Credit card delinquency lawsuits against London Mayor Weddle top $860K
American Express is suing London Mayor Randall Weddle and a recycling company he is tied to for more than $700,000 in unpaid corporate credit card debt, bringing the total amount the lender says Weddle has defaulted on to nearly $860,000.
A Kentucky debt collection firm claims Weddle, as the primary agent for BC Recycling LLC, didn’t make the minimum $692,000 payment on an American Express corporate Gold Card earlier this month.
The national bank is suing the mayor and his company for the entire remaining balance. A lawsuit the company filed in April claims he has defaulted on nearly $146,000 of personal credit card debt.
Weddle told the Herald-Leader Thursday he does not own BC Recycling and that the claims against him “all will be worked out.”
The lawsuits are the latest in a slew of state and federal claims the controversial Southeastern Kentucky mayor faces as he campaigns to keep his seat as chief executive at city hall. He will go up against local business owner Matt Orr in the November general election, who he narrowly led in the primary by less than 1% of the vote last week.
Weddle’s alleged use of credit cards is what led to felony campaign finance charges Attorney General Russell Coleman filed against him in March. State prosecutors say the mayor illegally gave nearly $100,000 to Gov. Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Democratic Party on behalf of family members and business associates, skirting individual donor limits.
He has entered a not-guilty plea in Laurel Circuit Court. His attorney claims the charges are politically motivated.
The name listed as the BC Recycling operations manager in a change-of-address statement the company filed with the Secretary of State’s office in 2025 matches a person on behalf of whom Weddle is accused of making some of those donations, according to the felony indictment.
BC Recycling under the former address is listed as “permanently closed” on Google searches, and the new address is the same corporate headquarters for WB Transport LLC, a U.S. freight company Weddle founded and told the Herald-Leader in December he had “retired out” from “several years ago.”
Yet, Weddle’s personal cell phone is still listed as the primary contact number for the active U.S. Department of Transportation company profile on WB Transport. While the company is listed as active, with at least 36 trucks and 16 drivers, required bodily injury and property damage insurance appears to have lapsed, according to federal records reviewed by the Herald-Leader.
WB Transport’s for-hire motor carrier operating authority is inactive, according to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records. It is not currently authorized for interstate operations.
And while both WB Transport and BC Recycling are listed as active companies in good standing with the Secretary of State, workers’ compensation insurance coverage for both companies was canceled by the carrier for non-payment, Kentucky Department of Workers’ Claims records show.
All Kentucky employers with one or more workers are required to maintain workers’ compensation insurance coverage.
Calls to numbers for both companies went unanswered.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet came under GOP scrutiny in 2023 for moving up the timeline on more than $1 million worth of road improvements that benefited the WB Transport headquarters in London. Republican lawmakers suggested Weddle had curried the governor’s favor just months after he had directed thousands of dollars to Beshear’s reelection effort.
KYTC said the shifts in construction timing saved both time and money.
