TL;DR Joseph Neal Sanberg, co-founder of the “green” fintech company Aspiration Partners, ran a two-year scheme to fabricate $44 million (enough to fully fund a mid-sized public school district for a year) in fake revenue using friends, small businesses, and…
Corporate Accountability Investigation The Legal Defense That Blames Asbestos Victims for Their Own Cancer A pipe manufacturer spent decades selling asbestos cement pipe without adequate warnings. When a dying man sued, its lawyers argued he was too experienced to deserve…
EvilCorporations.com | Investigative Finance Voyager’s $1.7 Billion Con How Voyager Digital and its CEO turned everyday people’s crypto savings into the fuel for a scheme the government itself called “indistinguishable from a Ponzi.” Filed: October 12, 2023 | CFTC v.…
TL;DR A chemical fire at MPG Industries’ facility in Joliet, Illinois contaminated approximately 3 acres of land, including farmland, and forced a federal Superfund designation. The EPA spent taxpayer money cleaning up the mess, then sued MPG Industries, Millridge Industries,…
Environmental Enforcement • U.S. Virgin Islands The Real (Human) Price of Cruzan Rum Source: EPA Region 2 Consent Agreement & Final Order • Effective August 20, 2025 TL;DR Cruzan Rum’s distillery in Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands stored hazardous…
Investigative Report | Public Health | Indiana & Michigan Homeworks Construction Gambled Lead Paint In Children’s Bodies For Pennies On The Dollar Source: U.S. v. Homeworks Construction, Inc. — Consent Decree filed September 4, 2025 | EvilCorporations.com TL;DR Homeworks Construction,…
Investigation | Financial Markets | Sep. 9, 2025 The Phantom Orders: How Flatiron’s “Spoofing” Rigged the Market Against You A Colorado trader and his Illinois firm placed fake buy and sell orders more than 1,900 times to trick the market…
The Threat Beneath the Streets This here was a story that unfolded in silence, deep beneath the pavement of a Baltimore neighborhood. At the Brody Trucking Co., Inc. facility in Baltimore, two massive tanks lie buried in the earth. One…
Corporate Fraud Investigation Eli Lilly Defrauded $183M from Medicaid for More Than a Decade Source: U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit • Decided September 11, 2025 • United States ex rel. Streck v. Eli Lilly and Company TL;DR From 2005…
Financial Regulation / Due Process / Wall Street Accountability The System Didn’t Find Him Innocent. It Just Ran Out of Time. Source: FINRA National Adjudicatory Council Decision — Complaint No. 2014039285401r — Dated June 6, 2025 TL;DR FINRA regulators found…