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