Corporate scandal
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A corporate scandal is a scandal involving allegations of unethical behavior on the part of a company. A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort. A wave of such scandals swept United States companies in 2002 (accounting scandals of 2002).
List of corporate scandals
- Adelphia scandal
- Bre-X scandal
- Clearstream, which has been qualified as "the greatest financial scandal in Luxembourg" (Clearstream is a clearing house, i.e. sort of a "bank of banks", used to centralize credit & debit between banks and other financial organizations). As of 2006, it hasn't been resolved yet.
- Compass Group, bribed the United Nations in order to win business.
- Enron accounting fraud, involving Arthur Andersen
- Exxon overreporting of oil reserves
- Fannie Mae underreporting of profit
- Ford Pinto scandal
- Guinness affair
- Hafskip's collapse
- Halliburton overcharging government contracts
- Harken Energy Scandal
- Lernout & Hauspie accounting fraud
- One.Tel collapse
- Parmalat accounting scandal & mutual fund fraud
- Phar Mor company lied to shareholders. CEO eventually sentenced to prison for fraud and company eventually became bankrupt.
- RadioShack CEO David Edmondson lied about attaining a B.A. degree from Pacific Coast Baptist College in California
- Refco, Inc. commodities & futures scandal involving hidden debts involving underwritting firms Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp.
- Royal Dutch Shell overstated its oil reserves twice,it downgraded 3.9 billion barrels, or about 20 percent of its total holdings.
- Tyco International
- Worldcom scandal
Mutual funds
Mutual funds scandals- Epicurum fund/Parmalat
- Mutual-fund scandal (2003)
Insurance
See also
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