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...actual birth. In 1987, with bells and whistles, the Ministry of Economy announced the sorpasso: Italy’s GDP had overtaken Britain’s.Since then, however, it has all been downhill. Italian financial scandals, such as the implosion of the dairy colossus Parmalat have made Enron and WorldCom look like sound companies. Whilst American CEOs appear with aplomb in front of a myriad of courts, dubious Italian executives choose instead to run for office thanks to Berlusconi’s help. Not only did the Prime Minister push a law forcing voters to cast ballots for parties instead...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, | Title: Italians Do It Better | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP by stating that the trial's jury was wrongly told it could convict the firm for shredding documents during the government's investigation of Enron even if Andersen employees believed they were not breaking the law. And Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom, convicted last year on fraud charges in the financial collapse of the telecommunications company, is basing his appeal on similar jury instructions. In his trial, Ebbers testified he didn't know fraud was taking place. The jury was told he could be found guilty if he was suspicious of fraud but consciously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Quattrone Means for Enron | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...some extent, that public hostility is well deserved. The bankruptcies of Enron and WorldCom in the U.S. and Parmalat in Italy have focused attention on corporate sleaze on both sides of the Atlantic. Revelations about how Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff allegedly bought influence in Congress have made a mockery of claims to clean government. The U.N. is struggling to recover from its own high-level corruption scandal relating to the oil-for-food program in prewar Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy: Losing Our Faith | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

CYNTHIA COOPER 2002 Former WorldCom auditor (one of three "whistleblowers" TIME honored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Past Honorees Give Their Picks for This Year | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...Cynthia Cooper, the Worldcom whistleblower who was part of a Person of the Year trio in 2003, was inclined to find the heroes of the Katrina story: ?The first responders, the victims themselves and the media without whom America would not have learned of their plight.? And, she said, General Russel Honore, who took charge of the rescue effort and restored hope to the people of the Gulf Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should be Person of the Year? | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

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