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Seattle plastic surgery provider accused of posting fake positive reviews must pay $5M
A Seattle-area plastic surgery provider accused of threatening patients over negative reviews and posting fake positive ones must pay $5 million to the state attorney general’s office and thousands of Washington patients.
The consent decree filed Monday resolves a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Bob Ferguson in December 2022, The Seattle Times reported. “The cooperative settlement, while not admitting fault and resolving claims asserted by both sides, allows Allure Esthetic to continue to focus on its core mission of providing compassionate care to patients,” O’Leary said. The complaint accused Allure of illegal business practices including artificially inflating its ratings on Yelp and Google by posting fake positive reviews and suppressing negative ones that were real.
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