Trial lawyers and their buddies, the rats in congress and state legislature set up the conditions for these bad lawsuits.
Sounds like collusion to me. Plotting in secret to ripoff businesses is fraudulent........more like con artists than lawyers and legislators (snigger).
Hobbs Act comes into play here-----harming our economic interests through illegal means......then there's legal extortion.....besides RICO and all those other nice laws on conspiracy.
I would also not be surprised to find out these sharpies cooked the books and shipped a lot of the proceeds offshore, out of sight of the IRS and state and US banking laws.