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| x Kenneth Lay |
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Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse...
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Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling (born November 25, 1953) is the former president of Enron Corporation. In 2006 he was convicted of multiple federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse, and is currently serving a 24-year, 4-month...
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| x Kobi Alexander |
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Jacob "Kobi" Alexander is the founder and the former CEO of New York-based Comverse Technology. In 2006, he was charged with multiple counts of fraud and related offenses pertaining to irregularities in trading of Comverse stock; he subsequently...
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| x William Aramony |
William Aramony was CEO of United Way of America for more than twenty years and helped build the organization into one of the top four non-profits in the United States. He resigned in 1992 amid allegations of financial mismanagement and criminal...
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| x Russell Cline |
Russell Warren Brent Cline (born about 1965) founded Orion International in 1998, a foreign currency trading firm based in Portland, Oregon. In 2003 he was charged in federal court with running a classic Ponzi scheme, pleading guilty he is currently...
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| x Robert Courtney |
Robert Ray Courtney (born 1952 in Hays, Kansas) is a former pharmacist who owned and operated the Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002 he was convicted of pharmaceutical fraud and sentenced to federal prison.
In 1990...
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| x Bernard Ebbers |
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Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941, Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company.
In 2005, he was convicted of fraud...
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| x Phillip E. Hill, Sr. |
Phillip E. Hill, Sr. (born 1956) was the ringleader of the largest mortgage fraud scheme ever prosecuted in the State of Georgia. Hill was found guilty of 168 counts of fraud and money laundering on March 14, 2007 in the Northern District of Georgia...
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| x Charles Keating, Jr. |
Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (born December 4, 1923) is an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, and financier, most known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.
Keating was a champion swimmer for the...
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| x Dennis Kozlowski |
Leo Dennis Kozlowski (born November 16, 1946, Newark, New Jersey) is a former CEO of Tyco International, convicted in 2005 of crimes related to his receipt of $81 million in purportedly unauthorized bonuses, the purchase of art for $14.725 million...
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| x Martha Stewart |
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Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra; August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, television host, author and magazine publisher. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures,...
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| x Patrick Naughton |
Patrick Naughton (born in 1965) is an American software developer, best known as being one of the original creators of the Java programming language.
As a Sun engineer, Patrick Naughton had become increasingly frustrated with the state of Sun's C++...
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| x Barry Minkow |
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Barry Minkow (born March 17, 1967) is an American religious leader and ex-convict.
As a young teenager Minkow was a fraudulent entrepreneur who managed to present the front of a successful businessman for a number of years during the 1980s. His...
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| x Agha Hasan Abedi |
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Agha Hasan Abedi also affectionately known as Agha Sahab (May 14, 1922, Lucknow, India - August 5, 1995, Karachi, Pakistan) was a banker and philanthropist who founded the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in 1972. The Bank of Credit...
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| x John Rigas |
John J. Rigas (born November 14, 1924 in Wellsville, New York) is one of the founders of Adelphia Communications Corporation, which at its peak was one of the largest cable companies in the United States. He was also the majority owner of the...
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