The Federal Trade Commission is giving $12 million in refund payments to those duped by a Utah company associated with multiple HGTV stars.
Zurixx LLC lured students into taking expensive seminars on house flipping. The company agreed to a settlement in February 2022 after it was accused of using false earning claims to draw in would-be real estate entrepreneurs.
Some participants paid tens of thousands of dollars to take part in the Zurixx seminars. The FTC said Zurixx owners Christopher Cannon, James Carlson, and Jeffrey Spangler partnered with home-improvement TV personalities.
They included Tarek and Christina El Moussa, Hilary Farr, Peter Souhleris, and Dave Seymour of A&E’s Flipping Boston, among others.
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