[coldtea]

>If the companies are not using it for that purpose and telling the government something different then they are committing fraud.

The kind of fraud that's profitable, happens regularly and nobody gets called for.

[protomyth]

Well, this is an article about Disney getting called on it via a lawsuit.

[coldtea]

A civil lawsuit as the sibling comment notes.

For which they'll settle or pay some insignificant fine, and continue about their same business.

[DrScump]

The key word being (civil) lawsuit. Neither state nor Federal governments pursued any criminal or civil action on their own.