#Corporate-Fraud
Events indexed under #Corporate-Fraud — 45 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case
3 src Donald Trump · Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-31 | Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-15 | Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged
3 src Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives
3 src Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
3 src Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-31 | Wells Fargo Revises Fake Account Count to 3.5 Million, Up 67%
3 src Wells Fargo · Timothy Sloan | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach
3 src John Gamble · Joseph Loughran · Rodolfo Ploder · Equifax · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-31 | V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors
5 src SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices
4 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-27 | Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation
3 src John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-08 | Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-06 | ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees
4 src ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results
3 src Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-29 | Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations
4 src Eric Schneiderman · Maura Healey · Claude Walker · ExxonMobil · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network
4 src Valeant Pharmaceuticals · J. Michael Pearson · Philidor Rx Services · William Ackman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation
3 src John Carreyrou · Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-16 | InsideClimate News Launches
4 src InsideClimate News · ExxonMobil · Los Angeles Times · Columbia University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-04-27 | Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Federal Crackdown on For-Profit College Fraud
4 src Corinthian Colleges · U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-23 | Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins
3 src Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf · Scott Reckard (LA Times Reporter) | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Wells Fargo Employees Begin Creating 3.5 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated
3 src Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024)
3 src Corinthian Colleges · ITT Tech · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud
3 src Dennis Kozlowski · Mark Swartz · Mark Belnick | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-30 | Sarbanes-Oxley Act Signed Into Law as Brief Reform Moment
3 src George W. Bush · Paul Sarbanes · Michael Oxley | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-21 | WorldCom Files for Bankruptcy with $107 Billion in Assets
3 src Bernard Ebbers · WorldCom · Scott Sullivan | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Cynthia Cooper · Scott Sullivan · WorldCom | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-09 | Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents
3 src Arthur Andersen · Joseph Berardino · David Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-02 | Enron Bankruptcy After Energy Task Force Meetings
3 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-22 | SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-16 | Enron Reports $618 Million Loss and Reveals CFO Partnership Schemes
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow | confirmed | |
| 1868-03-04 | Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock
4 src Jay Gould · James Fisk · Daniel Drew · Cornelius Vanderbilt · +3 | confirmed |