Sugar Company That Fills The Everglades With Smoke For Months Every Year Sued For Greenwashing Claims

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1. The Fanjuls are known as the "first family of corporate welfare."

"Jose Fanjul and his family own a sugar harvesting and refining empire, including a majority stake in Domino Sugar. Since the 1980s, the sugar industry has enjoyed billions of dollars in annual subsidies from the federal government, which guarantees high prices for domestic sugar. This makes sugar farming much more profitable than other kinds of farming and forces American consumers to spend twice as much for sugar compared to other countries. Fanjul is a prolific donor to Republican causes to preserve these subsidies."

Fanjul contributed over $800,000 to the Trump campaign.