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...In the early 2000s, for example, the US sent the former chief executives of WorldCom, Enron, Tyco and Adelphia to prison and secured billions of dollars in penalties from banks, mutual fund companies and...
...The news lifted related industrial stocks, with Tyco International up 1.5 per cent to $43.85. The S&P Industrials index was up 0.9 per cent to $308.52....
...This time, Saskatchewan, the Canadian province where Potash is based, fears the potential loss of C$3bn of royalties over the next decade if the deal proceeds....
...As with Bernie Ebbers, Jeffrey Skilling and Dennis Kozlowski of WorldCom, Enron and Tyco infamy. The public craves “perp walks” for those who profited questionably from the boom....
...Shareholders are taken for a far bigger ride by their C-suites than UK taxpayers are by their MPs....
...With their dependable dividends and non-discretionary wares, utilities make a natural refuge in rocky markets....
...Because of those accounting and corporate scandals – and others such as WorldCom and Tyco – Washington policymakers rushed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into law....
...This income is volatile (Ladbrokes prefers the word “unpredictable”), and Ladbrokes’ more dependable retail business remains sluggish....
...How many people remember that Dennis Kozlowski was known to the business world as “Deal-a-Day-Dennis” before the sobriquet changed to the “disgraced former Tyco chief executive”?...
...Lessons in the appreciation of taste In a room resembling a school chemistry laboratory in the upmarket Lima district of San Isidro, K.C....
...Jim Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates – the New York hedge fund famed for detecting accounting problems at Enron, WorldCom and Tyco – is launching a lobby group to represent the $1,200bn hedge fund...
...Mr Breeden commented ruefully that at least it was less expensive than the Sardinian party thrown by Dennis Kozlowski, the disgraced Tyco chief executive....
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