It would be an understatement to say the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had a rough appointment to the Court. As a nominee, Kavanaugh was embattled by several allegations of sexual misconduct and...
In early 1998, Cendant, a travel and real estate company, lost $14 million in stock prices in a single day. Shares tumbled from $41 per share to almost $12. Stockholders were outraged, and the public was...
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has appealed to not be indicted by US attorney Jessie Liu’s recommendation. However, the Justice Department has dismissed his appeal, and it now appears that McCabe...
In yet another stunning moment of the ongoing Brexit saga, the highest Scottish civil court has found Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen to shut down, or prorogue, Parliament to be unlawful. This comes after the...
Martin Shkreli is in jail for fraud, but that hasn’t stopped him from claiming that he was the victim of fraud. He is suing one of the witnesses against him in his 2017 trial and the son of a former investor. Shkreli’s...
In April of 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig triggered one of the largest environmental disasters to ever take place began. The BP-owned Macondo Prospect was the site of the incident, which saw an explosion in...
One of the biggest suits in class action history was a case that named four massive tobacco companies as defendants to cover smoking-related illness medical costs. This suit, which finished in 1998, resulted in one of...
Formed in 1985, Enron was an energy company that was based in Houston, Texas. Founder Kenneth Lay was able to use accounting loopholes, financial mis-reporting and special purpose entities to hide billions of dollars in...
Everyone wants to be beautiful. Societal ideas about beauty in the West have long revolved around looking thin and have linked thinness with elegance, health and happiness. If you think these connections are strong in...
Volkswagen has had something of a rough go of it over the last few years, though they’ve got no one but themselves to blame. The German automaker came under fire in 2016 due to the company’s apparent fraud committed to...
When Enron folded due to its 2001 scandal, it was the biggest bankruptcy in American history. Few would have predicted that only a few years later, in 2003, WorldCom would file bankruptcy over a nearly identical scandal...
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