Investigations / Financial Fraud / Pyramid Schemes They Took $1.24 Billion From People Who Couldn’t Afford to Lose It The FTC and State of Nevada have sued IM Mastery Academy, its founders, and its top earners for running a pyramid…
TL;DR A car auction company called Alliance Auto Auction of Dallas allegedly conspired with two of Lone Star Cleburne Autoplex’s own employees to steal money directly from Lone Star. Instead of answering for that alleged embezzlement in open court, Alliance…
EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Report — August 2023 AT&T: How Millions Were Siphoned from Worker RetirementsThe Hidden Fee Scandal That Betrayed Hundreds of Thousands of Employees TL;DR AT&T let its retirement plan’s recordkeeper, Fidelity, quietly collect millions of dollars in hidden…
EvilCorporations.com | Labor & Wage Theft | August 2023 Exposed: Nonprofit Labor Scheme They Called It Therapy. The Courts Called It Wage Theft. TL;DR Cenikor Foundation, a nonprofit drug rehab, sent thousands of patients to work for companies like Walmart,…
TL;DR A Denver nail salon chain called Ella Bliss Beauty Bar forced its nail technicians to clean the business, including the bathrooms, and paid them absolutely nothing for that labor. The employer also withheld tips to pressure workers into finishing…
TL;DR The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), the largest bridge organization in the world with over 162,000 members, denied overtime pay to its Tournament Directors for years by misclassifying them as exempt administrative employees under federal law. A Department of…
EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Report Wage Theft & Legal Coercion Papa John’s Kept Delivery Drivers Below Minimum Wage, Then Illegally Tried to Silence Them Filed: July 20, 2023 | Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals | Louisville, Kentucky TL;DR Papa John’s…
Corporate Accountability / Health Insurance The Insurance Company That Told Doctors What They Could and Couldn’t Do Source: California Supreme Court Decision — California Medical Association v. Aetna Health of California Inc. — July 17, 2023 TL;DR Aetna Health of…
Workplace Retaliation / Corporate Misconduct Fired with Slurs for Trying to Keep People Alive Alki David Productions, Inc. — California Court of Appeal, Certified for Publication July 14, 2023 TL;DR Karl Zirpel, VP of Operations at Alki David Productions, Inc.…
Workers’ Rights / ERISA Fraud They Wrote the Rules, Then Robbed the Vault Investigative Report | EvilCorporations.com Source: U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, August 11, 2023 TL;DR Fringe Benefit Group (FBG) controlled the retirement and healthcare trust funds of…