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Search results for "corporate scandal" ...
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Suspicions and Spies in Silicon Valley
This investigation details the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal. It discusses how the obsession of HP chairman Patricia Dunn to root out the source of press leaks from the boardroom led to covert tracking of directors' phone records. That surveillance eventually led to Dunn's resignation and indictment by the state of California.
Tags: technology; computers; corporate intelligence; business; corporate ethics; SEC; FCC; FTC; Justice Department
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Perfect Payday
A series of stories exposing a huge scandal in corporate America where stock option grants are manipulated to enrich company insiders.
Tags: stock; option; grant; scandal; company insider; SEC; Wall Street; K Street
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End of the Line: The Rise and Fall of AT&T
This investigation shows how mismanagement led to the collapse of AT&T. The author conducted more than 100 interviews and gathered multiple perspectives and opinions about the company's downfall. This book is an attempt to reconcile all of the different stories.
Tags: business; AT&T; corporate fraud; corporate scandal; Mike Armstrong
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Flying Gas Prices: The Shell Game
This investigation uncovered an oil company scandal: Shell Oil Company was planning to close a refinery, even though it was making big profits. The investigation found that, even though Shell Oil claimed the oil field was tapped out, the real motivation for the closure was to fix oil prices.
Tags: oil; petroleum; whistleblower; gas; corporate documents; business reporting; monopoly
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Big Green
This investigation details a string of startling practices at The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental group. The Conservancy's advisory board included senior officials from corporations that were heavy polluters and which had paid millions in environmental fines. Even worse, the Conservancy repeatedly bought scenic properties and resold them to its trustees at greatly reduced prices.
Tags: environment; nonprofits; corporate scandal
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The Publishers' Six Big Lies: A federal trial shows how San Francisco's daily newspapers have misled the public for decades.
This story explains and outlines six lies relating to San Francisco's daily newspapers. For example, "Lie #1: Hearst's editorial decisions are not influenced by corporate business interests. Lie #2: White's attempt to trade editorial support for the mayor's blessing of the Chron sale was unknown to Hearst higher-ups and a violation of Hearst policy. Lie #3: "The Examiner" is so unprofitable that it has to be shut down."
Tags: publishers; publishing company; Hearst; San Francisco; California; newspapers; scandal; misleading; public; editorial support; lies; journalism; influence
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Corporate Collapse
The Times reports on corporate scandals surrounding energy company Enron, audit firm Arthur Andersen and telecom giant WorldCom. According to the contest entry summary: "In each case, months after publication and following in-depth investigation by authorities, the information in these stories would become the accepted version of the facts. In essence, these stories took the most important -- and most confusing -- events of the past year and quickly ascertained the truth of what had been happening inside the thick walls of a series of corporations."
Tags: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); stocks and bonds; Wall Street conflicts of interest; bankruptcy; special purpose entities; corruption; corporations; accounting; finances
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The PG&E Scandal
The San Francisco Bay Guardian reveals "how Pacific Gas and Electric Company cheats San Francisco out of millions of dollars a year -- with the active help of the Mayor's Office." The paper also explains "how PG&E let its local infrastructure crumble -- while it sucked tens of millions of dollars out of town to build a global empire" and "how PG&E has built a long record as a corporate criminal."
Tags: San Francisco; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; money; corporate crime; Mayor; millions
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Can ONEOK, ONG escape Westar albatross?; Westar culture: Beer, braggadocio and blind loyalty
Wylie investigates how the acquisition of a 45 percent interest in ONEOK, local natural gas supplier, by Westar Energy, has affected its customers and employees. According to the contest entry questionnaire: "The stories revealed the incredible degree of arrogance displayed by top company officials, their financial shenanigans, their utter contempt for their customers and employees, and their lavish lifestyles."
Tags: business; corporate scandals; Kansas Corporation Commission; SEC; Western Resources
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Alliance Capital's Bad Bets
Alliance Capital Management, the world's eighth-largest asset management firm, lost more than $8 billion of its customers' money by investing in five of the biggest corporate train wrecks of the past two years -- Dynergy, Enron, Qwest, Tyco International, and WorldCom -- in the vain hope that the stocks of those scandal-plagued companies would recover.
Tags: Alliance Capital Management; asset management; Dynergy; Enron; Qwest; Tyco International; WorldCom; stock; corporations