US plastic surgeon who suppressed bad reviews and falsified good ones must pay $5m

A Seattle plastic surgeon must pay $3.5m to Washington State and $1.5m to 21 000 patients to resolve allegations that he pressured patients to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) then threatened them with legal and financial penalties if they tried to write bad reviews on Google, Yelp, WebMD, and other third party review platforms.The state also accused Javad Sajan of creating fake reviews by pressuring staff to write them, and of writing positive reviews himself, then sending them to an overseas contractor whom he paid to post them online.Sajan rigged “best doctor” competitions hosted by local media, the state alleged, by paying staff and contractors to vote for him as many times as allowed, even though they were not his patients. He also altered “before and after” photographs on the website of his clinic, Allure Esthetic Plastic Surgery, to make his results appear better than they were, the state claimed in…
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