TL;DR Marco Santarelli used his company Norada Capital Management to raise at least $62 million from hundreds of investors across the country, promising safe, stable, retirement-friendly returns of 12–17% per year. Norada’s actual portfolio was stuffed with bankrupt retailers’ intellectual…
TL;DR Joshua Wander, Steven Pasko, and Damien Alfalla ran a $237 million (enough to fund a small city’s annual budget) investment scheme that they knew was built on a rotting financial foundation. They secretly overdrew a credit line by $300…
EPA Region 5 • Docket No. CAA-05-2024-0027 • Clean Air Act Enforcement How MetroMetals Northwest Gambled with the Ozone Layer EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. CAA-05-2024-0027 • 18 min read A scrap metal giant with six facilities across three states accepted…
TL;DR Appalachian Timber Services (ATS), a wood-treating plant in Sutton, West Virginia, let creosote, a listed federal hazardous waste, drip freely onto soil, gravel, concrete, and asphalt at its facility, with no adequate containment system in place. A U.S. EPA…
Environmental Accountability / Clean Water Act Violations / King George, Virginia They Let It Flow Into the River Virginia Truck Parts, Inc. ran a nine-acre salvage yard for years while oil, antifreeze, brake fluid, and transmission fluid washed directly into…
TL;DR Smart Maintenance, LLC, a Missouri company, renovated a 1929 apartment building in St. Louis without obtaining required EPA lead-safe certification — meaning their workers were legally unqualified to handle surfaces likely containing lead paint. The EPA inspection on October…
TL;DR A nursing home company called Spring Creek bought a facility in 2021 and immediately told its workers’ union to get lost, refusing to bargain over wages, benefits, or any terms of employment. The National Labor Relations Board charged Spring…
TL;DR C.H. Robinson, one of the largest logistics companies in the world, forced employees to sign non-compete agreements so broad that courts found they could legally block a former worker from doing business with anyone who potentially could become a…
Investigative Report • Environmental Justice • Toxic Waste They Buried the Poison and Lost Track of It Chemical Waste Management runs the largest hazardous waste dump in America. Federal inspectors showed up. What they found inside should terrify everyone. EvilCorporations.com…
Environmental Enforcement · Clean Air Act · EPA Region 5 Breathing Their Profits American Iron and Metal ran a Colorado scrap yard that vented ozone-destroying refrigerants into the atmosphere, kept zero documentation, and walked away with a fine smaller than…