Herbalife’s $200 million settlement with the government didn’t quite squash all of the nutrition-shake company’s fraudulent business practices, a new Miami class action claims.

The lawsuit is the first to go after the Los Angeles-based multilevel marketing company’s top distributors, claiming they misled hundreds of thousands of people into paying for “success training seminars” and other events by saying attendance would ultimately make them rich. Herbalife and nearly four dozen distributors are named as defendants in the racketeering and fraud case.

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