TL;DR Eversource Energy charges Massachusetts customers $102 every time their power is shut off and turned back on for nonpayment, a fee the lawsuit argues bears no relationship to the actual cost of flipping a switch. Restoring service costs Eversource…
Environmental Misconduct • Canton, Ohio • Clean Air Act Months of Dirty Air, One Tiny Fine EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. CAA-05-2024-0038 • 17 min read TL;DR Marathon Petroleum’s refinery in Canton, Ohio pumped illegal levels of toxic gases into the…
Clean Water Act Enforcement • Docket CWA-05-2024-0018 The 5-Year Cover-Up That Put Profits Over Illinois’ Kishwaukee River EvilCorporations.com • EPA Region 5 Enforcement Action • 20 min read TL;DR Elgiloy Specialty Metals, a wire manufacturer in Sycamore, Illinois, spent five…
Federal Investigation • Franchise Fraud • Case No. 2:22-CV-825 Burgerim’s “Business in a Box” Scammed Millions EvilCorporations.com • Case 2:22-CV-825, U.S. District Court, Central District of California • 21 min read TL;DR Burgerim and its CEO, Oren Loni, sold more…
TL;DR Arrow Pipeline, LLC operates a natural gas gathering and compressor station on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Dunn County, North Dakota, the home territory of the Three Affiliated Tribes. The facility sits on tribal land, which means the…
EvilCorporations.com • CFPB File No. 2025-CFPB-0002 • 61 min read The Misconduct Credit Scores Are Broken, and Equifax Is Making It Worse A federal consent order has confirmed what millions of Americans already knew from bitter personal experience: Equifax has…
Chemical Industry / Environmental Enforcement Oxy Vinyls Waited 7+ Hours Before Warning Anyone About a Deadly Chemical Leak EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. CERCLA-02-2024-2009 • 15 min read TL;DR At 1:03 a.m. on May 30, 2023, Oxy Vinyls, LP — operating…
The Anatomy of a Scam: How Restoro Faked Your PC Errors to Steal Millions THE SHORT VERSION The Players: Two Cyprus-based companies, Restoro Cyprus Limited and Reimage Cyprus Limited. The Scam: Since at least January 2018, they ran a tech…
Investigative Report / Product Safety Fraud The Snowflake Was a Lie: Prinx Chengshan Sold 541,000 Tires That Couldn’t Grip Winter Roads EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 2:25-cv-00194, E.D. Pa. • 17 min read TL;DR Prinx Chengshan Tire North America sold over…
Class Action Investigation Bank of America’sRewards Bait-and-Switch EvilCorporations.com • Case 1:25-cv-10123 • District of Massachusetts • 18 min read TL;DR Bank of America advertised, confirmed in writing, and contractually promised 70,000 bonus miles plus 100 XP to customers who spent…