COOKING THE BOOKS
MULTIPLE MALFEASANCES
BY TYCOONS, Enron not aloneENRON WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE, VISIBLE ROOK. HOAX. CHEAT. EVER but on this page
OTHER ENRONS , Status of A FEW OTHER High-Profile Corporate SWINDLES all TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
By The Associated Press 2006
Enron precipitated the American Recession but those boys, Skilling and Lay got theirs...
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Jeffrey_Skilling ) but let's look at some of the other high-profile corporate scandals of recent years and the status of legal action in each.CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON Former CSFB investment banking star Frank
Quattrone, who made a fortune taking Internet companies public during
the dot-com stock boom, was convicted in May 2004 on federal charges of
obstruction of justice, after his first trial ended in a hung jury. The
2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in March,
granting Quattrone a new trial. The appeals court said the jury
instructions in Quattrone's trial were erroneous. Google him, see what happened.
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC. _ Former Qwest CEO Joseph
Nacchio was indicted last December on 42 federal charges of insider
trading accusing him of illegally selling $101 million in stock. In July
2005, Robin Szeliga, former CFO, pleaded guilty to one criminal count of
insider trading in a scandal that forced the telephone company to erase
billions of dollars in revenue. On March 3, former Qwest executive Marc
B. Weisberg was fined $250,000 and sentenced to 60 days of home
detention after pleading guilty to wire fraud.Qwest agreed last year to pay $250 million to settle SEC charges of
fraud in a deal that did not include individuals. THEN WHO? GOOGLE IT.
ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS CORP. _ Michael Rigas, a son of the founder of
Adelphia Communications Corp., pleaded guilty last November to a charge
of making a false entry in a financial record, eliminating the need for
his retrial on securities fraud and bank fraud charges in a scandal that
forced the cable giant into bankruptcy. He was sentenced to 10 months of
home confinement. John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted in
federal court last year of conspiracy, bank fraud and securities fraud.
Last June, John Rigas was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Timothy
Rigas to 20 years. They are free pending appeal. A fourth executive,
Michael Mulcahey, was found not guilty of conspiracy and securities
fraud. Last October, John and Timothy were indicted in Philadelphia on
charges they and other family members didn't pay $300 million in taxes.WORLDCOM INC. _ Bernard Ebbers, who as CEO of WorldCom oversaw the
largest corporate fraud in U.S. history, was sentenced last July to 25
years in prison. The sentence was handed down in U.S. District Court in
Manhattan three years after WorldCom collapsed in an $11 billion
accounting fraud. A judge ruled last September that Ebbers can stay out
of prison while he appeals his conviction.So what happened? GOOGLE HIM.
HEALTHSOUTH CORP. _ Former CEO Richard Scrushy was acquitted last June
on all 36 federal counts of conspiracy, false reporting, fraud and money
laundering in an alleged $2.7 billion earnings overstatement at the
rehabilitation and medical services chain over seven years beginning in
1996. He blamed the fraud on 15 former HealthSouth executives who
pleaded guilty. Hannibal "Sonny" Crumpler, a former HealthSouth
executive, the second person to stand trial in the fraud, was convicted
last November of conspiracy and lying to auditors for his role in the
fraud. Last December, Bill Owens, a one-time HealthSouth chief financial
officer, was sentenced to five years in prison. Owens was a main
government witness in the failed prosecution of Scrushy. Did Heaven punish Scrushy?
TYCO INTERNATIONAL LTD. _ Former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark H.
Swartz were convicted in a New York state court last June on 22 of 23
counts of grand larceny, conspiracy, securities fraud and falsifying
business records. Prosecutors accused the two of conspiring to defraud
Tyco of millions of dollars to fund extravagant lifestyles. The two were
sentenced last September to eight and one-third to 25 years in prison. A
judge refused to release Kozlowski and Swartz on bail while they appeal
their convictions.MARTHA STEWART: A federal appeals court on Jan. 6 upheld the convictions
of Martha Stewart and her one-time broker, Peter Bacanovic. The founder
of the homemaking empire was released in March 2005 after serving five
months in prison, and finished serving an additional five months and
three weeks of home confinement at the end of August. She was convicted
in federal court in 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and
making false statements related to a personal sale of ImClone Systems
Inc. stock. Bacanovic, her former broker at Merrill Lynch, served a
five-month sentence.CENDANT CORP.: Former Cendant Corp. Vice Chairman E. Kirk Shelton was
convicted in federal court in January 2005 of conspiracy and securities,
wire and mail fraud. He was sentenced last August to 10 years in prison
and ordered to pay full restitution for his role in an accounting
scandal that cost investors and the company more than $3 billion.
Shelton was ordered to pay $3.27 billion to Cendant. Shelton stood trial
with former Cendant Chairman Walter Forbes, whose case ended in a
mistrial. Forbes was retried last October and on February 10 a federal
judge declared a mistrial. Prosecutors plan to try Forbes for a third
time. Shelton is free pending his appeal.FANNIE MAE: Federal regulators found in an investigation that the
mortgage finance giant, which is the second-largest U.S. financial
institution, manipulated accounting so executives could collect millions
in bonuses from 1998 to 2004. The government-sponsored company was fined
$400 million on May 23 in a settlement with the Office of Federal
Housing Enterprise Oversight and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fannie Mae's anticipated restatement of earnings later this year is
expected to total some $11 billion. A criminal investigation by the
Justice Department continues.A joint RECIPE BOOK "COOKING THE BOOKS" should be out this Autumn.
But so far, no prison has a printing press.
ODE to the ARTFUL DODGERS
Lay and Skilling doctored a call
little knowing 'twould be the death of us all.
Capitalist system would falter then stall.
Lay and Skilling cast a planet-wide pall.Quattrone ran elegant Credit Suisse
was IPO master, a very big cheese.
He oversold OFFERINGS and (shhhh) split the pie
with insiders who were the pomme of his eye.Nacchio at Qwest Com sold a hundred million in AIR
Bilking investors! But what is even less fair--
is that one Qwest Exec got sixty days home detention
for crimes of abetting too horrid to mention!Adelphia Execs were cooking the book..
Rigas and sons, hid 2 billion from IRS look,
ten months home detention a slap on the hands
try that fraud at home, you'll see where you lands!Ebbers at World Com has Wall Street quite AWED.
He managed to pull off ELEVEN BIL FRAUD
25 yrs lock up he now is appealing.
while stock brokers continue their lousy stock dealing!HealthSouth's HMO, we all know they steal!
Execs under table pigged a 3 billion buck MEAL.
CEO Scrushy accused VPs tat for tit
15 execs under him instead took the hit!Two Tyco execs defrauded the firm
Lived high on the hog, which TYCO did LEARN!
The cost of high living for two spendthrift boys?
25 years hard labor and no more costly toys.Cendant Corp CEO pretended such class.
But just see what happens kicking consumer in ASS
Three billion bucks later, the feds found a piece missing.
Ten years of cellmates' bums they'll be kissing.Fannie Mae was privatized, to be run by a bank
11 bill execs took -- caused it to tank!
4 in 5 home owners are financed by FANNIE MAE
in a TREND STARTED BY messers SKILLING AND LAY!These execs are all currently out on appeal.
but what makes us sorrow, what makes us REEL--
Martha sold stock on a chum's savvy tip!
This gal got five months of warden's foul lip!Stewart stole nothing from no one.
Her life's sharing knowledge!
Who'd fault her for selling?
Guy who tipped her'd been to COLLEGE!And all of the others, that legion of CREEPS
An MBA is a license to steal,
Had all been to Harvard the VIPS and the VEEPS
In those Ivy halls they learned to juggle numbers,
they'd learned to inflate and with fake debt encumber.
Defraud and bankrupt --the whole greedy deal.
Avoid Ivy league colleges or else I'm telling you,
one of your kids could pull similar felony too.
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