1872
- Credit Mobilier scandal broke (illegal manipulation of
contracts, few men contracted with themselves or assignees for
the construction of the railroad), disclosed that Congressman
Oakes Ames (MA) had sold shares Credit Mobilier to fellow
congressmen at a price greatly below the true value of the
stock: actual construction costs of the Union Pacific from Omaha
to Promontory Point, Utah, where the last spike was driven in
1869, have been estimated as in excess of $44 million, while the
Credit Mobilier charged more than $94 million; shares were sold
at prices lower than the stock was worth to members of both the
legislative and executive branches of the government under
liberal terms allowing the purchaser to pay for his stock out of
the accumulating dividends, guaranteeing the purchaser against
loss, and offering to buy back the stock if it were no longer
wanted. dividends in one year amounted to more than $300 per
share, and the total sum distributed among politicians has been
estimated at $33 million; leaders of the Credit Mobilier were
accused of having betrayed the government and the people and of
having seriously jeopardized the repayment to the government of
the subsidies provided in the Pacific Railroad bills.
November 26, 1872
- An article in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin exposed The
Great Diamond Hoax, one of the most notorious mining swindles of
the time; Kentucky cousins Philip Arnold and John Slack
convinced San Francisco capitalists to invest in a worthless
mine in the northwestern corner of Colorado; arrived in San
Francisco in 1872, tried to deposit bag of uncut diamonds at a
ban; when questioned, two men quickly disappeared, acted as if
they were reluctant to talk about their discovery; bank director
named William Ralston tracked down the men; assumed he was
dealing with unsophisticated country bumpkins, set out to take
control of diamond mine; two cousins agreed to take a
blindfolded mining expert to the site; reported mine was rich
with diamonds and rubies; Ralston joined with number of other
prominent San Francisco financiers, formed New York Mining and
Commercial Company, capitalized at $10 million; began selling
stock to eager investors. Arnold and Slack received about
$600,000 (small change in comparison to supposed value of
diamond mine); at least 25 diamond exploration companies formed
in subsequent months (convinced American West must have many
other major deposits of diamonds); Clarence King, little-known
young leader of a geographical survey of 40th parallel, exposed
cousins' diamond mine as a hoax; was suspicious of mine from the
start; correctly deduced the location of supposed mine, raced to
investigate, realized swindlers had salted the mine (some gems
showed jewelers-cut marks); exposed the fraud in newspapers,
Great Diamond Hoax collapsed; Ralston returned $80,000 to each
of his investors, never able to recover $600,000 given to two
cousins; Arnold lived out the few remaining years of his life in
luxury in Kentucky, died of pneumonia in 1878; Slack last
reported to have worked as coffin maker in New Mexico; King's
role in exposing fraud brought him national recognition, became
first director of the United States Geological Survey.
1926 -
McKesson & Robbins, Inc. (acquired in hostile takeover in 1967
by Foremost Dairies of San Francisco) acquired by Frank D.
Coster of Adelphi Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company,
manufacturer of high alcohol-content products such as hair
tonic, cosmetics (real name
Philip Musica,
twice-convicted criminal); enlisted three brothers in scheme to
skim cash, inflate assets; 1938 - true
identity revealed; company treasurer became suspicious of large
payments to one customer; ordered Dun & Bradstreet credit
reports on customer - customer fictitious; December 6,
1938 - SEC opened investigation into company's
accounting, New York Stock Exchange suspended trading of
company’s shares;
investigation revealed Coster had embezzled $3 million, inflated
company's assets by more than 20% fictitious (inventories,
accounts receivable); led to changes in audit procedures
(observing inventory, confirming accounts receivable made
standard procedure in accounting profession).
December 1, 1955
- Michael Monus, former president of the Phar-Mor drug
store chain, found guilty of embezzling roughly $1 billion from
company to finance extravagant lifestyle; received twenty-year
prison sentence, $1 million fine.
1965 - Puerto
Rican immigrant John Mariotta invested $3,000 to start small
company in enovated brick garage in desolate area of the South
Bronx to manufacture baby carriages; 1970 - brought in a
partner, Fred Neuberger, focused on Department of Defense
contracts; 1987 - grew into $117 million Wedtech political
scandal (corruption and racketeering).
October 30, 1972 - All Nippon Airline (ANA)
announced its decision to purchase 21 Lockheed Tristar L101
(about $5 million each); primary candidate for its supplier of
new Jumbo passenger aircraft to replace its old Boeing 747
believed to be McDonald Douglas (for its DC10) because of its
ties with Mitsuibussan, who was a majority shareholder of ANA;
discovered that Lockheed paid 2.4 billion yen as a bribe to earn
purchase contract of its Tristar from ANA (500 million yen to
then Prime Minister Tanaka; 160 million yen to ANA's officials.;
1.7 billion yen to Kodama, right-wing middle man used by
Lockheed to distribute the rest of bribe among other political
leaders); July 27, 1976 - Kakuei Tanaka, former
Japanese prime minister, arrested in Lockheed bribery scandal;
August 16 - Tanaka indicted along with former
officers of the Marubeni Trading Corp.; Lockheed payoffs an
example of what the Japanese poetically refer to as kuroi kiri
(black mist), or corruption; Fall 1972 - Tanaka
connection involved two Lockheed sales coups: 1) decision of All
Nippon Airways, Japan's principal domestic carrier, to buy six
Lockheed TriStar jetliners instead of McDonnell Douglas or
Boeing competitors (order grew to 21); 2) government decision to
consider purchasing Lockheed P-3C Orions instead of developing a
Japanese-made antisubmarine aircraft; Tanaka convicted of having
received about $2 million in bribes from Lockheed to promote
sales while he was in office; August 26, 1976 -
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands resigned all his military and
political posts after accusations that he was involved in a
Lockheed bribery scandal; subsequently admitted (posthumously,
in an interview prior to his death) he took a million-dollar
bribe in exchange for providing contacts and helping the firm
win a government order for Starfighter 104 planes; gave rise to
the American Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
November 3, 1975 - An independent audit of
Mattel, one of the United States's largest toy
manufacturers, revealed that company officials fabricated press
releases, financial information to "maintain the appearance of
continued corporate growth."
August 16, 1984
- L.A. federal jury acquitted auto maker John DeLorean on
cocaine charges.
August 30, 1989
- A federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley
guilty of income tax evasion, acquitted her of extortion;
December 13, 1989 - Leona Helmsley, nicknamed the
"Queen of Mean" by the press, receives a four-year prison
sentence, 750 hours of community service, and a $7.1 million tax
fraud fine in New York. For many, Helmsley became the object of
loathing and disgust when she quipped that "only the little
people pay taxes"; sent to jail in 1992, released in 1994.
July 5, 1991 - Regulators in eight countries shut
down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International,
charging it with fraud, drug money laundering and illegal
infiltration into the U.S. banking system.
April 10,
1992 - Financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced in
Los Angeles to nine years in prison for swindling investors when
his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed (convictions later
overturned).
April 15, 1992 - Leona Helmsley began what was to
be four-year prison term in Lexington, KY for tax evasion
(served 18 months); admitted to evading IRS, though she refused
to see anything wrong in her actions; reasoned that wealthy,
famous were exempt from annual surrender to the IRS; explained,
"Only the little people pay taxes."
December 1, 1995
- Michael Monus, former president of Phar-Mor drugstore
chain, was found guilty of embezzling roughly $1 billion from
the company; received twenty-year prison sentence, $1 million
fine. According to prosecutors, Monus funneled money from
Phar-Mor to finance high-flying habits and to prop up
profit-poor minor league basketball venture. Embezzlement scheme
bled Phar-Mor dry, forced massive layoffs, extensive store
closings; went to federal court to stave off bankruptcy.
July 16, 1998
- Health Care Services Corporation, Medicare carrier for
both Illinois and Michigan, agreed to settle a pack of felony
charges by paying the federal government roughly $140 million;
charged with eight different counts of felony, including the
mishandling, and even shredding, of claims, and various attempts
to manipulate and obscure evidence; agreed to charges it had
blocked government attempts to audit company records.
December 6, 1999
- SabreTech, an aircraft maintenance company, was
convicted of mishandling the oxygen canisters blamed for the
cargo hold fire that caused the 1996 ValuJet crash in the
Everglades that killed 110 people.
November 28, 2001
- Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader,
collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an
$8.4 billion deal to take it over.
December 2, 2001
- Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection in one of the
largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history; 1985
- Houston Natural Gas, Internorth merged, formed Enron; rose as
high as number seven on Fortune 500 list of U.S. companies;
2000 - employed 21,000 people, revenue of $111 billion.
February 12, 2002
- Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay expressed ''profound
sadness'' about the collapse of the energy giant, but refused to
testify at a Senate hearing.
March 14, 2002
- Government charged Arthur Andersen accounting firm
with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in
the collapse of Enron; March 20, 2002 - Arthur
Andersen pleaded innocent to charges it had shredded documents
and deleted computer files related to Enron; March 26,
2002 - Arthur Andersen chief executive Joseph Berardino
resigned, bowed to mounting pressure as result of the accounting
firm's role in Enron scandal.
July 21, 2002
- Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for
bankruptcy protection about a month after disclosing it had
inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive
accounting.
August 7, 2002 -
Former ImClone Systems chief executive Samuel Waksal was
indicted in New York on charges of obstruction of justice and
bank fraud in addition to previous securities fraud and perjury
harges.
August 28, 2002 -
Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and
Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse. Both
later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
September 12, 2002
- Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged
with looting the conglomerate of hundreds of millions of
dollars; all three pleaded innocent at their arraignment in New
York.
September 23, 2002
- 24-count indictment charging conspiracy, securities fraud and
wire fraud was filed against the founding family, two executives
of bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications Corp.
September 26, 2002
- WorldCom former controller David Myers pleaded guilty to
securities fraud; said he was told by his managers to falsify
records in what became the largest corporate accounting scandal
in U.S. history.
October
15, 2002 - ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal
pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider
trading scandal.
October
31, 2002 - Federal grand jury in Houston
formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer
Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering,
conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to collapse of his
ex-employer.
June 4, 2003
- Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire,
hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with
obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud and lying
to investigators.
June 10, 2003
- ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than
seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading
scandal.
June 15, 2003
- A jury in Houston convicted accounting firm Arthur Andersen
of obstruction of justice.
July 7, 2003
- A federal judge approved a settlement, fined WorldCom
$750 million for its $11 billion accounting scandal.
November 4, 2003
- Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the
first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; eventually
acquitted.
January 14, 2004
- Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty
to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.
February 19, 2004
- Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was
charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in
connection with the energy trader's colossal collapse.
March 5, 2004
- Martha
Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the
government about why she'd unloaded her Imclone Systems Inc.
stock just before the price plummeted;
March 15, 2004
- resigned from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
July 7, 2004
- Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indicted on
criminal charges related to the energy company's collapse.
July 8, 2004
- Enron chairman Kenneth Lay pleaded innocent in Houston
to charges related to the company's collapse.
July 8, 2004
- Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and
his son Timothy were convicted in New York of looting the cable
company and deceiving investors.
July 16, 2004
- Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five
months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for
lying about a stock sale.
October 8, 2004
- Martha Stewart reported to the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in
West Virginia to begin serving her sentence for lying about a
stock sale.
March 15, 2005
- Bernard Ebbers, 63, ex-Chief of WorldCom is found
guilty in $11 billion fraud, largest corporate fraud in U.S.
history; highest executive yet to be convicted in a corporate
fraud case.
June 17, 2005 -
Dennis Kozlowski (ex-CEO) and Mark Swartz (ex-CFO) of Tyco
Industries found guilty of grand larceny, conspiracy,
securities fraud, falsifying business records - stealing up to
$157 million in unauthorized compensation, $400 million from
stock sales under false pretenses.
June 21, 2005
- John J. Rigas (80), founder of Adelphia Communications
Corporation (6th largest U. S. cable company) sentenced to
15 years in jail for looting hundreds of millions of dollars
from the company and concealing the company's debt burden from
investors. Thomas J. Rigas (49), son and former CFO was
sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in the fraud.
July 13, 2005
- Former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25
years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S.
history.
September 19, 2005
- L. Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco International,
convicted of stealing $150 million from the company, was
sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in a New York State prison and
fined $167 million. Mark H. Swartz, former CFO, received the
same sentence and fined $73 million..
October 7, 2005
- Five persons, including a convicted Mafia figure, went on
trial in Rome for the 1982 killing of Roberto Calvi, head of
Banco Ambrosiano and known as "God's banker" because of his
relationship with the Vatican; found hanging beneath a London
bridge weighed down with bricks and bank notes; initially ruled
a suicide, investigators believe Mafia killed him because he
pocketed money he was to launder.
December 28, 2005
- Former top Enron Corp. accountant Richard Causey
pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help pursue
convictions against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO
Jeffrey Skilling.
May 25, 2006 -
Ken Lay, former Chairman and CEO of Enron, was convicted on six
counts of fraud and conspiracy, four counts of bank fraud, free
on $5 million bond while awaiting sentencing in September;
July 5, 2006 - died of a heart attack (after being
convicted, before sentencing).
September 26, 2006
- Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was
sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison
for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
October 23, 2006
- Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron Corporation, was
sentenced to 24 years and four months in jail for his conviction
on 19 felony counts.
April 19, 2007
- A jury in Denver found Joseph Nacchio (57), former CEO of
Qwest Communications International Inc., guilty of 19 of 42
counts of insider trading; each counts related to 2001 sale of
$100.8 million in Qwest stock; sales made in midst of attempts
to inflate the stock's price by adopting aggressive, and
fraudulent, accounting rules to recognize revenue on swapped
fiber optic capacity; once exposed, company almost went
bankrupt; July 27, 2007 - sentenced to six years
in prison, ordered to pay a fine of $19 million, forfeit $52
million in illegal stock trades in 2001.
June 18, 2007 -
15th and last former Enron executive sentenced: Ken Rice, former
chief of Internet unit (Enron Broadband Services) was sentenced
to 27 months in prison, $50,000 fine, 2 years of supervision
after prison; testified against Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO.
July 13, 2007
- Conrad Black (Lord Black of Crossharbour), former head of
Hollinger International, was found guilty of three counts of
mail fraud, single count of obstruction of justice by a Chicago
jury (cleared of nine other counts, largely centered around
so-called non-compete agreements in which Mr. Black and others
were accused of skimming money from the sale of Hollinger assets
under the pretense of being paid not to compete with the new
owners); illegal payments from company in two schemes added up
to $6.1 million; November 2003 - ousted as chief
executive of Hollinger; once commanded far-flung media empire (iincluded
The Daily Telegraph in London, The Jerusalem Post, The Chicago
Sun-Times, many other papers in United States, Canada,
Australia); peak net worth was estimated at more than $400
million.
December 10, 2007
- U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve sentenced Conrad Black, former
chairman and chief executive of Hollinger International (now
known as Sun-Times Media Group Inc.), to 61/2 years in
prison, fined $125,000, forfeiture of $6.1 million in ill-gotten
gains for stealing $6.1 million from shareholders,
obstructing justice by removing 13 boxes of documents from his
Toronto office after warned not to do so; 2003 -
criminal allegations that Black, cohorts had looted company of
about $32 million through scheme in which they disguised bonuses
to themselves as payments not to compete with the new owners of
its newspapers; jury also had found Black's co-defendants
guilty.
January 7, 2009
- B. Ramalinga Raju, founder, chairman of Satyam Computer
Services, Ltd. (Hyderabad, India), India’s 4th largest IT
service provider (back-office design, consulting, customer
service, other work) with 53000+ employees [whose name is a
Sanskrit word meaning ‘Truth’], admitted that accounts, assets
had been falsified, profits inflated, amount of money owed to
company overstated (September quarter accounts included
non-existent cash, bank balances of $1billion, non-existent
accrued interest, other irregularities; reported 24% operating
margin, due to inflated revenue, profit figures, compared with
actual operating margin of 3%); biggest fraud in India's
corporate history."
July 21, 2009
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avoid involvement in Bermuda scheme while simultaneously running
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L'Original: d'Un Village Marocain aux Secrets de l'Affaire Elf,
le Parcours d'un Aventurier de la Vie. (Paris, FR: R.
Laffont, 369 p.). Guelfi, André; Elf-Aquitaine (Company);
Businessmen--France--Biography; Political corruption--France;
Petroleum industry and trade--Corrupt practices--France;
France--Biography.
(Elf-Aquitaine), Gilles Gaetner, Jean-Marie
Pontaut (2000). L'Homme Qui en Sait Trop: Alfred Sirven et
Les Milliards de l'Affaire Elf. (Paris, FR: Grasset, 265
p.). Sirven, Alfred, 1927- ; Elf-Aquitaine (Company); Political
corruption--France--Case studies.
(Elf-Aquitaine), Pierre Lethier (2001).
Argent Secret: l'Espion de l'Affaire Elf Parle. (Paris,
FR: Albin Michel, 252 p.). Elf-Aquitaine (Company); Political
corruption--France; Political corruption--Germany; Petroleum
industry and trade--Corrupt practices--France.
(Elf-Aquitaine), Fatima Belaïd (2002).
Une Epouse Encombrante: au Coeur de l'Empire Elf.
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR: Lafon, 343 p.). Belaïd, Fatima;
Elf-Aquitaine (Company); Executives' spouses--France--Biography;
Petroleum industry and trade--Corrupt practices--France;
Political corruption--France.
(Enron), Peter C. Fusaro and Ross M. Miller
(2002).
What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest
Bankruptcy in U. S. History. (New York, NY: Wiley, 240
p.). Enron Corporation; accounting fraud.
Ken Lay
- Enron
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Ken_Lay.jpg)
Andrew Fastow
- Enron
(http://www.forbes.com/media/faces/fastow_andrew.jpg)
Jeffrey Skilling
- Enron
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1755000/images/_1759618_skilling150.jpg)
(Enron), Robert Bryce; with an introduction by
Molly Ivins (2002).
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, Jealousy and the Death of Enron.
(New York, NY: Public Affairs, 394 p.). Writer from Austin, TX.
Enron Corp.--Corrupt practices; Energy industries--Corrupt
practices--United States; Business failures--United States.
(Enron), Brian Cruver; foreword by Steve Salbu
(2002).
Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider.
(New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 366 p.). Enron Employee March -
December, 2001. Enron Corp.--Corrupt practices; Energy
industries--Corrupt practices--United States; Business
failures--United States.
(Enron), Loren Fox (2002).
Enron: The Rise and Fall. (New York, NY: Wiley, 384 p.).
Enron Corp.; Energy industries--Corrupt practices--United
States; Business failures--United States--Case studies. Of Enron
books this offers most detailed explanation of Enron as a
business.
(Enron), Vijay Prashad (2002).
Fat Cats and Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capitalism.
(Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 144 p.). Associate Professor
and Director, International Studies (Trinity College). Energy
industries--Corrupt practices--United States; Enron Corp.
(Enron), Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller
(2003).
24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Discovered the
Lies That Destroyed Faith in Corporate America. (New
York, NY: HarperBusiness, 416 p.). Reporters (Wall Street
Journal). Enron Corp.; Energy industries--Corrupt
practices--United States; Business failures--United States--Case
studies.
(Enron), Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
(2003).
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous
Fall of Enron. (New York, NY: Portfolio, 435 p.).
Reporters (Fortune Magazine). Enron Corp.--History; Energy
industries--Corrupt practices--United States; Business
failures--United States--Case studies.
(Enron), Lynn Brewer with Matthew Scott Hansen
(2004).
Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story.
(Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 409 p.). Brewer, Lynn; Enron
Corp.--Corrupt practices; Enron Corp.--Management; Energy
industries--Corrupt practices--United States; Whistle
blowing--United States.
(Enron), Edited by Paul H. Dembinski ... [et
al.] (2005).
Enron and World Finance: A Case Study in Ethics. (New
York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 320 p.). Professor (University of
Fribourg, Switzerland). Enron Corp.--Corrupt practices--Case
studies; Energy industries--Corrupt practices--United States;
Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies;
Business ethics--United States--Case studies; Corporate
governance--United States--Case studies; Corporate
culture--United States--Case studies. How, where ethics came into
play; lessons, possible remedies that may prevent
financial system from falling apart as result of excessive
greed or over-regulation.
(Enron), Kurt Eichenwald (2005).
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story. (New York, NY:
Broadway Books, 768 p.). Reporter (New York Times). Lay, Kenneth
L.; Enron Corp.--Corrupt practices; Energy industries--Corrupt
practices--United States; Business failures--United States.
Rampant corporate
lawbreaking via aggressive accounting, other business
practices.
(Enron), Malcolm S. Salter (2008).
Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron’s Collapse.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 525 p.). James J. Hill
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus (Harvard Business
School). Enron Corp. --Corrupt practices; Enron Corp.
--Management; Business ethics --United States.
Insight into individual actions,
organizational processes of Enron’s collapse; social
pathologies, administrative failures that fostered company’s
ethical drift, inhibited board of directors from exercising
effective governance and control; practical recommendations for
preventing future Enron-type disasters.
(Farmers' Exchange Bank), Jane Kamensky
(2008).
The Exchange Artist: A Story of Paper, Bricks, and Ash in Early
National America. (New York, NY: Viking, 464 p.).
Associate Professor of American History (Brandeis University).
Dexter, Andrew, 1779-1837; Businessmen--United States; Boston
(Mass.)--Social conditions; United States--Social conditions--To
1865. Andrew Dexter Jr.,
financial-pioneer-turned-confidence-man; acquired control of
banks, printed money ('paper') to fraudulently finance real
estate speculation, issued loans to himself, 'secured' by his
(unendorsed) promissory notes repayable at time he deemed
proper, exchanged for purchase of property (worthless paper).
responsible for
first bank failure in United States (February 27, 1809).
Andrew Dexter
Jr. -
Farmers' Exchange Bank
(http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media_content/m-3475_thumb.jpg)
(Franklin National), Joan Edelman Spero
(1980).
The Failure of the Franklin National Bank: Challenge to the
International Banking System. (New York, NY: Columbia
University Press [for Council on Foreign Relations], 235 p.).
Franklin National Bank; Franklin National Bank; Banks and
banking, International; Banques internationales.
Michele Sindona
(Franklin National)
(http://www.misteriditalia.it/casosindona/fotointro.gif)
(Franklin National), Luigi DiFonzo. (1983).
St. Peter's Banker. (New York, NY: Watts, 308 p.).
Sindona, Michele; Catholic Church--Finance;
Bankers--Italy--Biography.
(Franklin National), Nick Tosches (1986).
Power on Earth. (New York, NY: Arbor House, 290 p.).
Sindona, Michele; Commercial criminals--Italy--Biography; Banks
and banking--Corrupt practices; International finance--Corrupt
practices.
(Franklin National), Walter S. Ross (1987).
People's Banker: The Story of Arthur T. Roth and the Franklin
National Bank. (New Canaan, CT: Keats Pub., 288 p.).
Roth, Arthur T.; Franklin National Bank; Bankers--United
States--Biography; Bank failures--United States.
(Guinness), Nick Kochan and Hugh Pym (1987).
The Guinness Affair: Anatomy of a Scandal. (Bromley:
Helm, 198 p.). Guinness (Firm)--History; Brewing industry--Great
Britain--Corrupt practices.
(Guinness), James Saunders (1989).
Nightmare: The Ernest Saunders Story. (London, UK:
Hutchison, 288 p.). Guinness (Firm)--History; Brewing
industry--Great Britain--Corrupt practices. Guinness scandal as seen by son
of Ernest Saunders.
(HealthSouth), William Cast (2005).
Going South: An Inside Look at Corruption and Greed, and the
Power of the Health South Message Board. (Chicago, IL:
Dearborn Trade Pub., 320 p.). Former Joint Venture Partner in
HealthSouth Corporation. HealthSouth (Firm)--Accounting;
Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies;
Business ethics--United States--Case studies; Accounting
fraud--United States. Journey of HealthSouth celebrity CEO and founder Richard Scrushy,
from boardroom to courtroom.
(Homestake), David McClintick (1977).
Stealing from the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle. (New
York, NY: M. Evans, 335 p.). Home-Stake Production Company;
Securities fraud--United States--Case studies; Petroleum
industry and trade--United States; Swindlers and
swindling--United States--Case studies.
(Honda), Steve Lynch (1997).
Arrogance and Accords: The Inside Story of the Honda Scandal.
(Irving, TX: Pecos Press, 310 p.). American Honda Motor Company;
Honda Accord automobile; Automobile industry and trade--Corrupt
practices--United States; Commercial crimes--United States;
Automobile dealers--United States; Fraud--United States.
(Julian Petroleum), Guy W. Finney (1929).
The Great Los Angeles Bubble, A Present-Day Story of Colossal
Financial Jugglery and of Penalties Paid (Los Angeles, CA:
The Milton Forbes Company, 203 p.).
C. C. Julian
- Julian Petroleum
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2006-11/26618593.jpg)
(Julian Petroleum), Jules
Tygiel (1996).
The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During
the Roaring Twenties (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 398 p. [orig. pub. 1994]). Julian Petroleum
Corporation; Julian Petroleum Corporation; Petroleum industry
and trade--Corrupt practices--California--Los Angeles.
(Clarence King), Robert Wilson (2006).
The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond
Hoax, Clarence King in the Old West. (New York, NY:
Scribner, 320 p.). Editor (American Scholar). King, Clarence,
1842-1901; Geologists--United States--Biography; West
(U.S.)--Intellectual life. Collision of science and business.
1872 - Clarence King
exposed The
Great Diamond Hoax in Colorado by
Kentucky cousins Philip
Arnold, John Slack, one of most notorious mining
swindles of time (took
William Ralston, founder Bank of California,
other prominent San
Francisco financiers);
first director of United
States Geological Survey.
Clarence King
- Great Diamond Hoax
(http://online.wr.usgs.gov/outreach/images/king1869_large.jpg)
(Clarence King), Martha A. Sandweiss (2009).
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across
the Color Line. (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 384 p.).
Professor of American Studies and History (Amherst College).
King, Clarence, 1842-1901; King, Ada, 1860-1964; King, Clarence,
1842-1901 --Marriage; African Americans --Race identity --Case
studies; Passing (Identity) --United States --Case studies;
Married people --United States --Case studies; Deception
--United States --Case studies; African American women
--Biography; United States --Race relations --History --19th
century; New York (N.Y.) --Biography. Clarence King
exposed Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 (swindled San Francisco
financiers); hero of 19th century western history, first
director of United States Geological Survey;
lived double life for 13 years - 1)
as celebrated white explorer, geologist and writer; 2) as black
Pullman porter, steel worker named James Todd; dramatic tale of family
built along fault lines of celebrity, class, race.
(Koscot Interplanetary), John Frasca (1969).
Con Man or Saint? (Anderson, SC: Droke House, 223 p.).
Turner, Glenn, 1935- ; Success in business.
Glenn W. Turner
- Koscot Interplanetary
(http://www.masterzenith.com/images/glenn_w_turner.jpg)
(Koscot Interplanetary), John Frasca (1972).
The Unstoppable Glenn Turner. (Orlando, FL: Glenn W.
Turner Enterprises, 218 p.). Turner, Glenn, 1935- ; Success in
business.
(Koscot Interplanetary), Kenneth Michael
Robinson (1976).
The Great American Mail-Fraud Trial: United States of America
vs Glenn W. Turner, F. Lee Bailey, Dare To Be Great, Koscot
Interplanetary Incorporated, et al. (New York,
NY: Nash Pub., 228 p.). Turner, Glenn, 1935- ; Bailey, F. Lee
(Francis Lee), 1933- ; Mail fraud--United States.
(Koscot Interplanetary), Rudy Maxa (1977).
Dare To Be Great. (New York, NY: Morrow, 256 p.).
Turner, Glenn, 1935- ; Fraud--United States--Case studies;
Swindlers and swindling--United States--Biography.
(Lockheed), Berkeley Rice (1971).
The C-5A Scandal;: An Inside Story of the Military-Industrial
Complex. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 238 p.).
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation--Corrupt practices;
Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies;
Corporations, American--Corrupt practices--Case studies.;
Commercial crimes--Case studies.Lockheed Aircraft; C-5A.
(Lockheed), David Boulton (1978).
The Grease Machine. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 289
p.). Lockheed Aircraft Corporation--Corrupt practices;
Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies;
Corporations, American--Corrupt practices--Case studies.;
Commercial crimes--Case studies.
(LA Kings), Bruce McNall with Michael
D'Antonio (2003).
Fun While It Lasted: My Rise and Fall in the Land of Fame and
Fortune. (New York, NY: Hyperion, 368 p.). Former Owner
L. A. Kings. McNall, Bruce, 1950- ; Commercial
criminals--California--Biography; Fraud--California--Case
studies; Businessmen--California--Biography; Capitalists and
financiers--California--Biography; Hockey team
owners--California--Biography.
(MCI WorldCom), Walter Pavlo, Jr. & Neil
Weinberg; with a foreword by Dennis Kneale (2007).
Stolen Without a Gun: Confessions from Inside History’s Biggest
Accounting Fraud: The Collapse of MCI Worldcom. (Tampa,
FL: Etika Books, 285 p.). Embezzled $6 million; Senior Editor
(Forbes). MCI WorldCom--Accounting--Corrupt practices;
Corporations--Accounting--Corrupt practices--United States;
Fraud--United States. Oversaw $2 billion operation at MCI Communications, caught
embezzling $6 million; 2003 - prison release.
(McKesson), Charles Keats (1982).
Magnificent Masquerade: The Strange Case of Dr. Coster and Mr.
Musica. (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 276 p. [orig. pub.
1964]). Musica, Philip, 1884-1938; McKesson and Robbins, Inc.
(Milbank Tweed), Milton C. Regan, Jr. (2004).
Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer.
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 402 p.). Professor
of Law (Georgetown University Law Center). Gellene,
John--Trials, litigation, etc.; Bucyrus-Erie Company--Trials,
litigation, etc.; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy--Trials,
litigation, etc.; Trials (Perjury)--Wisconsin--Milwaukee;
Bankruptcy lawyers--United States; Bankruptcy--United States;
Legal ethics--United States. Conflicting interests.
(National Medical Enterprises), Leon Bing
(1997).
A Wrongful Death: One Child’s Fatal Encounter with Public Health
and Private Greed. (New York, NY: Villard Books, 285
p.). Scheck, Christy; National Medical Enterprises--Corrupt
practices; Psychiatric errors--United States--Case studies;
Hospitals, Proprietary--Corrupt practices--United States;
Psychiatric hospitals--Corrupt practices--United States;
Insurance crimes--United States; Teenagers--Suicidal
behavior--United States--Case studies; Wrongful death--United
States--Case studies.
(National Student Marketing), Andrew Tobias
(1971).
The Funny Money Game. (New York, NY: Playboy Press, 219
p.). National Student Marketing Corporation.
(OPM Leasing), Stephen Fenichell (1985).
Other People's Money: The Rise and Fall of OPM Leasing Services.
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 305 p.). Computer Leases-Corrupt
Practices, OPM Leasing Services.
(OPM Leasing), Robert P. Gandossy (1985).
Bad Business: The OPM Scandal and the Seduction of the
Establishment. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 262 p.). OPM
Leasing Services; Computer leases--Corrupt practices--United
States--Case studies.
(Orange County), Mark Baldassare (1998).
When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California, 317 p.). Senior Fellow
at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and
Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the
University of California, Irvine. Citron, Robert L.; Investment
of public funds--California--Orange County; Derivative
securities; Debts, Public--California--Orange County; Municipal
bankruptcy--California--Orange County.
(Pfizer), Peter Rost (2006).
The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman.
(Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 224 p.). Former Vice President
of Marketing (Pharmacia). Rost, Peter; Pfizer Inc.--Management;
Pharmacia Corp--Management; Pfizer Inc.; Pharmacia Corp.;
Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices; Pharmaceutical
ethics; Whistle blowing; United States--Personal Narratives;
Whistleblowing--Personal Narratives; Drug Industry--organization
& administration--Personal Narratives; Ethics,
Pharmacy--Personal Narratives. Pfizer illegally promoted
off-label use of Genotropin (human growth hormone) as anti-aging
drug; entered into "favorable contracts" with distributors,
doctors; paid kickbacks through "consulting agreements".
(Polly Peck International), Tim Hindle (1991).
The Sultan of Berkeley Square: Asil Nadir and the Thatcher Years.
(London, UK: Macmillan, 228 p.). Nadir, Asil, 1941- ; Polly Peck
International--History; Businesspeople--Great
Britain--Biography.
Asil Nadir
- Polly Peck
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39411000/jpg/_39411762_nadir_203.jpg)
(Polly Peck International), David Barcharsd
(1992).
Asil Nadir and the Rise and Fall of Polly Peck. (London,
UK: V. Gollancz, 288 p.). Nadir, Asil, 1941- ; Polly Peck
(Firm); Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography.
(Polly Peck International), Bilge Nevzat with
Gill Fraser (1999).
The Turquoise Conspiracy: Asil Nadir, The Collapse of Polly Peck
and the Persecution of a Family. (London, UK: Noble
House, 323 p.). Nadir, Asil, 1941- ; Polly Peck International;
Fraud--Great Britain; International business enterprises--Great
Britain.
(Polly Peck International), Raymond Zelker
(2001).
The Polly Peck Story: A Memoir. (London, UK: Strathearn,
192 p.). Nadir, Asil, 1941- ; Polly Peck International--History;
International business enterprises--Great Britain.
(Robins - founded 1866 by
Albert Hartley Robins; sold in 1989
to American Home Products), Morton Mintz (1985).
At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield.
(New York, NY: Pantheon, 308 p.). A.H. Robins Company;
Intrauterine contraceptives industry; Dalkon Shield
(Intrauterine contraceptive); Intrauterine
contraceptives--Complications.
Albert Hartley Robins
(left;
http://www.ecrobins.com/AHRobinsPharm2.gif)
(Robins -1970 company acquired rights to
Dalkon Shield contraceptive; domestic sales suspended in 1974),
Susan Perry and Jim Dawson (1985).
Nightmare: Women and the Dalkon Shield. (New York, NY:
Macmillan, 261 p.). A.H. Robins Company; Dalkon Shield
(Intrauterine contraceptive); Intrauterine
contraceptives--Complications; Intrauterine contraceptives
industry--United States.
(Robins), Richard B. Sobol (1991).
Bending the Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy.
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 408 p.). A.H. Robins
Company--Trials, litigation, etc.; Bankruptcy--United States;
Products liability--Intrauterine contraceptives--United States;
Dalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive).
(Robins), Mary F. Hawkins (1997).
Unshielded: The Human Cost of the Dalkon Shield.
(Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press,, 154 p.). A.H. Robins
Company; Dalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive);
Intrauterine contraceptives industry--United States;
Intrauterine contraceptives--Complications; Products
liability--Intrauterine contraceptives--United States.
(Royal Mail), Edwin Green & Michael Moss
(1982). A
Business of National Importance: The Royal Mail Shipping Group,
1902-1937. (New York, NY: Methuen, 291 p.). Merchant
marine--Great Britain--History; Shipping--Great
Britain--History.
Lord Kylsant - Royal
Mail
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Lord_Kylsant.jpg)
(S & L - Lincoln Savings & Loan), Michael
Binstein and Charles Bowden (1993).
Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions. (New
York, NY: Random House, 420 p.). Keating, Charles H.; Lincoln
Savings & Loan Association -- Corrupt practices; Savings and
loan association failures -- California; Securities fraud --
United States.
Charles Keating
(http://www.nndb.com/people/
648/000050498/charles-keating-45.jpg)
(S & L), Ned Eichler (1989).
The Thrift Debacle. (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 163 p.). Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System (U.S.)--History; Thrift institutions--United
States--History--20th century; Banks and banking--United
States--State supervision--History--20th century.
(S & L), Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker, and Paul
Muolo (1989).
Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans.
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 443 p.). Savings and loan
associations -- United States; Savings and loan associations --
Deregulation -- United States.
(S & L), Martin Mayer (1990).
The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and
Loan Industry. (New York, NY: Scribner, 354 p.). Savings
and loan associations--United States--Management; Savings and
loan associations--Deregulation--United States; Savings and loan
associations--Corrupt practices--United States.
(S & L), Martin Lowy (1991).
High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle. (New
York, NY: Praeger, 321 p.). Savings and loan associations --
Corrupt practices -- United States; Savings and loan
associations -- Deregulation -- United States; Savings and loan
associations -- United States -- State supervision.
(S & L), Kathleen Day (1993).
S & L Hell: The People and the Politics Behind the $1 Trillion
Savings and Loan Scandal. (New York, NY: Norton, 416
p.). Savings and loan associations--Corrupt practices--United
States; Savings and loan associations--Deregulation--United
States; Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995; United
States--Economic conditions--1981-.
(S & L), L. William Seidman (1993).
Full Faith and Credit: The Great S & L Debacle and Other
Washington Sagas. (New York, NY: Times Books, 300 p.).
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- History; Resolution
Trust Corporation (U.S.) -- History; Savings and Loan Bailout,
1989- ; Savings and loan associations -- State supervision.
(S &L), Kitty Calavita, Henry N. Pontell,
Robert H. Tillman (1997).
Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan
Crisis. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
263 p.). Professors in the School of Social Ecology (University
of California, Irvine); Tillman is Associate Professor of
Sociology (St. John's University). Savings and loan
associations--Corrupt practices--United States; Savings and Loan
Bailout, 1989-1995; Commercial crimes--United States.
(S & L), William K. Black (2005).
The Best Way To Rob a Bank Is To Own One: How Corporate
Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry.
(Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 329 p.). Former Director
of Litigation (Federal Home Loan Bank Board). Savings and loan
associations--Corrupt practices--United States; Savings and loan
association failures--United States; Savings and Loan Bailout,
1989-1995. Control fraud.
(Sotheby's), Christopher Mason (2004).
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction
House Scandal. (New York, NY: Putnam, 416 p.).
Journalist. Sotheby's (Firm)--Corrupt practices; Christie's
International Group--Corrupt practices; Price fixing;
Art--Prices; Auctions--Corrupt practices; Art auctions--Corrupt
practices.
A. Alfred Taubman
- Sotheby's
(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/54/2006/LWZ4.jpg)
(Sotheby's), A. Alfred Taubman (2007).
Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury
Retailing Pioneer. (New York, NY: Collins, 224 p.).
Taubman, A. Alfred; Businessmen--United States--Biography;
Entrepreneurship--United States--Biography; Architects--United
States--Biography. Dyslexic Jewish kid from Detroit grew up to be billionaire
retailing pioneer, respected philanthropist and, at age 78, a
federal prisoner for price-fixing.
(Teapot Dome), Laton McCartney (2008).
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White
House and Tried To Steal the Country. (New York, NY:
Random House, 368 p.). Teapot Dome Scandal; Harding, Warren G.
(Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Oil. Teapot Dome Scandal, 1921-1924:
hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious
oil barons, crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs;
murder, suicide, blackmail; White House cronyism; excesses of
the Jazz Age.
Albert
Fall -
Teapot Dome (Secretary of the Interior - Harding
Administration;
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/bioguide/photo/F/
F000011.jpg)
(Tollgate Holdings), Frank Welsh (1999).
Dangerous Deceits. (London, UK: HarperCollins, 377 p.).
Askin, Julian, 1948- ;Afrikaner Broederbond; Commercial
crimes--South Africa; Consolidation and merger of
corporations--England--London; Banks and banking--Corrupt
practices--South Africa; Banks and banking--Corrupt
practices--England--London.
(U-Haul), Ronald J. Watkins (1993).
Birthright: Murder, Greed, and Power in the U-Haul Family
Dynasty. (New York, NY: Morrow, 425 p.). Shoen, Leonard
Samuel, 1916- ; Shoen family; U-Haul International--Officials
and employees--Biography; Businessmen--United States--Biography;
Murder--United States--Case studies.
(Union Générale, Paris), Jean Bouvier (1960).
Le Krach de l'Union Générale, 1878-1885. (Paris, FR:
Presses universitaires de France, 308 p.). Bontoux, Euge`ne,
1820-1905; Union Générale, Paris; Lyon (France)--Economic
conditions.
(Union Générale, Paris), Jeannine
Verdès-Leroux (1969). Scandale Financier et Antisémitisme
Catholique, Le Krach de l'Union Générale. (Paris, FR:
Éditions de Centurion, 256 p.). Union Générale, Paris;
Bankruptcy--France--Case studies; Antisemitism--France--History.
(United American Bank), Sandra Lea (2000).
Whirlwind: The Butcher Banking Scandal. (Oak Ridge, TN:
J. Lord, 647 p.). Butcher, Jacob Franklin, 1936- ; Butcher,
Cecil Hilgie, 1938- ; Banks and banking--Corrupt
practices--United States; Bankers--Biography.
(UnumProvident Company), Ray Bourhis (2005).
Insult to Injury: Insurance, Fraud, and the Big Business of Bad
Faith. (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 263 p.).
Partner with the Law Firm of Bourhis & Wolfson (San Francisco,
CA), Court-Appointed Special Master Overseeing Reforms in the
California Department of Insurance, Appointed by U.S. Senator
Barbara Boxer to her Federal Judicial Selection Advisory
Committee. UnumProvident Company (Chattanooga, Tenn.)--Trials,
litigation, etc.; Tort liability of insurance companies--United
States; Disability insurance claims--United States; Bad faith
(Law)--United States; Insurance companies--Corrupt
practices--United States. Case
study in bad faith double-dealing by insurance provider;
abrogation of policy-holder rights.
(Wedtech), William Sternberg and Matthew C.
Harrison, Jr. (1989).
Feeding Frenzy: The Inside Story of Wedtech. (New York,
NY: Holt, 326 p.). Wedtech (Firm); Defense contracts--Corrupt
practices--United States.
(Wedtech), James Traub (1990).
Too Good To Be True: The Outlandish Story of Wedtech.
(New York, NY: Doubleday, 379 p.). Writer, New York Times
Magazine. Wedtech (Firm); Defense contracts--Corrupt
practices--United States; Government purchasing--Corrupt
practices--United States.
(Wedtech), Marilyn W. Thompson (1990).
Feeding the Beast: How Wedtech Became the Most Corrupt Little
Company in America. (New York, NY: Scribner, 337 p.).
Wedtech (Firm); Defense contracts--Corrupt practices--United
States; Government purchasing--Corrupt practices--United States.
(WorldCom), Keith Brody, Sancha Dunstan
(2003).
The Great Telecoms Swindle: How the Collapse of WorldCom Finally
Exposed the Technology Myth. (Oxford, UK: Capstone, 208
p.). WorldCom (Firm)--Corrupt practices;
Telecommunication--Corrupt practices; Telecommunication--Case
studies; Telecommunication; Business failures--Case studies;
Telecommunication--History.
Bernie Ebbers
- Worldcom
(http://www.forbes.com/media/moreon/ebbers_bernie.jpg)
(WorldCom), Lynne Jeter (2003).
Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom. (Hoboken,
NJ: Wiley, 272 p.). WorldCom (Firm)--Corrupt practices;
Telecommunication--Corrupt practices--United States; Business
failures--United States.
(WorldCom), Cynthia Cooper (2008).
Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate
Whistleblower. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 416 p.). Vice
President of Internal Audit (WorldCom, MCI). Cooper, Cynthia,
1964- ; WorldCom (Firm)--Corrupt practices; Accountants--United
States--Biography; Whistle blowing--United States.
Exposed largest corporate fraud
in history; guide to decision-making process that led her to
"blow the whistle", role her personal faith, ethics played; tone
set at top is critical to fostering ethical environment in
work-place.
(Yazoo Land Fraud), C. Peter Magrath (1966).
Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic; Case of Fletcher v.
Peck. (Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 243 p.).
New England Mississippi Land Company; Yazoo Fraud, 1795.
Margaret Allen (1997).
The Dirty Dozen: The World's Greatest Financial Disasters and
Frauds. (Singapore: Times Books International, 208 p.).
Commercial crimes; Financial institutions, International.
Isadore Barmash (1972).
Great Business Disasters; Swindlers, Bunglers, and Frauds in
American industry (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 309 p.).
Bankruptcy--United States--Case studies; Commercial
crimes--United States--Case studies; Swindlers and
swindling--United States--Case studies.
Murray T. Bloom (1957).
Money of Their Own: The Great Counterfeiters. (New York,
NY: Scribner, 302 p.). Counterfeits and counterfeiting.
Tyler Bridges (2001).
Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the
Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards. (New York, NY: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 422 p.). Edwards, Edwin W.;
Gambling--Louisiana; Gambling industry--Corrupt
practices--Louisiana; Political corruption--Louisiana.
Simon Carswell (2006).
Something Rotten: Irish Banking Scandals. (Dublin, IR:
Gill & Macmillan, 257 p.). Banks and banking--Corrupt
practices--Ireland; Bankers--Malpractice--Ireland.
Major scandals that have rocked
Irish banking over last 30 years
Paul M. Clikeman (2008).
Called to Account: Fourteen Financial Frauds that Shaped the
American Accounting Profession. (New York, NY: Routledge,
345 p.). Associate Professor of Accounting, Robins School of
Business (University of Richmond). Accounting fraud --United
States; Corporations --Corrupt practices --United States
--Accounting; Accounting --Standards --United States; Fraud.
How
accounting fraud has affected business practices in U.S.,
internationally, directly led to
development of accounting standards, legislation; tricks
fraudsters used to fool their auditors.
Marshall B. Clinard (1990).
Corporate Corruption: The Abuse of Power. (New York, NY:
Praeger, 215 p.). Corporations--Corrupt practices--United
States.
E. H. Cookridge (1967).
The Baron of Arizona. (New York, NY: John Day Co., 304
p.). Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914; Arizona--Biography.
A. Larry Elliott and Richard J. Schroth
(2002).
How Companies Lie: Why Enron Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg.
(New York, NY: Crown Business, 192 p.). Corporations--Corrupt
practices; Business ethics.
Robert K. Elliott, John J. Willingham (1980).
Management Fraud: Detection and Deterrence. (New York,
NY: Petrocelli Books, 300 p.). Commercial crimes--United
States--Addresses, essays, lectures; White collar crimes--United
States--Addresses, essays, lectures; Fraud--United
States--Addresses, essays, lectures.
Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel (2008).
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of
Nations. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
`250 p.). Associate Professor of Economics (University of
California, Berkeley); Lambert Professor of Social Enterprise
(Columbia Business School). Corruption --Economic aspects;
Political corruption --Economic aspects; Smuggling.
Dark side of
economic development; foreign aid money
falls into hands of corrupt government officials, rebel leaders,
black marketeers; flourish where legal
institutions are weak, people are most in need; recommendations
for new system of emergency aid for countries suffering from
corruption, poverty.
Charles Franklin (1969).
They Walked a Crooked Mile; An Account of the Greatest Scandals,
Swindlers, and Outrages of All Time. (New York, NY: Hart
Pub. Co., 413 p.). History--Miscellanea;
Scandals--History--Miscellanea; Swindlers and
swindling--History--Miscellanea.
Eds. Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
(2006).
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History.
(Chicago, IL: Glaeser and Claudia Goldin., 384 p.). Professor of
Economics (Harvard University), Director of the John F. Kennedy
School of Government’s Taubman Center for State and Local
Government; Henry Lee Professor of Economics (Harvard
University), Director of the Development of the American Economy
Program and research associate at the NBER. Corruption--United
States--History; Political corruption--United States--History;
Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--History;
Corruption--United States--Prevention--History.
Nineteenth
century American fraud, corruption, forces that led to
their decline within United States.
Kenneth R. Gray, Larry A. Frieder, George W.
Clark, Jr. (2005).
Corporate Scandals: The Many Faces of Greed. (St. Paul,
MN: Paragon House, 320 p.). Eminent Scholar Chair Professor of
International Management (School of Business & Industry, Florida
A & M University); Eminent Scholar Chair Professor of Financial
Services (Florida A & M University); Associate Professor of
Organizational Behavior and Ethics (School of Business &
Industry, Florida A&M University). Commercial crimes--United
States; Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States.
Stewart Hamilton and Alicia Micklethwait
(2006).
Greed and Corporate Failure: The Lessons from Recent Disasters.
(New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 256 p.). Professor of
Accounting and Finance (IMD, Switzerland); MBA from IMD.
Business failures--Case studies; Corporations--Finance--Case
studies; Accounting--Corrupt practices--Case studies.
Six main causes of failure.
Valerie P. Hans (2000).
Business on Trial: The Civil Jury and Corporate Responsibility.
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 269 p.). Professor in the
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice (University of
Delaware). Jury--United States--Decision making; Tort liability
of corporations--United States; Social responsibility of
business.
James S. Henry (2005).
The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy.
(New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 417 p. [orig. pub. 2003]).
Former Chief Economist for McKinsey & Co., VP Strategy for
IBM/Lotus. Transnational crime; Crime and globalization.
Ed. Steven Hiatt; introduction by John Perkins
(2007).
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men
and the Web of Global Corruption. (San Francisco, CA:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 250 p.). International business
enterprises--Corrupt practices; Political corruption; Structural
adjustment (Economic policy); Dependency; Globalization--Social
aspects. How First Word
countries have used "economic hit men," (World Bank, IMF,
coercion, outright strong-arm tactics) to steal from developing
countries - often in collusion with local elites who hide
ill-gotten gains in offshore accounts.
Neil H. Jacoby, Peter Nehemkis, Richard Eells
(1977).
Bribery and Extortion in World Business: A Study of Corporate
Political Payments Abroad. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 294
p.). Corporations--Corrupt practices; Bribery; International
business enterprises.
Scott B. MacDonald & Jane E. Hughes (2006).
Separating Fools from Their Money: A History of American
Financial Scandals. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers, 255 p.). Partner, Co-Head of Research at Aladdin
Capital Management, LLC; Professor of Finance (Hult
International Business School, Boston). Commercial
crimes--United States--History; White collar crimes--United
States--History. History
of financial scandals from early days of young republic through
the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times; expose themes common
to all financial scandals.
Editors of Fortune Magazine (2008).
Scandal!: The Amazing Tales of Cheats, Crooks and Criminals, and
How They Helped Create the Modern Economy. (New York,
NY: Time Inc Home Entertainment, 240 p.). Corporations--Corrupt
practices--United States; Chief executive officers--Professional
ethics--United States; Business ethics--United States;
Commercial crimes--United States. Most colorful, consequential
scandals in business history; combination of news stories about
events as they happened, fresh takes from a contemporary
perspective; tales of dozens of outrageous swindles, how endless
cycle of fraud and reform has helped to create modern economy;
greed, cupidity, corruption, gluttony so outrageous: 1) Ivar
Krueger, Swedish match king; 2) "electrical cartel" -1961
bid-rigging; 3 Robert Vesco - 1970; 4) Wedtech; 5) Crazy Eddie;
6) Orange County bankruptcy; 7) Sothebys and Al Taubman; 8)
Enron.
Om Malik (2003).
Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist.
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 334 p.). Telecommunication--Corrupt
practices--United States; Consolidation and merger of
corporations--United States; Business failures--United States.
Jerry W. Markham (2005).
A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From
Enron to Reform. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 544 p.).
Enron Corp.--Corrupt practices; Corporations--Corrupt
practices--United States; Corporations--Accounting--United
States; Stock Market Bubble, 1995-2000; Commercial
crimes--United States. Definitive reference on major failures of American corporate
governance at start of 21st century.
David McKie (2004).
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel.
(London, UK: Atlantic Books, 208 p.). Balfour, Jabez Spencer;
Swindle, swindling; fraud.
Norman C. Miller (1965).
The Great Salad Oil Swindle. (New York, NY: Coward
McCann, 256 p.). De Angelis, Anthony, 1915- ; Swindlers and
swindling.
D. Quinn Mills (2003).
Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs,
and Ineffective Reforms. (Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall/Financial Times, 300 p.). Professor of Business
Administration (Harvard Business School). Corporations--Corrupt
practices--United States; Corporations--United
States--Accounting; Accounting--Corrupt practices--United
States; Chief executive officers--Professional ethics--United
States; Business ethics--United States.
Lawrence E. Mitchell (2001).
Corporate Irresponsibility: America's Newest Export.
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 302 p.). Professor of Law
(George Washington University). Social responsibility of
business--United States; Corporations--Corrupt practices--United
States; Corporations--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Jessica Mitford (1963).
The American Way of Death. (New York, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 333 p.). Funeral rites and ceremonies--Economic
aspects--United States. Undertakers and undertaking--United
States.
Ed. Donald Moffitt (1976).
Swindled!: Classic Business Frauds of the Seventies.
(Princeton, NJ: Dow Jones Books, 176 p.). Commercial
crimes--United States--Case studies; Fraud--United States--Case
studies; Swindlers and swindling--United States--Case studies.
Lisa H. Newton (2006).
Permission To Steal: Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal.
(Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 112 p.). Professor of Philosophy,
Director of Program in Applied Ethics (Fairfield University).
White collar crimes--United States; Corporations--Corrupt
practices--United States; Corporations--Moral and ethical
aspects; Corporate culture--Moral and ethical aspects; Business
ethics--United States.
Greg Palast (2003).
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy : An Investigative Reporter
Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and
High-Finance Fraudsters. (New York, NY: Plume, 370 p.
[rev. American ed.]). Political corruption;
Corporations--Corrupt practices.
John Perkins (2004).
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. (San Francisco, CA:
Berrett-Koehler, 264 p.). Former Chief Economist and Director of
Economics and Regional Planning, Chas. T. Main, Inc. Perkins,
John, 1945- ; United States. National Security
Agency--Biography; Chas. T. Main, Inc.; World Bank--Developing
countries; Economists--United States--Biography; Energy
consultants--United States--Biography; Intelligence
agents--United States--Biography; Corporations,
American--Foreign countries; Corporations, American--Corrupt
practices; Imperialism--History--20th century;
Imperialism--History--21st century. How US intelligence agencies,
multinationals exploit economies of Third World nations.
--- (2007).
The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men,
Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption. (New
York, NY: Dutton, 384 p.). Founder, Chairman of Dream Change.
Corporations, American--Foreign countries; Corporations,
American--Corrupt practices; Globalization--Social aspects;
Imperialism; United States--Foreign economic relations; United
States--Foreign relations--2001-. American government's wreaking
havoc around world in support of American business; secret
history behind events that have created American Empire.
Tim Phillips (2005).
Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods.
(Sterling, VA: Kogan Page, 288 p.). Managing Editor of
Performance Plus Magazine. Product counterfeiting; Licensed
products; Intellectual property; Trade regulation.
Dan Plazak (2005).
A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in
the Golden Age of American Mining. (Salt Lake City, UT:
University of Utah Press, 288 p.). Mines and mineral
resources--Valuation--United States--History--19th century;
Mines and mineral resources--Valuation--United
States--History--20th century; Fraud--United
States--History--19th century; Fraud--United
States--History--20th century; Swindlers and swindling--United
States--History--19th century; Swindlers and swindling--United
States--History--20th century. Mark Twain's definition of a
mine: "A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top".
History of mining frauds in
United States from Civil War to World War I.
John Portmann (2000).
When Bad Things Happen to Other People. (New York, NY:
Routledge, 242 p.). Professor of Religion (University of
Virginia). Suffering--Moral and ethical aspects; Pleasure--Moral
and ethical aspects; Sympathy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Richard Rayner (2002).
Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest
Confidence Artist. (New York, NY: Doubleday, 224 p.).
Hartzell, Oscar Merrill, 1876-1943; Swindlers and
swindling--United States--Biography.
Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, Robert
Tillman (2004).
Profit without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of
America. (Upper Saddle River: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 564
p. [3rd ed.]). White collar crimes--United States; Fraud--United
States.
Irwin Ross (1992).
Shady Business: Confronting Corporate Corruption. (New
York, NY: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 175 p.).
Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States.
David E. Y. Sarna; [foreword by] Andrew Malik (2010).
History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie
Madoff. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 416 p.). Serial
Entrepreneur (founded three companies, sold one, took two
public). Fraud --Case studies; Commercial crimes --Case studies;
Avarice --Case studies. How
unscrupulous entrepreneurs, lawyers, hedge fund managers, CPAs,
Texas billionaires, political fundraisers, music managers,
financial advisers, former Mossad agents fooled naïve,
sophisticated investors;
400 years of financial fraud; accounting fraud, stock option
fraud, auction rate securities, hedge fund fraud, Ponzi schemes, promotion fraud,
money laundering;
people behind financial fraud,
how they did it; why people continually fall prey to scam
artists; how to detect fraudulent schemes; how government
regulation only fixes yesterday's problems; no such thing as
free lunch, how not to become "greater fool."
Richard J. Schroth and A. Larry Elliott
(2002).
How Companies Lie: Why Enron Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg.
(New York, NY: Crown Business, 192 p.). Former Senior Partner at
Heidrick and Struggles. Consultant Corporations --Corrupt
practices; Business ethics. How to think
about, measure candor of corporations; questions to get handle
on performance reality of companies.
Kerry Segrave (1994).
Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991.
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 278 p.). Music trade--Corrupt
practices--United States. Author traces the history of payola,
its development, the attempts at regulating and legislating it,
and its practitioners.
Ed. James Surowiecki (2002).
Best Business Crime Writing of the Year. (New York, NY:
Anchor Books, 253 p.). Business Columnist (The New Yorker).
Commercial crimes--United States; White collar crimes--United
States; Journalism, Commercial--United States.
Robert H. Tillman and Michael L. Indergaard
(2005).
Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy. (New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 336 p.). Professor of
Sociology (St. John's University, NY); Associate Professor of
Sociology (St. John's University). Securities fraud--United
States; Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States; Energy
industries--Corrupt practices--United States;
Telecommunication--Corrupt practices--United States; Electronic
commerce--Corrupt practices--United States.
Peter Watson (1984).
The Caravaggio Conspiracy: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen,
Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses, and a Journalist
Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen
Paintings (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 321 p.). Art
thefts; Smuggling.
Edited with an introd. and conclusion by Alan
F. Westin (1981).
Whistle Blowing: Loyalty and Dissent in the Corporation.
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 181 p.). Whistle blowing--United
States--Congresses.
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