Topic: Corporate Crime

Big Fish White-Collar Offenders

BY Daniel Wannamaker
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM

There are plenty of fish in the sea of white-collar crime, ranging in size from small to whoppers, but it's not always that easy to catch the big ones.READ»

AUTHORS | Comment

The Five Signs of Financial Fraud

BY Sandy Hutchens
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Aug 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM

How to Smell a Rat: the Five Signs of Financial Fraud by Ken Fisher is probably the best investment you will make this year.READ»

ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

CEOs in the Slammer

BY Angus Loten
Relevancy Score: 97
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ»

ETHICS | Comment

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"

Relevancy Score: 94
Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 1:16 PM

Those may be the five most dangerous words in business, wrote Warren Buffet in a September 27 memo to his top managers at Berkshire Hathaway. According to an article today in The Financial Times, the billionaire investment guru is ...READ»

ETHICS | 3 comments

Be Vewwy Quiet! I'm Hunting for Excuses!

Relevancy Score: 81
Tue Mar 15, 2005 at 4:29 PM

Ken Lay might want to rethink his "I was fooled" defense, because it's the same one used--unsuccessfully--by former WorldCom exec Bernie Ebbers, who was found guilty on nine counts of fraud today and now faces up to 85 years in ...READ»

ECONOMY | Comment

Another Wall Street Fiasco!

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 78
Thu Jan 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM

14 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com An epic fraud has just been uncovered – this time it doesn’t involve those new exotic and complex securitized debt/credit default swap packages. No, this one is a ...READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

BY Corey Blay
Relevancy Score: 76
Sun Feb 22, 2009 at 8:53 AM

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | 25 comments

Quiz: Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 69
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:55 AM

The standard clinical test for psychopathy, Robert Hare's PCL-R, evaluates 20 personality traits overall, but a subset of eight traits defines what he calls the "corporate psychopath" -- the nonviolent person prone to the "selfish, callous, and remorseless use of others." Does your boss fit the profile? Here's our do-it-yourself quiz drawing on the test manual and Hare's book Without Conscience. (Disclaimer: If you're not a psychologist or psychiatrist, this will be a strictly amateur exercise.) We've used the pronoun "he," but research suggests psychologists have underestimated the psychopathic propensity of women.READ»

FINANCE | Comment

Chen Wenling Encapsulates Wall St. in a Sculpture

BY Noah Robischon
Relevancy Score: 68
Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM

The man against the wall is Bernie Madoff. READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | Comment

Set for Life

Relevancy Score: 67
Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 6:14 PM

This Wednesday became Day One in ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's 24-year sentence for securities fraud, insider trading, and making false claims to auditors. According to prison officials, Skilling, 53, entered the Federal ...READ»

LAW | Comment

Competition in Legalese

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 61
Tue Jun 28, 2005 at 12:14 PM

It was bound to happen: AMD is suing Intel. This is an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Intel coerced PC-makers like Dell and Gateway, and national retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City, to boycott AMD processors. After Microsoft ...READ»

BACKDATING | Comment

Should RIM's CEOs Go to Jail?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 57
Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM

This week four of RIM's [RIMM] top executives settled options backdating cases with the SEC and the OSC, Canada's securities regulation agency. The Ontario-based cronies have agreed to pay almost $100 million CN in penalties, costs ...READ»

AUTHORS | Comment

Expert Fraud Investigation review by Sandy Hutchens

BY Sandy Hutchens
Relevancy Score: 56
Mon Aug 17, 2009 at 4:29 PM

Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide by Tracy Coenen keys in on the brass tacks of investigating fraud.READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | Comment

Parmalat, Impermanent

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 56
Mon Dec 29, 2003 at 3:05 PM

An FC Now reader emailed yesterday afternoon suggesting that we consider commenting on the Parmalat case in Italy. Catching up on the last few days of coverage -- the events have really been accelerating -- I was saddened as it ...READ»

CARRIE ROGERS | Comment

Kelly G Rogers, Kelly Gordon Rogers, Kelly Rogers Scam Warning

BY Kelly G Rogers Scam
Relevancy Score: 53
Tue Nov 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM

The Rio Grande Coal Mine group has issued a complaint; To Determine Discharge ability of Debt owed to the investor group. Seven investors filed the complaint to the United States Bankruptcy Court of Eastern Texas on October 1, 2009 against bankrurptcy case No 09-42154. The group is asking the Trustees not to dismiss the debt owed to these investors as a result of an investment solicited by Kelly Rogers. Interestingly, Carrie Rogers is also named in the complaint. To download complain, click on the link; Rio Grande Coal Mine, LLC dba-Mexicaol, LLC. READ»

PHILANTHROPY | Comment

Confidence Is Not a Game

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 51
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

Who: Charles D. Niemeier

Title: Acting Chairman of the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Where: Washington, DC

Challenge: To restore integrity to corporate accounting (and rescue capitalism)READ»

CHANGE AGENTS | 1 comment

Scandalous Change

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 48
Wed Mar 23, 2005 at 11:41 AM

There is an interesting story running on CNN/Money this week. The numbers of self-employed people -- no surprise, given layoffs and such -- are on the rise. It is thought that this might be due to the variety of corporate scandals ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | 3 comments

Ebbers: Guilty of Being a Lousy Leader

Relevancy Score: 48
Tue Feb 8, 2005 at 3:20 PM

There's been some fascinating detail pouring out of a New York courthouse during the trial of Bernie Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom Inc. Ebbers, of course, is on trial for charges of conspiracy and securities fraud in the $11 ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Bosses from Hell

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 46
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:57 AM

A rogue's gallery of the manipulative, abusive, grandiose -- and downright crooked -- executives who have strutted their way across the stage of American business.READ»

SOCIAL PROBLEMS | Comment

Madoff Scam May Be Worse Than Enron: Two Things You Can Do

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 46
Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 9:33 AM

Some experts say the Madoff meltdown will be worse than Enron.Are you as sick and tired of this as I am? Enron fell apart in 2001. Michael Milken was indicted in 1989--that's almost 20 years ago! And now we find out that Bernard ...READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | 1 comment

Rest in Peace

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 44
Mon Dec 15, 2003 at 2:08 PM

John W. Sidgmore, a Washington, DC-area technology pioneer and former WorldCom Inc. leader who helped uncover accounting fraud at that telecom giant, died last Thursday. After helping to build small UUNet Technologies Inc. into a $4 ...READ»

CULTURE | 3 comments

The Bagel Test

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 41
Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 5:37 PM

Are the people you work with honest? Take the bagel test. One leader brought bagels into the office every week and set out a basket to solicit contributions to help cover the costs. The pay-up rate? 95%. But when he left that job to ...READ»

REDBOX | 3 comments

Redbox Antitrust Case Can Proceed Against Universal, Federal Judge Says

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 40
Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 9:22 AM

Redbox scored at least a partial victory in its battle with a triumvirate of Hollywood studios yesterday as a federal court ruled the company can proceed with an antitrust lawsuit filed last October against GE's Universal Studios. ...READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS | 2 comments

Conspiracy of Fools

Relevancy Score: 35
Mon Mar 14, 2005 at 10:05 AM

Kurt Eichenwald's new book on the Enron scandals, Conspiracy of Fools, is being published today. It's richly-detailed and highly illuminating. Eichenwald portrays the debacle as an explosive combination of crime and incompetence. He ...READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS | Comment

Reader's Choice

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:56 AM

An extensive study offers lessons from the rogues' gallery of business.READ»

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