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...scheme was hatched in the minds of Tom Southwick ’71 and sports editor John Powers to insure Harvard struck a blow that the Elis would remember even should they emerge victorious that afternoon...
...case filled with cash. By now Parmalat's true debts were too big to hide. The beginning of the end came in 1999, when Parmalat executives transferred the activities of the three shell companies to Bonlat, the Cayman Islands firm at the center of the fake Cuban milk scheme. By 2002, Bonlat's fictitious assets had grown so enormous - up to $8 billion - that the company had to invent a Cayman Islands-based investment fund called Epicurum to take over some of its fictitious credits. Epicurum soon attracted the attention of auditors and Italy's stock market regulator in November...
...inside story of how the Coca-Cola of milk managed to go sour. A CRUDE FORGERY For well over a decade, from about 1990 to 2003, investigators say, Parmalat borrowed money from global banks and justified those loans by inflating its revenues through fictitious sales to retailers. In a scheme that authorities charge was devised and executed by Tanzi, top managers, the firm's outside lawyer, Gian Paolo Zini, and two outside auditors, Maurizio Bianchi and Lorenzo Penca, it would then cook its books some more to make the debt vanish, by transferring it to shell companies based in offshore...
...fraud was a system of double billing to Italian supermarkets and other retail customers. Simply put, by billing twice for the same shipment of merchandise, Parmalat could create the impression that its accounts receivable were much larger than they really were. One of the Parmalat executives who operated the scheme, Claudio Pessina, told Milan magistrates that as many as 300 people at Parmalat knew of it. But if anybody thought there was something wrong, they didn't say so publicly...
...version of the securitization program - by which the company's receivables were packaged as debt instruments and sold to investors - and a retainer to advise Parmalat in the acquisition of Beatrice Foods in Canada, a transaction valued at $310 million. Ferraris also laid the groundwork for a complex financing scheme through a Delaware company called Buconero, the Italian for "black hole," which Citigroup set up for Parmalat in 1999. Buconero loaned a total of $137 million to a Swiss subsidiary of Parmalat that then distributed the money to other Parmalat companies. Buconero received a guaranteed return of almost 6%, plus...