:\/\/localhealthcareaz.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) \u2013 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan\u2019s 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\u2019s 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) \u2013 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan\u2019s 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\u2019s 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:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}