Wisner Baum has filed the first federal RICO class action lawsuit against H&R Block, Meta and Google over an alleged joint scheme to install spyware that would scrape private tax return information for profit, the Los Angeles-based firm announced Wednesday.

The suit was jointly filed with Pendley, Baudin & Coffin and Coffin Law in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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