List of corporate scandals

• 2006 HP Spying Scandal
• 2008 Siemens Scandal, involving cases of bribery on behalf of Siemens towards the Greek Government
• American Airlines, deferred maintenance of aircraft
• Adelphia officers trial and prison sentence
• AOL Time Warner
• Arthur Andersen
• BAE Systems bribery scandal related to the Al Yamamah contracts with Saudi Arabia.
• Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal
• Barings Bank, derivatives trading scandal
• Bayer, links to Josef Mengele's Auschwitz human experiments, HIV-tainted blood products, anti-Semitism, racism
• Bre-X gold mining and stock scandal
• Bristol-Myers Squibb accounting scandal
• Clearstream, which has been qualified as "the greatest financial scandal in Luxembourg" (Clearstream is a clearing house, i.e. sort of a "bank of banks", used to centralize credit & debit between banks and other financial organizations). As of 2006, it hasn't been resolved yet.
• Chiquita Brands International Financing terrorist organizations
• CMS Energy
• Compass Group, bribed the United Nations in order to win business.
• Corrib gas controversy Kilcommon, Erris, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
• Deutsche Bank, spying scandal
• Duke Energy
• Dynegy
• El Paso Corp.
• Enron accounting fraud, involving Arthur Andersen
• Exxon overreporting of oil reserves
• Fannie Mae underreporting of profit
• Firestone Tire and Rubber Company for use of child labor
• FlowTex, the largest corporate scandal in German history
• Ford Pinto scandal
• Global Crossing
• Guinness affair
• Hafskip's collapse
• Halliburton overcharging government contracts
• Harken Energy Scandal
• HealthSouth reporting exaggerated earnings
• Homestore.com
• IG Farben, participation in the Holocaust
• Kerr-McGee, the Karen Silkwood case
• Kinney National Company financial scandal
• Kmart
• Krupp, participation in arming Nazi Germany and in the Holocaust
• Lernout & Hauspie accounting fraud
• Lockheed bribery scandal in Germany, Japan, and Netherlands
• Merck Medicaid fraud investigation^[4]
• MG Rover Group accounts and pensions scandal
• Mirant
• Morrison-Knudsen scandal. Led to William Agee's ouster
• Nicor Energy
• Nortel executives overstate post-dot-com recovery earnings in order to earn bonuses^[2]
• One.Tel collapse
• Options backdating involving over 100 companies
• Parmalat accounting scandal & mutual fund fraud
• Peregrine Systems corporate executives convicted of accounting fraud
• Phar-Mor company lied to shareholders. CEO eventually sentenced to prison for fraud and company eventually became bankrupt.
• Qwest Communications
• RadioShack CEO David Edmondson lied about attaining a B.A. degree from Pacific Coast Baptist College in California
• Refco, Inc. commodities & futures scandal involving hidden debts involving underwritting firms Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp.
• Reliant Energy
• Rite Aid accounting fraud
• Royal Dutch Shell overstated its oil reserves twice, it downgraded 3,900,000,000 barrels (620,000,000 m³), or about 20 percent of its total holdings.
• Salad oil scandal, where millions in loans were obtained on largely nonexistent inventories of salad oil
• Société Générale, derivatives trading scandal causing multi-billion euro losses.
• Southwest Airlines, violations of safety regulations.
• Tyco Internationalexecutive theft and prison sentence
• Union Carbide, the Bhopal disaster.
• ValuJet Airlines, loading live oxygen generators into cargo hold of passenger jet causing fatal crash
• WorldCom / MCI accounting scandals
• Xerox alleged accounting irregularities involving auditor KPMG, causing restatement of financial results for the years 1997 through 2000 and fines for both companies.^[2]
• David Wittig "looting" scandals
• Northern Rock bank - subprime mortgage crisis and nationalisation, United Kingdom
• Satyam Computers, India
• S-Chips Scandals, Singapore