Mission

This site exists because the public record is overwhelming and almost nobody reads it. Settlements, consent decrees, OSHA fines, SEC orders, wage-theft judgments, environmental violations — it's all there, in dockets and databases the press summarizes once and forgets.

We collect it. We write it down in plain language. We name names. We cite sources. We don't pretend to be neutral about whether wage theft is bad. We are not neutral. The facts are.

What we mean by "crimes"

Yes, it's a loaded word. We use it on purpose.

The legal system is itself part of what we're documenting — a system captured by the same concentrated wealth it was supposed to constrain. Narrow the definition to "prosecuted offenses" and you let the architects of that capture off the hook for the acts they wrote the laws to permit. We don't accept that framing.

When we say "crimes," we mean three overlapping categories:

• Prosecuted offenses. Verdicts, consent decrees, OSHA fines, SEC settlements, antitrust judgments — the public record of legal accountability, however partial.
• Illegal but unprosecuted. Acts that violate existing law but were never charged — because enforcement was defunded, regulators were captured, or the company was too big to prosecute.
• Legal but morally criminal. Acts that are technically lawful because the laws were written, lobbied, or gutted to permit them. Poisoning the air and water within permitted limits. Denying healthcare claims using an algorithm until people die from the denial. Profiting from private prisons. Pricing insulin to maximize margin while patients ration doses. Funding climate denial for thirty years. These are crimes by any definition that survives the word "humanity."

Editorial standard

• Every fact claim links to a primary source (court filing, regulator order, official report) or a major investigative outlet.
• Allegations are labeled as allegations until adjudicated.
• Opinion is voiced and labeled.
• Corrections are public and timestamped.