The Enron Scandal Explained
How Enron went from Fortune’s most innovative company to bankruptcy in 2001: the accounting tricks, the hidden debt, the collapse and the trials that followed.
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Scandals & Crimes
Political, corporate, sporting and criminal scandals, and how they unfolded.
The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
How eight Chicago White Sox players conspired with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series, why they were acquitted and still banned from baseball for life.
The 1982 Tylenol Murders
In 1982, seven people near Chicago died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol. What happened, how Johnson & Johnson responded and why the case remains unsolved.
Watergate: A Clear Timeline
A timeline of the Watergate scandal, from the 1972 break-in to the White House tapes, the Saturday Night Massacre and President Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
The Teapot Dome Scandal
How secret oil leases and hidden payments in the Harding administration became the Teapot Dome scandal, and how a cabinet secretary ended up in prison.
The Dreyfus Affair
How Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, how forged evidence and antisemitism kept him imprisoned and how he was finally cleared.