In November 2019, the United States Department of Justice accused two former executive officers of the company for bribing Chinese officials, including government agencies. The firm made that move in order to get direct selling licenses, get involved into government investigations and try to pull out negative media reports about it. According to the investigation, the alleged bribery claims happened in the period between 2007 and 2016. In order to resolve those claims, in August 2020, Herbalife agreed to pay $123 million to the US Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.