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Square One Development Group / Consumer Law Protection

Status: Defunct / out of business
Also known as: Consumer Law Protection · source: court document

Government enforcement record

Findings: adjudicated, orders, audit findings
2026-03-30U.S. District Court, E.D. Missouri (4:22-cv-01243-JMB)Summary judgment + permanent injunction + monetary judgment

Court entered a $45,485,702.00 civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury and a separate $95,243,688.50 consumer-redress judgment. These are two separate court-ordered amounts; we never add them together, and only the civil penalty is a penalty.

civil penalty $45,485,702  ·  consumer redress $95,243,688
Archived · 2026-03-30SHA-256 86663df1ad…
2024-10-04Alaska Superior Court / Alaska Department of LawCourt orders (penalties, restitution, sales bans)

Alaska orders: $310,000 in civil penalties plus $177,349 in restitution and five-year sales bans. Recorded from the Alaska Department of Law's own release; the underlying court order is not posted.

civil penalty $310,000  ·  restitution $177,349
Archived · 2024-10-04SHA-256 d6eb582523…
Pending allegations: unproven, disputed

These are allegations from pending matters. They are unproven, the companies dispute them, and they are never counted in any total.

2022-11-21FTC / DOJ / Wisconsin (E.D. Mo. 4:22-cv-01243)Federal complaint (16 defendants)

Federal complaint alleging a timeshare-exit scheme; pleads consumers paid 'more than $90 million.' ALLEGATION at filing; later adjudicated (see 2026).

Archived · 2022-11-21SHA-256 beeae55ca7…

What the company says · what the record shows

The company's own guarantee
“the Company will happily refund 100% of your fees paid to Square One”
Square One FAQ (2020 archive) · captured 2020
Summary of the record
Court entered a $45,485,702.00 civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury and a separate $95,243,688.50 consumer-redress judgment. These are two separate court-ordered amounts; we never add them together, and only the civil penalty is a penalty.
U.S. District Court, E.D. Missouri (4:22-cv-01243-JMB) · 2026-03-30
Third-party ratings · easy to game, recorded not endorsed
BBB rating F; 105 complaints; Pattern-of-Complaints and Government-Actions alerts · BBB profile, 2026
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