TL;DR Summary Between 2015 and 2019, Kenneth Courtright’s company, Today’s Growth Consultant (TGC) (operating as The Income Store) took over $132 million from investors under the guise of funding revenue-generating websites. In reality, the company was paying old investors with…
TL;DR:CHS Inc., one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in the United States, violated federal clean air safety rules at two Idaho facilities by failing to conduct required safety audits for its handling of anhydrous ammonia, a highly toxic and explosive…
TL;DR:Two Rivers Cattle Feeders, a large Missouri livestock operation, was found by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have repeatedly discharged animal waste into a tributary of Salt Creek without a required federal permit. The EPA’s investigation revealed that…
TL;DR:Federal EPA inspectors found that Heatron, Inc., a manufacturer in Leavenworth, Kansas, mishandled hazardous waste, failed to label and contain toxic materials, and lacked required staff training under federal environmental law. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined this evil company…
TL;DRIn April 2025, Arxada LLC imported a shipment of pesticide products through the Salt Lake City port without submitting an accurate Notice of Arrival, a mandatory requirement under federal pesticide law. The discrepancies in establishment identifiers across documentation violated the…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: AllService Plumbing and Its Assault on Worker Organizing TL;DR Summary AllService Plumbing, a Baton Rouge plumbing contractor, faced federal labor charges after firing workers who supported a unionization drive. A National Labor Relations Board judge found…
TL;DR:Baxter Healthcare was sued for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of racial and national origin discrimination against one of its own employees. Behind this individually specific lawsuit lies a broader story of corporate dominance enabled by weak regulation, global profit structures,…
TL;DRA federal appellate (appeals) court recently upheld an injunction (it’s like a pause of sorts) against PointClickCare Technologies after finding evidence that the electronic-health-record giant used technical barriers to block Real Time Medical Systems, a smaller analytics firm, from accessing…
TL;DR:Between 2020 and 2023, Granite City Slag LLC repeatedly violated Clean Air Act regulations, emitting dangerous levels of particulate matter and failing to use required pollution controls. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the evil company neglected moisture…
TL;DR:Landmark Modernization Contractors agreed to pay a civil penalty of $21,492 after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined the company violated multiple provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) related to lead-safe renovation practices. The case exposes systemic weaknesses…