The Asplundh family has gone viral after their new member Katherine tried to bully an Instagram user who shared her married name into handing over her handle.
Details of the Scandal
It has since emerged that the family suffered a scandal and agreed to pay what was the largest civil fine in of its kind in 2017 after admitting to a scheme to unlawfully employ undocumented migrants from 2010 to 2014.
The 95-year-old company, which maintains trees for electric utilities, municipalities and others, is run by the third generation of Asplundhs.
The company is owned by nearly 200 family members, who are collectively worth at least $3 billion, according to Forbes – it is described as one of the largest private companies in the country.
The family was fined $95million for hiring undocumented migrants.
Prosecutors said at the time: ‘The highest levels of Asplundh management remained willfully blind while lower level managers hired and rehired employees they knew to be ineligible to work in the United States’.
Katherine Is the Newest Member of Asplundh
Katherine, whose maiden name was Driscoll, married Cabot Asplundh, 27, of the Pennsylvania billionaire tree trimming family at a reception in Palm Beach, Florida, two weeks ago.
She went viral after aggressively messaging a stranger who shares her married name, demanding she hand over her Instagram handle – @katherineasplundh.
After her threatening DM conversation was leaked, netizens boycotted her and forced het to delete her Instagram with 14,600 followers.
Her new father in law Matt Asplundh has been serving as CEO of the family business since 2021.
