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He agreed to forfeit $3.18 million in accounting fees and withdrawals from his account with Madoff. His involvement makes the Madoff scheme not only the largest Ponzi scheme ever uncovered, but the largest accounting fraud in world history. [127] The $64.8 billion claimed to be in Madoff accounts dwarfed the $11 billion fraud at WorldCom.
A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved some type of false or inappropriate accounting (see list at accounting scandals).
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Accounting scandals; Adani Group; Adelphia Communications Corporation; Air Mail scandal; Alameda Research; Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation; Alberta Motor Association; Aluminium price-fixing conspiracy; Anubhav Plantations; AOL search log release; Armley asbestos disaster; Atlantic Acceptance Corporation; Atom Asset Exchange
Enron logo. The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, leading to its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, then one of the five largest in the world, dissolving.
Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers).
S. Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank; 1999–2002 sale of United Kingdom gold reserves; Sanchayita chit fund scam; Saradha Group financial scandal; Save the Kids token
Jeffrey Skilling is an American former CEO of Enron Corporation, convicted of securities fraud (and other crimes) for his part in the 2001 Enron scandal, a $63.4 billion bankruptcy ($109.1 billion today). [53]