Shadow Zone Investigation
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L10 / MEGATEL LLC

aliases: L10

subcontractor (AT&T)

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// the investigation

The investigation

L10 / MEGATEL LLC unusually publishes gross site PO amount in recruiting copy: "5-carrier AT&T site with one squid and one or two trunks (no mount mods) pays ~$33-34k gross to crew when crew owns truck". The transparency is the finding — most subcontractors do not disclose the prime-contract dollar value in their recruiting, leaving workers negotiating day-rates against invisible receivable flows. L10's public posting of the gross number is a compliance-positive transparency signal, unusual enough to be notable even in the absence of wage-theft or LLC-substitute evidence.

// findings

1 finding on this card

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m0204 MEDIUM JOB_POSTING_AMBIGUOUS PROVEN

бригаде выплачивается ~ 33k 34k)

the crew is paid ~33k-34k

source: CHAT · msgs 43309-45367 (4) · Telegram name: MEGATEL LLC · uid 7418014809
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Before you read

The Shadow Zone Investigation documents labor violations in U.S. wireless tower construction — including wage theft, undocumented-labor schemes, fraudulent safety certifications, child labor, and immigration coercion. 339 documented findings across 93 named subcontractors and 384 individuals. Anonymous investigation team.

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  • Every finding carries a PROVEN, ALLEGED, or INFERRED label. The label is the editorial commitment, not decoration.
  • Russian-language source quotes are preserved verbatim, with English translations.
  • Three corruption allegations against named primes are framed as ALLEGED throughout. The corpus does not prove them. They are surfaced because named industry sources, separately, raised them. Every unproven allegation on this site is collected on the What Is Alleged — and Not Proven page.

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