Private Equity Firm Engineered Texas Anesthesia Monopoly to Inflate Prices Corporate Misconduct Accountability Project U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. · FTC Antitrust Enforcement Action Private Equity Firm Engineered Texas Anesthesia Monopoly to Inflate Prices FTC alleges Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe…
TL;DR A father built two real estate LLCs in Wake County, North Carolina as an estate planning tool to pass 68 acres of undeveloped land to his four sons. Two of those sons, Jim and Charles, were made the only…
Deception for Dollars: The Bountiful Company’s Amazon Review Fraud The Facts Federal Trade Commission Complaint C-4791 alleges that The Bountiful Company, maker of Nature’s Bounty supplements, systematically faked Amazon reviews for its products throughout 2020 and 2021. They exploited an…
The Hagerstown Gas Leak That Wasn’t The Facts: Hagerstown Gas & Go, a Maryland gas station, had an underground gasoline tank whose leak detection system failed at least 14 times between May 19 and June 13, 2022. The company, 1000…
EPA Region 7 Enforcement • Docket No. CAA-07-2024-0077 • Hannibal, Missouri They Disabled the Alarm So It Would Never Ring EvilCorporations.com • Continental Cement Company, LLC • 28 min read TL;DR Continental Cement Company operates a hazardous waste burning cement…
Environmental Enforcement • Kern County, CA When the Well Runs Over A power company punched waste into the earth without a working well. The fluid came back up. The penalty was roughly what a mid-career engineer makes in a year.…
Clean Water Act Violation • EPA Region 5 • Docket CWA-05-2024-0016 For 8 Years, Evonik Held a Clean River Hostage With 2 Million Gallons of Oil EvilCorporations.com • EPA Region 5 Consent Agreement & Final Order, Docket No. CWA-05-2024-0016 •…
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…