Thursday, March 15, 2007

Corporate crime, media guilt, and the Apple rule / Economist, 13 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4rxer
"AMERICA'S corporate crime wave is the business story that keeps on giving. Many of the alleged crimes took place years ago, but they have lost none of their ability to make headlines.
Scandal over the backdating of share options to make top managers richer has reared its head again. This time greedy executives are accused of backdating options to exploit a stock market plunge after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, when they should have had thoughts other than for their own wallets."