…[A]malgamated Plantations took over the plantation in 2008…The company’s investors said they planned to transform this sprawling tea estate into a model for sustainable and responsible labor policy through an employee shareholding program. The International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank partly funded by the United States government, lent the new company legitimacy with a sizable investment…workers said their overseers treated them harshly and denied them basic benefits… the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School released a 110-page report on Amalgamated’s operations…The report paints a grim portrait of life on the tea plantation…Amalgamated denies any wrongdoing.