Phil Mattera

Dirt Diggers Digest: Chronicling Corporate Misbehavior (and How to Research It)

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Trump is on the warpath against socialism at the same time he is taking over chunks of dozens of corporations. https://t.co/NouU4CK0o2

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The SCOTUS ruling ending the independence of regulatory agencies is bad news for now but could enhance corporate accountability if we ever elect a progressive president. https://t.co/0egaCMLdxC

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A Supreme Court ruling and a DOJ memo are signs of a growing effort to prevent citizen groups from using the courts to challenge corporate abuses. https://t.co/nQ6B1pTH8c

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been brought back from the dead as a tentacle of Trump's anti-DEI and anti-immigrant crusades. https://t.co/FCuvd13von

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The Trump Administration is enlisting the CFPB and other federal agencies in the effort to freeze non-citizens out of the banking system. https://t.co/Cw3DesdOOu

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Banking regulators are helping Trump rewrite the history of January 6 and its aftermath. https://t.co/JcThU4XdxK

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The DOJ’s fund for purported victims of the Biden Administration is likely to be used as a precedent for future demands for compensation from corporations currently being harassed by the Trump Administration. https://t.co/eyHhUWv1au

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The CFTC is fighting for the right to regulate prediction markets lightly. https://t.co/EBFubD6Jlx

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A Florida utility company has just agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle the latest lawsuit over wage-fixing. https://t.co/Gm8Wa0HD8Y

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Apple's high prices are supposedly based on the high quality of its devices, but a series of lawsuits tell a different story. https://t.co/yZfM8Wtusn

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Trump insists he is not a king, but his capricious attacks on perceived foes make him look increasingly like another monarch. https://t.co/XYZGAEOxxW

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The California AG has amassed evidence suggesting that Amazon has been pressuring its suppliers to make sure their products are not being sold at lower prices on competing platforms. https://t.co/0ITKSfrJnQ

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Trump's DOJ accused IBM of fraud because of its efforts to enhance diversity in its workforce. https://t.co/a40EyjYRaE

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The SEC is boasting about cutting back on enforcement. https://t.co/oNHhrl9cNQ

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Contrary to its tendency to go easy on rogue corporations, the Trump Administration has recently announced a spate of mega-penalties. Some prosecutors and regulators are doing their job. https://t.co/NEqTdODdO9

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The newly chosen senator from Oklahoma is controversial for the wrong reason. https://t.co/QaTR4Jet9U

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Trump's EPA, which revels in bashing regulations, wants us to believe it is doing a sterling job at enforcement. https://t.co/LqbkpvDmbC

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The Trump DOJ's new policy on corporate crime focuses on leniency. https://t.co/jBQWVr1vpo

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Under Trump 2.0 the SEC is a shadow of its former self. https://t.co/hH17ua05dp

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Donald Trump had a lot to say about crime in his State of the Union speech. Most of it was untrue and none of it concerned the kind of crime his administration is abetting. https://t.co/JKzzf1uhZX