Person
Kory Blaine Willis
Power Performance Enterprises Inc. (PPEI)
Overview
Founder of PPEI. Pleaded guilty in March 2022 in connection with diesel defeat-device products. Sentenced in December 2024. No pardon located in the official clemency record reviewed. A separate federal civil consent decree imposes continuing restrictions on covered products, inventory, technical support, warranties, marketing, customer notices, training and associated intellectual property.
Verified facts
- Organization
- Power Performance Enterprises Inc. (PPEI)
- Role
- Founder, Power Performance Enterprises Inc.
- District
- Not yet documented
- Offense
- Not yet documented
- Charge date
- Not yet documented
- Plea date
- 2022-03
- Sentencing date
- 2024-12
- Pardon date
- Not yet documented
- Sentence
- Not yet documented
Analysis and open questions
- Full public text of the consent decree.
- Federal debarment or disqualification determinations.
Connected evidence
Organizations
Associated with · OrganizationVerified primary
Power Performance Enterprises Inc. (PPEI)Founder of PPEI per EPA enforcement record.
Cases
Defendant in · CaseVerified primary
U.S. v. Kory Willis / PPEI — federal criminal prosecutionConvicted upon guilty plea. Sentenced December 2024. Not pardoned.Defendant in the federal PPEI criminal prosecution.
Subject of · CaseVerified primary
PPEI / Willis — federal civil settlement and consent decreeActive federal civil consent decree. Not terminated. Not affected by any pardon issued to any other person.Bound by the PPEI civil consent decree.
Documents
Not pardoned in · DocumentVerified primary
Clemency Grants by President Donald J. Trump (2025–Present)Office of the Pardon AttorneyNo pardon for Kory Willis was located in the official clemency record reviewed through the relevant date.
Articles
Discussed in · ArticleVerified reporting
The EPA's War on Diesel 101Talking Wreckless · 2026-07-10Extensively discussed in The EPA's War on Diesel 101.
Discussed in · ArticleVerified reporting
The prosecution and the pardon that ended the diesel warsFreightWaves · 2026-07-06Discussed as the notable non-pardoned defendant.
Profile
Kory Blaine Willis is the founder of Power Performance Enterprises Inc. (PPEI). His federal criminal case ended with a March 2022 guilty plea and a December 2024 sentencing. He is not named in the identified diesel-related clemency grants.
Separate from the criminal proceeding, Willis and PPEI are subject to a federal civil consent decree that governs covered products, inventory, technical support, warranties, marketing, customer notices, training, and associated intellectual property. That decree is enforced through the civil docket, not the criminal docket, and is unaffected by pardons issued to other diesel defendants.
Open questions
- Whether any subsequent debarment, disqualification, or contract-exclusion determination has issued.
- Full public text and termination criteria of the consent decree.