Remember Jeffrey Skilling? He was the man who made Enron famous for all the wrong reasons. In 2006 this former chief executive arrived at a courthouse in Texas, for sentencing. He left with 14 years to serve, which a few years later was reduced to 10 years. Skilling is now expected […]
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Do ex-offenders make good security advisers?
Who do you go to for advice on dealing with security, corruption, bribery or many other aspects of governance? To an ex-crook of course! Increasingly this is a land of opportunity for those who have defrauded, cheated, or generally done wrong. By offering to tell companies how to avoid being […]
Time for bank leaders to pay the ultimate price
By Brooke Patterson[spacer height=”20px”] “Tax evasion was the biggest mistake of my life” said Uli Hoeness, one-time president and business chairman of Bayern Munich, the club he made into one of the world’s most-successful football dynasties. Earlier this year the contrite German boss said he would accept a three-and-a-half-year […]