ATLANTA — An Atlanta-based business accused of preying on Black people has a choice: Stop doing business or risk paying the state nearly $2.2 million. This follows a year long 11Alive News investigation.
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. It orders the company, along with another associated company under the name Derobis Enterprises, and Robinson individually to stop doing business in Georgia.
11Alive News Investigates has talked with more than a dozen people from across the country who say they paid Beauty Supply Institute thousands of dollars to consult, supply, stage and open their own store…