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Rebranded MCI, it emerged from bankruptcy in 2004 and the assets were bought by Verizon. Parmalat: Italy: 24 Dec 2003: Food: The company's finance directors concealed large debts. MG Rover Group: United Kingdom: 15 April 2005: Automobiles: After diminishing demand, and getting a £6.5m loan from the UK government in April 2005, the company went ...
WorldCom scandal. The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain ...
Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium-sized markets ...
The private collection of an alleged art world scammer, who long boasted about her connection to Leonardo DiCaprio, is going on sale next month in NYC to pay off some of her substantial debt.
The bankruptcy proceedings have so far recovered approximately $2.2 million, a small fraction of what was given to him by investors. “He has access to funds,” Norman Groot, a fraud-recovery ...
Theranos Inc. (/ ˈ θ ɛr. ə n. oʊ s /) was an American privately held corporation [5] that was mistakenly touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.
Imprisoned at. Federal Prison Camp, Bryan. Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. [2] The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very ...
As of December 2018, BlackRock was the world's largest investor in coal-fired power stations, holding shares worth $11 billion in 56 companies in the industry. [117] BlackRock owned more oil, gas, and thermal coal reserves than any other investment management company with total reserves amounting to 9.5 gigatonnes of CO 2 emissions or 30% of ...