The Federal Trade Commission is sending about $905,000 in refunds to 39,977 consumers who bought Pure Green Coffee, a product that was created after Dr. Mehmet Oz talked about use of green coffee beans as a weight-loss aid on his television talk show.
President Donald Trump has nominated Oz to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that would help oversee many federal laws and regulations that affect employer-sponsored health plans, such as the Affordable Care Act rules for benefits summaries and preventive care services coverage and the No Surprises Act billing rules for plan participants who get care from out-of-network providers.
Oz — who was a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University's medical school, one of the 20 top medical schools in the world — devoted a segment of "The Dr. Oz Show" to green coffee beans in 2012.
Nichols Congleton responded by selling Pure Green Coffee through NBP Advertising, a company that marketed coffee beans through fake news websites and use of fake customer testimonials, according to the FTC.
The FTC says NBP's claims about Pure Green Coffee were false.
The FTC sued NPB and related individuals and companies in 2015. It settled with most of the defendants in 2015. In 2016, the agency won a $30 million judgment against Congleton in a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida....
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