The people we pay to protect us from #CorpoCrimeWave are the ones we really need protection from. There is no amount to low for which they will not sell us out. All we have is us

"Public Health Watch discovered that the EPA and Texas had ignored warning signs at ITC for nearly two decades prior to the 2019 catastrophe. After the fire was extinguished, dangerous levels of the carcinogen benzene infused nearby neighborhoods for weeks"
#climate #ClimateCrisis #climatechange https://gijn.org/2023/08/16/journalistic-teamwork-uncovered-regulatory-failure-texas/

How Journalistic Teamwork Uncovered Years of Regulatory Failure in Texas

Public Health Watch reporters David Leffler & Savanna Strott go behind the scenes on their investigation into a massive Texas chemical fire.

Global Investigative Journalism Network

you live in a company town, we all do.

You might not realize it until something like the East Palestine train explosion happens and you find out all the town has been bribed by the corp for just such occassions. Whatever corps want, goes, esp in our courts, but most time it never gets that far, they just buy off the rule makers in the first place
#CorpoCrimeWave #CapitalismIsKillingYOU #StrikeReady2024 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/08/23/court-appeals-3m-egle-pfas-nonstick-chemicals-water-michigan/70659198007/

State Court of Appeals rejects Michigan PFAS water rules after chemical company 3M sues

Michigan's environmental regulator, EGLE, should have better considered businesses' costs to comply with tighter rules for PFAS in water, court rules.

Detroit Free Press

#CorpoCrimeWave

The University of Chicago is paying out $13.5 million to settle claims that it acted as a price-fixing cartel with 16 elite schools to keep financial aid low. In total the suit claims these schools overcharged 170,000 financial-aid recipients by HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars. These schools all call themselves "need blind."
#CapitalismIsKillingYOU
https://businessinsider.com/do-i-qualify-for-university-of-chicago-settlement-financial-aid-2023-8

UChicago agrees to $13.5 million settlement in financial aid lawsuit

After nearly two years of litigation, UChicago settled claims it conspired with top colleges including Brown and Yale to limit financial aid packages.

Insider
UBS pays $1.4bn to settle US mortgage bond mis-selling case

Agreement resolves final case by federal task force set up to probe Wall Street’s role in causing 2008 financial crisis

Financial Times

#CorpoCrimeWave

MTG's campaign managers worked with a fake charity to lie and say they would raise money for the East Palestine train derailment victims and then put the money in their pockets instead. And for that henius crime, they just have to pay the money back and no one goes to jail, its so good to be rich and white and a crook in america
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/12/marjorie-taylor-greene-campaign-manager-ohio-train-derailment-scam?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign manager to pay $25k over Ohio train derailment scam

Isaiah Wartman and two others ordered to pay restitution over role in fraudulent fund claiming to help East Palestine victims

The Guardian

#CorpoCrimeWave
Bank execs were using whatsapp to do insider trading, making untold amounts, have to give back some of what they stole #CapitalismIsKillingYOU

"Banks hit with $549 million in fines for use of Signal, WhatsApp to evade regulators’ reach"
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/regulators-hit-wall-street-banks-with-549-million-in-penalties-for-record-keeping-failures-.html

#CorpoCrimeWave

This is a crime that lead to people being homeless. Our laws must give jail time to corporate criminals, maybe then they will think harder abt committing 'white-collar' crimes
#CapitalismIsKillingYOU https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-los-angeles-landlords-renting-residential-hotels

How We Found What the City of Los Angeles Didn’t: Landlords Renting Low-Cost Housing to Tourists

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.

ProPublica
elon stole his new X, wonder if this will be lawsuit #30?
#CorpoCrimeWave
A CSX freight train derailed in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania on Monday morning.
The train was operating on Norfolk Southern tracks.
So far they have only admitted silicon is leaking from one car, we dont know whats in the rest of the 40 car pile up
#CapitalismIsKillingYOU #CorpoCrimeWave
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-train-derialment-csx-norfolk-southern-f4348b108cd5a50e91312ad8e3c5dbcd?taid=64b536ba85ecee000169d2cc&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
Freight train derails in southeast Pennsylvania, but no known injuries or hazards

A freight train derailment in southeast Pennsylvania has spurred precautionary evacuations, but officials say no injuries were reported and there is no known hazard to the public. The 40-car CSX train, which was operating on tracks owned by Norfolk Southern, derailed around 4:50 a.m. Monday in Whitemarsh Township. More than a dozen cars appeared to be off the tracks. Whitemarsh police said silicone pellets were leaking from at least one of them, but they posed no risk to the public. Hazmat teams were at the site, but it wasn’t immediately clear what was in the other cars. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.

AP News
#CorpoCrimeWave
join a workers union today or start one to help fight for a country that actually works for us and not just rich corpos
#CapitalismIsKillingYOU #StrikeReady2024
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/17/us-workers-back-pay-wage-theft-consultis
‘Where is the money?’ US workers left unpaid after federal contractor wage theft

Workers have tried to recoup back pay since 2015 from contractor Consultis, but US agencies continue to kick the can down the road

The Guardian