The Georgia Attorney General’s Office has ordered the Beauty Supply Institute to close or face a $2.2 million fine.
Beauty Supply Institute reached an agreement after allegedly exploiting hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs, many of them Black women. The order follows a months-long investigation into the firm’s business training programs and marketing claims by 11Alive.
“According to Fulton County court records, the state entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance agreement with Beauty Supply Institute and its founder Devin Robinson,” the news outlet reports. “It orders the company, along with another associated company under the name Derobis Enterprises, and Robinson individually to stop doing business in Georgia.” Read more at www.blackenterprise.com.
