Scandal-Ridden Company Destroys Family Business, Refuses To Pay Jury Verdict

Radius Recycling, Inc., formerly known as Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., a company  who has a scandal-ridden history so disreputable that they had to rename and re-brand  themselves in an effort to escape their sordid and scandalous past, may have to rename  themselves again. Radius has now destroyed a family-run transportation business owned by  Valentin A. Bonilla called V.A.B. Transports ("V.A.B.") and is arrogantly refusing to pay the  jury verdict recently rendered against it and in favor of V.A.B. 

Even more concerning, Radius is also attempting to collect from Bonilla its alleged  litigation costs in the exorbitant amount of $103,675.96, despite the fact that the jury ruled in  favor of V.A.B. and against Radius. On December 22, 2025, Radius filed a motion requesting  the judge to set aside the recent jury verdict of $35,000 in favor of V.A.B. and to instead issue  a judgment in favor of Radius. Radius' motion is scheduled to be heard on March 5, 2026.  (Please see Alameda Superior Court Case No. 22CV005633 entitled Valentin A. Bonilla v.  Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.) Radius was sold to the Toyota Corporation on July 25, 2025  for $1.32 Billion (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/toyota-tsusho-america-acquire-radius-recycling-134-billion-deal-2025-03-13/). Radius used its considerable resources to crush  V.A.B. as a family business and now does not want to be held accountable and is refusing to  pay the jury verdict, even though V.A.B. was entitled to much more than the $35,000 jury  verdict. 

From November of 2017 to about March of 2020 V.A.B. provided contract services to  Radius by transporting thousands of crushed vehicles between two Radius facilities in  Stockton, California. In the jury trial, Radius admitted that V.A.B. provided the transportation  services and also admitted that it had not paid V.A.B. any money at all for V.A.B.'s services  but then it claimed on technical grounds that it owed V.A.B. no money. Radius had used its  superior financial and bullying power not to pay V.A.B. any money at all while V.A.B. was  providing the services over a course of over two years, and then spent upwards of one million  dollars in legal fees to try to deny V.A.B. the just compensation for its services which V.A.B.  deserved. Radius is a predator company which needs to be stopped before it inflicts even more  harm on innocent people. For more information, please contact V.A.B.'s attorney, Cyrus  Zal. There is a lot more to this story!