Anti-competition behaviors. Monopolies and such. These evil corporations took advantage of their big dick gargantuan market caps to pressure the competition out of business in order to maximize profits at our expense.
The Price of Exclusivity The modern music industry operates on a fundamentally different economic model than it did just two decades ago. The precipitous decline of physical album sales, which fell by 50% between 1999 and 2009, and the rise…
TL;DR The Archery Trade Association (ATA) and its member companies, including Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Hoyt, Mathews, Bowtech, and PSE, allegedly ran a coordinated price-fixing cartel affecting the entire U.S. archery market from at least 2014 to…
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…
TL;DR VCA Animal Hospitals, Ethos, Thrive, MedVet, and five elite universities — Penn, Tufts, Cornell, Ohio State, and University of Florida — are accused of running a coordinated, decades-long wage-fixing scheme targeting veterinary interns and residents. The alleged conspiracy operates…
EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Report Two Ad Giants Tried to Merge and Own the Information Pipeline FTC Complaint Issued — June 2025 — Source: Federal Trade Commission TL;DR Omnicom agreed to buy rival ad giant IPG for $13.5 billion (enough to…
Antitrust Investigation A Private Equity Firm Bought The #2 Medical Device Supplier, Then Tried To Buy #1. The FTC Just Said No. Filed: May 14, 2025 | Source: FTC Amended Complaint, Docket No. 9440 | Respondents: GTCR, LLC; GTCR BC…
TL;DR Three Houston oil companies — XCL Resources, Verdun Oil, and EP Energy — illegally merged their operations for 94 days before federal regulators gave them the green light, in a scheme federal prosecutors call “gun jumping.” XCL seized control…
TL;DR THE LAWSUIT: Twelve professional tennis players and the Professional Tennis Players Association filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in March 2025 against the ATP Tour, WTA Tour, International Tennis Federation, and International Tennis Integrity Agency, alleging a coordinated cartel that…
TL;DR Fanatics secretly signed 10-to-20-year exclusive deals with every major U.S. sports league (MLB, NFL, NBA) and their players unions, locking competitors out of the entire trading card market for at least a decade. Fanatics then bought its biggest rival…
Antitrust Price Fixing Corporate Accountability How Simmons Bought Silence A federal appeals court just blessed an $8 million (enough to pay a year’s groceries for roughly 8,000 families) settlement that shuts down every lawsuit against a chicken industry cartel player…