Corporate Greed Case Study: Zero Edge & Its Impact on Investors TLDR: A CEO raised nearly $4 million for a tech startup and allegedly lost almost all of it in four days on risky crypto trades and online gambling. Richard…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: XCL Resources, EP Energy, and The High Price of Greed (TL;DR) To settle allegations of illegal pre-merger coordination, three Houston-based energy companies—XCL Resources Holdings, LLC, Verdun Oil Company II LLC, and EP Energy LLC—were ordered to…
Corporate Pollution Case Study: The Sherwin-Williams Company & Its Impact on Public Health TL;DR: In a stunning illustration of corporate negligence, The Sherwin-Williams Company stands accused by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a laundry list of environmental and safety…
Corporate Pollution Case Study: The Starco Group & Its Impact on Public Health and Safety TL;DR: A Pattern of Secrecy and Disregard A California-based pesticide producer, The Starco Group, Inc., has been cited for repeatedly failing to inform the U.S.…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Ultramar Inc. & Its Impact on Public Health TL;DR: A major petroleum refinery operator, Ultramar Inc., recently agreed to pay a $270,437 penalty after federal regulators alleged the company repeatedly failed to comply with critical public…
Corporate Greed Case Study: GoodRx & Its Impact on Public Trust TL;DR: Digital health platform GoodRx, which millions of Americans trust for prescription discounts, systematically violated its own privacy promises by sharing users’ most sensitive health information with advertising giants…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Epic Games & Its Impact on Children and Consumers TLDR: Epic Games, the creator of the massively popular video game Fortnite, was formally accused by the Federal Trade Commission of deploying a sophisticated architecture of manipulation…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Epic Games & Its Impact on Children TL;DR: Epic Games, the creator of the global phenomenon Fortnite, was ordered to pay a staggering $275 million civil penalty for violating child privacy laws and deploying design choices…