You’d think that after coughing up $1.6 billion for cheating clean air laws, Cummins might take a quiet seat in the back row and reflect.
You’d be wrong.
This week, they filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit brought by their own investors. That’s right – after fleecing the public, poisoning the air, and getting hit with one of the largest environmental fines in US history, Cummins is now asking the courts to silence the very people whose money bankrolled the mess.
The arrogance is radioactive.
No apology. No contrition. Just lawyers in glass towers, deciding the best way to handle fraud is to silence the shareholders for noticing.
These aren’t rogue traders. These are pensioners, mutual funds, everyday stakeholders who backed Cummins in good faith. Their reward? A legal middle finger from a company that still refuses to own its mess.
This isn’t strategy. It’s culture – the rot that grows when a company believes it’s too big to fail, too clever to get caught, too insulated to be held to account.
Cummins isn’t fighting to clear its name. It’s fighting to control the narrative – selling the illusion of a clean, responsible powerhouse humming along on green buzzwords and DEI hashtags.
The reality? Emissions fraud. Retaliation. Silence. And now – betrayal.
This is a company that gassed the public and then gaslit the market. They got caught. Instead of atoning, they doubled down – trying to gaslight again, casting themselves as victims in a scandal they engineered.
We’ve seen this movie before. But now the lights are on. The curtain’s pulled back. And TCAP isn’t going anywhere.
You can try to dismiss your shareholders in court, Cummins.
You can’t dismiss the truth.
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Lee Thompson
Founder – The Cummins Accountability Project
www.tcap.blog