dirty dollars
DIRTY DOLLARS
Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, unpaid taxes, shuttered buildings and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs
By Michael Sallah | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 16, 2021
A Post-Gazette Investigation
Years after back-to-back explosions at an aging steel factory in northern Ohio tossed workers into guardrails with bloodied faces and deep burns, the leaders of the facility met in Pittsburgh to decide the future of the company.
They summoned a new plant manager to a private aviation center at Pittsburgh International Airport in 2013 to look for ways to improve the troubled facility and increase output.
But it wasn’t the sale of steel that would keep the money flowing into the mill.