Violation Tracker Mega-Scandal Totals

Note: Mega-Scandals are clusters of major cases in which companies paid fines or settlements of $25 million or more. The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome.

Rank	Mega-Scandal	Total Penalties	Number of Records
57	Food Safety	$41,675,000	1
56	Upper Big Branch Disaster	$209,000,000	1
55	Federal Leaseholder Abuse	$479,869,584	9
54	Wage Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements	$792,950,000	11
53	Big Dig	$1,380,600,000	7
52	Vaping Marketing	$1,440,331,250	9
51	Discriminatory Lending Practices	$1,635,950,000	12
50	Brokerage House Conflicts of Interest	$1,681,000,000	32
49	Defective Building Materials	$2,003,625,558	15
48	Madoff Scandal	$2,128,000,000	3
47	Data Breach Liability	$2,189,357,939	14
46	GMOs	$2,260,000,000	2
45	PCBs	$2,473,749,999	13
44	Employment Discrimination	$2,653,745,000	35
43	Boeing 737 Max	$2,713,600,000	2
42	Insider Trading	$2,719,747,463	5
41	Unintended Acceleration	$2,829,000,000	3
40	Overdraft Fees	$3,101,367,200	19
39	Credit Card Issuer Abuses	$3,818,800,000	19
38	Market Timing Abuses	$4,163,300,000	36
37	Defective Airbags	$4,302,486,448	13
36	Cryptocurrency	$5,093,167,538	10
35	Western Energy Crisis	$5,431,700,000	13
34	Federal Contractor Abuses	$5,499,043,822	64
33	Predatory Lending	$5,554,114,119	17
32	Tax Disputes	$5,700,000,000	2
31	Wage Theft	$5,987,606,308	83
30	Defective Earplugs	$6,000,000,000	1
29	Early 2000s Accounting Scandals	$6,113,370,000	29
28	Student Loan and For-Profit College Abuses	$6,406,964,267	26
27	Online Privacy	$7,319,000,000	15
26	Refinery Pollution	$7,753,543,499	31
25	Generic Drug Pay for Delay	$8,598,975,000	68
24	Bogus Bank Accounts	$8,639,000,000	10
23	Assisting Tax Evasion	$8,662,849,310	38
22	Drug Pricing Abuses	$8,669,833,464	80
21	Anti-Money Laundering Deficiencies	$9,051,644,873	48
20	Swipe Fees	$9,250,000,000	4
19	Medical Equipment Hazards	$9,555,660,000	25
18	Roundup	$9,764,550,000	4
17	Healthcare Billing Abuses	$10,640,554,423	120
16	Talc Litigation	$11,400,000,000	2
15	Healthcare Kickbacks	$12,149,231,981	97
14	Power Plant Emissions	$14,002,726,883	24
13	PFC/PFOA	$16,110,850,000	18
12	Benchmark Manipulation	$18,274,975,000	91
11	Wildfire Liability	$18,526,500,000	16
10	Foreign Bribery	$19,594,025,958	110
9	Improper Drug Marketing	$20,653,020,587	66
8	Pharmaceutical Hazards	$23,392,652,203	44
7	Sanctions Violations	$25,622,319,767	73
6	Emissions Cheating	$32,504,055,116	38
5	Deepwater Horizon	$35,854,750,000	14
4	Price Fixing	$43,560,101,570	426
3	Opioid Crisis	$70,892,409,664	83
2	Mortgage Abuses	$84,104,995,766	106
1	Toxic Securities	$148,423,862,498	140