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The investigation

Nolleks LLC's recruiting is documented in two findings whose cross-reference is thin. Recurring recruiting posts for top hand / helper on AT&T swap work in Ohio, TTT1 listed as "desirable" rather than required, piece-rate or day-rate options, pay by agreement — the standard subcontractor language without explicit LLC-or-SSN framing. A separate user (Khomko) publicly asks the chat for TTT1 exam answers or recent preparation materials — the worker-level request for fabricated cert materials in the same recruiting channel, though Khomko's Nolleks affiliation is not established in the message itself. Nolleks appears on this census because it operates in the same market and channels as the documented scheme operators, but the direct adverse evidence against Nolleks specifically is below the threshold for strong claims. The ambient context is the finding.

// findings

2 findings on this card

Each finding is a single corpus message (or a short cluster) with a verbatim quote, severity tag, and provenance label. Click any finding to view the source message and context window. Speaker identifiers below are Telegram name (the handle the user chose for themselves on Telegram — can be a real name, a single letter, an emoji, or anything else they set) plus Telegram UID (the numeric account identifier).

m0226 MEDIUM CERT_FRAUD INFERRED

Ребята может у кого-нибудь из вас есть ответы для TTT1? Или хотя бы свежий материал чтобы подготовиться.

Guys, maybe someone has answers for TTT1? Or at least recent material to prepare.

source: CHAT · msgs 32931-32934 (2) · Telegram name: Stas Bo · uid 296436476
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m0227 MEDIUM JOB_POSTING_AMBIGUOUS PROVEN

По договоренности зарплаты (процент от сайта/ дневная оплата)

Pay by agreement (percent of site / day rate)

source: CHAT · msgs 44484-53934 (8) · Telegram name: Mikalai Khomko · uid 5118963599
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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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