Caterpillar Inc was sued on Friday for allegedly deceiving shareholders about its business, one day after federal law enforcers raided three of its buildings in connection with a probe into the heavy machinery manufacturer’s offshore tax practices. In a complaint filed in Chicago federal court, Jacob Newman accused Caterpillar of defrauding him and other shareholders in regulatory filings by touting its commitment to good ethics, while concealing how it “unlawfully used foreign subsidiaries” to avoid paying billions of dollars of U.S. taxes.
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Caterpillar Goes From White House Kudos to Multi-Agency Raid
One week ago, Caterpillar Inc. was being praised by President Donald Trump for producing great bulldozers. “I love Caterpillar,” Trump told company Chairman Doug Oberhelman at a meeting of manufacturing heads at the White House.
Video-Game Tech Digging Real Dirt for Caterpillar, Komatsu
In Chicago, not far from Lake Michigan, the driver of a Caterpillar Inc. bulldozer looked left, right and forward to maneuver the 230,000-pound machine through a desert obstacle course of sand mounds and old tires. But for all his effort, he didn’t go anywhere.