[9] In December 2018 HCI Equity Partners V acquired the Liverpool, New York–based hose assembly firm JGB Enterprises which specializes in supporting the fracking industry.

In 2004 the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Thayer for their role in the racketeering case of former Treasurer of the State of Connecticut Paul J. Silvester.

The SEC report says that in November 1998 Silvester requested that Thayer's chairman, Frederic V. Malek, hire his good friend William DiBella as a lobbyist.

"[12] According to the New York Times in 1999 Silvester "pleaded guilty to six acts of racketeering, including three instances of bribery and one count of conspiring to launder money” and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators in their case against DeBella and Thayer.

Officials noted that the companies had already ceased use of PFAS but that the pollutant remained in their system because it is highly persistent, which is one reason it is so damaging to the environment.

[21] On August 1, 2022, EGLE (Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy) was notified by Tribar that it had released several thousand gallons of a liquid containing 5% hexavalent chromium into the sewer system.

[22] Hexavalent chromium was discharged to a sanitary sewer system from Tribar over the weekend and routed to the Wixom wastewater treatment facility.