WGN: Victims accuse Sterigenics of moving over $1 billion to safeguard money from lawsuits

CHICAGO (February 4, 2020) – A lawsuit filed Monday accuses medical sterilization company Sterigenics of funneling more than a billion dollars to investors so the funds couldn’t be used to pay legal damages.

Sterigenics announced it was permanently closing its Willowbrook facility in September, but people who lived nearby over the years it operated say the air was polluted with a cancer-causing gas. Please click here to read the full story from WGN-TV.