Corporate Malfeasance Information Repository

In fairness, Radio Shack does recycle rechargeable batteries for free which is good for the environment.

2006: Radio Shaft has fired 400 workers by email. TGDaily story.
2005: Radio shack was ordered to recall 1 million video head cleaner kits, because the included solution was not isopropyl alcohol but the more toxic methanol. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission web page.
Outsourcer of jobs to overseas, according to CNN's Lou Dobbs, at a time when huge numbers of US workers are unemployed.

Rumored to have been sued in May 2001 by shareholders over earnings according to F*ckedCompany.com.

(maker of a technology for the military)

Background information for Raytheon Technical Services, which is operating in Iraq.

It is believed that the reason why the US Army in Iraq does not have proper protection against RPGs (rocket propelled grenades) is that certain top brass in the Army wanted to use Raytheon's $160 billion protection system, which will not even be available until 2011 instead of one that works 98% of the time according to Army tests called Trophy that is made in Israel. Such a state of affairs typically occurs in the USA when somebody important in government works for the company (Raytheon). Thus as a result of Raytheon's greed, American soldiers are dying unnecessarily. MSNBC story. Whatever you do, don't join the Army. The corporations will screw you.
Raytheon is an outsourcer of US jobs to poor countries, according to Lou Dobbs.
Class-action settlement in 2004 of $410 million. "The suit alleged that the company misled the investors regarding its financial problems." More info here.
Raytheon's auditor PriceWaterhouseCooper lost a class-action suit over deliberately "turning a blind eye" in 1998 to Raytheon's fraudulent accounting practices.
Raytheon was forced by a court to paid the widow of the inventor who invented GPS vehicle tracking $6.8 million after not paying that inventor any royalties. Talk about underhanded...
Ranked 11th in government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their contracts have gained them $2.7 billion since 1990, according to the Center for Public Integrity. link
From 2001-2003, Raytheon paid the US only 9.5% tax on profits rather than the usual 35%, thus receiving an undeserved "tax break" of US $644 million -- thanks to legally-bribed politicians.
Raytheon's subsidiary Solipsys is a defense contractor that has profited from the Iraq conflict.
Raytheon itself has chipmaking operations in Silicon Valley that have contaminated the soil.

RCA is owned by Sony.

RCA & Sony are members of the infamous terrorist organization RIAA.

RIAA = Sony, Warner Brothers, RCA, Atlantic, Columbia, Time, Virgin, etc.
Here is the full list of members.

2006: Terrorist RIAA lawyers have sued a website, AllOfMP3.com for $1.65 trillion. CyberNetNews story, because they feel that music was "stolen". Meanwhile, large corporations in the USA pay little or no taxes but somehow that is not theft in their minds. CTJ report.
2006: The terrorist tactics of RIAA have inspired Swedes, Germans, Italians, French, and others to create pirate political parties which have as their goals the abolition of patent systems and reform of copyright laws, among other things. Swedish pirate party
2006: RIAA appears to have never heard of the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution, or any other country's privacy protections. Techdirt story.
2003: The goons at RIAA decided to bully a 12-year-old girl to show how tough they are. The Register story.

2005: This company's cameras may be affected by a defective chip problem. For more information, see this description.

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