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A month earlier, the company's internal auditors discovered over $3.8 billion in illicit accounting entries intended to mask WorldCom's dwindling earnings, which was by itself more than the accounting fraud uncovered at Enron less than a year earlier. [111] Ultimately, WorldCom admitted to inflating its assets by $11 billion. [112]
Peregrine Systems [8] [10] corporate executives convicted of accounting fraud; Phar-Mor [8] company lied to shareholders. CEO eventually sentenced to prison for fraud and company eventually became bankrupt; Qwest Communications [10] RadioShack CEO David Edmondson lied about attaining a B.A. degree from Pacific Coast Baptist College in California
Wells Fargo's sales culture and cross-selling strategy, and their impact on customers, were documented by the Wall Street Journal as early as 2011. [5] In 2013, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed intense pressure on bank managers and individual bankers to produce sales against extremely aggressive and even mathematically impossible [7] quotas. [8]
Austal USA, an Alabama-based shipbuilder that makes vessels for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud investigation, the U.S ...
Dozens of people have been arrested or charged in the U.S. in connection with money laundering involving TD in recent years. In the latest case, Leonardo Ayala, 24, who worked at a TD Bank outlet ...
GE has been targeted with a report by the forensic accountant who exposed the Bernie Madoff scheme. Harry Markopolos says that GE's accounting is hiding a mountain of losses, which GE denies.
S. SafeMoon; Salad oil scandal; Sampoong Department Store collapse; Saradha Group financial scandal; Robert Schuyler; ScotiaMocatta; Seongsu Bridge disaster
Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of 4 counts of felony fraud in January 2022 – three counts of wire fraud, and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for misleading investors on the biotech company Theranos, a diagnostics company claiming to be able to perform multianalyte clinical chemistry using unsound liquid-handling tech. Company results were ...