TL;DR Precision Drilling Corp. refused to pay oil rig workers for the time they spent suiting up in legally required fire, chemical, and crush-resistant safety gear before every single shift. The workers filed suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act;…
TL;DR Jason Buma died in 2015 on a work trip to Texas. His employer, Providence Corp. Development (d/b/a Miller Heiman, Inc.), immediately denied workers’ compensation death benefits to his widow Kaycean and his child Delaney. Miller Heiman and its claims…
SEC Enforcement ✦ Securities Fraud ✦ Penny Stock Manipulation Shell Game: How Ongkaruck Sripetch Built a Fake Empire and Stole Millions From Everyday Investors A network of ghost companies, fabricated stock activity, and a decade-long fraud finally meets a federal…
Wage Theft Investigation Verified Court Record FLSA Violation Workers Fight Back Six Minutes at a Time: How St. Luke’s Health System Quietly Stole 74,000 Hours From Its Own Nurses and Staff Investigative Report | Source: U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth…
TL;DR A major regional bank, FNB Corporation and its subsidiaries, secretly plotted to destroy a smaller competitor insurance firm by stealing its top employees, its clients, and ultimately forcing it to sell at a bargain price. The bank’s internal documents…
Corporate Misconduct McDonald’s Trapped Its Own Workers. A Federal Court Just Called It Out. EvilCorporations.com | Labor Rights Investigation | U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit TL;DR McDonald’s buried a clause in every single franchise agreement across the entire country…
Toxic Waste / EPA Enforcement / Plainwell, Michigan No Records, No Labels, No Plan A company built to handle some of America’s most dangerous industrial waste ran its PCB storage facility in Plainwell, Michigan with unmarked containers, no spill plan,…
TL;DR Two Wall Street broker-dealers, TradeUP Securities and US Tiger Securities, ran anti-money laundering programs so broken they couldn’t catch manipulation happening directly inside their own accounts. Both firms used an internal messaging platform with an automatic self-deletion feature, wiping…
TL;DR Benjamin Ballout, Mohamed Zayed, and William Fielding ran a textbook pump-and-dump scheme through a fake solar energy company called Enerkon Solar International, using fabricated press releases, forged bank statements, and a backdated loan document to rob everyday investors. Ballout…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Church & Dwight Co., Inc. & Its Impact on Public Health TL;DR Summary: A class-action lawsuit alleges that Church & Dwight Co., Inc., knowingly sold popular Zicam and Orajel Baby swabs contaminated with dangerous fungi. The…