Shadow Zone Investigation

Contact

The Shadow Zone Investigation is run by a small group of industry participants. There is no organization behind it. Messages reach the investigators directly.

Tips and information from inside the industry

If you are a worker, recruiter, project manager, safety officer, accountant, or any other person inside the U.S. wireless tower-construction supply chain and you have witnessed any of the practices documented on this site, please contact the investigation team. Your identity will be protected. You do not need to give your name, your company, or your position. You can tell us only what you saw.

Tips are read by the investigation team. They are not shared with any government agency or law-enforcement body without the source's explicit consent.

Email: shadowzone2026@pm.me
Telegram: t.me/shadowzone2026

The Russian-language version of this call is at the bottom of the open letter.

Press inquiries

Members of the press may contact the investigation team at the addresses above. Please identify yourself and your outlet. The team will respond as time permits and may decline to comment on questions that would compromise sources.

Corrections and removal requests

Companies or individuals named on this site who believe a finding is inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading may submit documentation to the investigation team at the addresses above. Please include the specific finding identifier (for example, m0073), the page on which the finding appears, the substance of the disputed claim, and any supporting documentation you can provide.

All correction requests are read. The investigator will review the supporting documentation and decide on a case-by-case basis whether to issue a correction, clarification, or removal. The full editorial standard for naming companies and individuals, and the framework for evaluating correction requests, is documented on the About page.

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.

Three editorial commitments:

  • 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.

Mistakes may exist. The corpus runs to ~30,000 messages over 5+ years; translations were AI-assisted across four independent analyses. Some errors likely remain. To report a factual error or dispute a finding's framing, see the corrections policy on the About page.

Methodology and scope limits: About. Contact channels: end of the Open Letter.