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Documents the career of the New York Stock Exchange chairman, from his role in helping Wall Street recover from the September 11 attacks, to the 2003 disclosure of his $140 million pay package and the lawsuit filed against him by the New York State Attorney General.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. In this book we come to see how it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech can operate. Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, so new strategies have developed to restrict...

In this first major study of white-collar crime prosecutions by local governments, the authors present exhaustive research on the procedural and legal constraints facing such local enforcement. They address the limitations of the federal government in prosecuting corporate crime and offer suggestions to facilitate more positive action at the local level.

"Enron. Tyco. Arthur Andersen. These companies have turned "corporate" into a four-letter word as headline after headline reveals shocking stories of executives stealing money from investors." "But money isn't all that corporations steal. In Corporateering, Jamie Court shows how corporations routinely and quietly rob us of our personal freedoms, including privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, and more. In fact, "corporateering"--The act...

"Accounting fraud and how it has affected business practices both in the United States and internationally has never been of greater importance than it is now. Called to Account describes fourteen financial frauds that influenced the American public accounting profession and directly led to the development of accounting standards and legislation as practiced in the United States today. This entertaining and educational look at these historic frauds...

A look at American financial markets focuses on the troubling trends and runaway greed that seem to be infecting American business.

Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. Now, one of America's most prominent corporate leaders illuminates the need for more integrity and less greed among executives. In a scathing examination of why leaders have lost their way, Leo Hindery speaks out on the role of the CEO. Does the corporate...

This book confronts, head-on, the problems that have beset American, and world, business over the last decade. The authors boldly go to the heart of the problem; to a business culture that has lost sight of fundamentals in pursuit of the illusions of rapid growth and personal gain.

Examines the collapse of the Enron Corporation and other financial scandals that arose in the wake of the market downturn of 2000. Provides context and analysis to the modern era of corporate corruption.