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Skase absconded to the Spanish resort island of Majorca. Spain refused extradition for 10 years during which time Skase became a citizen of Dominica. Lincoln Savings and Loan Association: United States: 1989: Banking: Financial institution that went bust following the Keating Five scandal. Polly Peck: United Kingdom: 30 Oct 1990: Electronics ...
The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine. Glaxo's $3 billion settlement included the largest civil False Claims Act settlement on record, [1] and Pfizer’s $2.3 billion ($3.5 billion in 2022) settlement including a record-breaking $1.3 billion criminal fine. [2]
Not all accounting scandals are caused by those at the top. In fact, in 2015, 33% of all business bankruptcies were caused by employee theft. [16] Often middle managers and employees are pressured to or willingly alter financial statements due to their debts or the possibility of personal benefit over that of the company, respectively.
Given the pandemic and the election, you would be forgiven for forgetting some of the juiciest scandals of 2020. We’re here to help.
More than 124,000 Uber documents covering the five-year period from 2012 to 2017 when Uber was run by its co-founder Travis Kalanick were leaked by Mark MacGann, a lobbyist who "led Uber's efforts to win over governments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa", [5] to The Guardian newspaper and first printed on 10 July 2022 by its Sunday ...
The list is organized by office. The criminal statute(s) under which the conviction(s) were obtained are noted, as are the names of notable investigations, scandals, or litigation, if applicable. The year of conviction is included (if the official was convicted multiple times due to retrials, only the year of the first conviction is included).
Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesA Bernie Madoff Halloween mask. Putting together any type of Top 10 list is a dicey business. Once you get past the usual subjects, the criteria for the rest of ...
After scandals in Australia and China this year, PwC has lost business in the Asia-pacific region. On Monday, the Big Four consulting firm reported a 12.7% decline in net income in the region for ...