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Based on the first-person book by Brian Cruver, Anatomy of Greed, The Crooked E television movie chronicles the rise and fall of the Houston-based Enron Corporation. The film offers the perspective of Cruver, played by Christian Kane, depicted as a brilliant but naïve young salesman who was seduced by the company's "get rich quick" mantra.
Since that date, the business has been known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland and as Primark elsewhere. [4] [16] In 2005, Primark bought UK retailer Littlewoods's retail shops for £409 million, retaining 40 of the 119 shops and selling the rest. [17] In May 2006, the first Primark shop in mainland Europe opened in Madrid, Spain. In ...
This is the first Michael hears of the problem, and over the course of the film he uncovers a major corruption scandal, whereby payoffs and bribes diverted $20 billion of the funds away from food and into the hands of companies, banks, officials of various governments, and officials of the UN itself, possibly including Pasha, so that Hussein ...
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) is an independent feature-length documentary film and (2007) book that chronicles abusive practices in the credit card industry. Written and directed by James Scurlock, the film and book use interviews with creditors, debtors, academics, and others to illustrate its ...
Shattered Glass is a 2003 biographical drama film about journalist Stephen Glass and his scandal at The New Republic.Written and directed by Billy Ray in his feature directorial debut, the film is based on a 1998 Vanity Fair article of the same name by H. G. Bissinger [4] and chronicles Glass' fall from grace when his stories were discovered to be fabricated.
Glenn Kenny from The New York Times deviated from the mainstream view, saying the film "feels like the vexed progeny of an elevator pitch and an ethics advice column". He concluded with sharp criticism for Hersh, stating he portrayed the characters Josh and Aaron, "as glib and shallow bourgeois brats he clearly had conceived them as all along ...
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) said he has “upheld the highest ethical standards” after a report claimed the Long Island congressman hired an alleged mistress to work in his district office.
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 financial crisis.Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, [3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption", [4] amongst them conflicts of interest of academic research, which led to improved ...