Madoff had not been investing the money he was trusted with but he was using it to pay returns to other investors. Millions of people and thousands of hedge funds around the globe were affected when Madoff's Ponzi scheme was disclosed. It is hard to Continue Reading...
Olympus Scandal The Olympus corporate governance and accounting scandal is and should be considered one of the largest business scandals in the history of business and the modern world. It is right up there with Enron (and in some ways worse) than t Continue Reading...
Labeling white collar crime is a mystery. A shared misapprehension of white collar crime is that, like pornography, it is hard to describe, however a lot of people would recognize it when they understood it. The only thing concerning white collar cr Continue Reading...
Corporate Accountability The corporate scandals of the last fifteen years have brought the issue of corporate accountability to new light, adopting at times a center-stage discussion. When the Bernie Madoff scandal broke, many professionals turned Continue Reading...
Skilling v. USA The seminal court case that was Skilling v. The United States was an affirmation and confirmation that Jeffrey Skilling was rightly convicted and that he was not being railroaded. Much of this report will focus on the case itself but Continue Reading...
