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.
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…
EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Report — October 2024 The Algorithm That Ate America How Amazon Built a Secret Price Machine, Destroyed Competition, and Extracted Billions From Your Wallet TL;DR The FTC, joined by 20 states and territories, sued Amazon for illegally…
Labor Rights • Corporate Accountability • FTC Enforcement O-I Glass Locked 600+ Job Titles Into Non-Compete Chains. The FTC Just Cut Them. EvilCorporations.com • FTC Docket No. C-4786 / Decision and Order, Issued February 21, 2023 • 22 min read…
Antitrust & Judicial Accountability The Judge, His Wife’s Bank Stock, and the $10 Billion Bond Rigging Case That Almost Got Buried EvilCorporations.com Investigative Desk — Source: Litovich v. Bank of America Corp., et al., No. 21-2905, U.S. Court of Appeals,…
EvilCorporations.com • FTC Docket No. C-4142 • 13 min read The Cartel in Your Doctor’s Office San Juan IPA coordinated physicians across the Farmington, New Mexico area to fix prices and block insurance companies from negotiating fair rates. The Federal…
Federal Trade Commission • Docket No. C-4795 • Antitrust & Consumer Finance Mastercard’s Tollbooth: How a Token Scheme Locked Competitors Out of Your Digital Wallet EvilCorporations.com • FTC Consent Order, Docket No. C-4795, Issued May 30, 2023 • 11 min…
FTC Blocks Chevron-Hess Merger Over OPEC Collusion Concerns Corporate Misconduct Accountability Project Chevron Corporation and Hess Corporation · FTC Administrative Complaint FTC Blocks Chevron-Hess Merger Over OPEC Collusion Concerns Federal regulators charge that Hess CEO’s communications with foreign oil cartel…