Biggest Corporate Scandals
Biggest Corporate Scandals is a structured business dataset with 18 entries. Its fields include Company, Year Exposed, Key Figure. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 18 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Company, Year Exposed, Key Figure, Country, Fraud Size (USD B), and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year Exposed span
- 2001 to 2022
- Across 18 preview rows
- Fraud Size (USD B) range
- 0.3 to 74
- Across 18 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Company, Year Exposed, and Key Figure across business entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 18 downloadable records
Company↕ | Year Exposed↕ | Key Figure↕ | Country↕ | Fraud Size (USD B)↕ | What Happened↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enron | 2001 | Jeffrey Skilling | United States | 74 | Used SPEs to hide debt and inflate profits, CEO got 24 years, destroyed Arthur Andersen |
Theranos | 2015 | Elizabeth Holmes | United States | 9 | Fake blood testing tech, WSJ expose, Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison |
FTX | 2022 | Sam Bankman-Fried | Bahamas | 8 | Diverted customer funds to Alameda, collapsed in days, SBF got 25 years |
Wirecard | 2020 | Markus Braun | Germany | 2 | Fabricated 1.9 billion euros in cash, Jan Marsalek fled, Germany's largest fraud |
WorldCom | 2002 | Bernard Ebbers | United States | 11 | Capitalized expenses to inflate earnings, Ebbers got 25 years, died in prison |
Bernard Madoff Securities | 2008 | Bernie Madoff | United States | 65 | Largest Ponzi scheme in history, ran for decades, Madoff got 150 years |
Tyco International | 2002 | Dennis Kozlowski | United States | 0.6 | CEO stole 600 million dollars, infamous 2 million dollar Sardinia birthday party on shareholder dime |
Volkswagen Dieselgate | 2015 | Martin Winterkorn | Germany | 33 | Defeat devices cheated emissions tests on 11 million diesels, 33 billion in fines |
WeWork | 2019 | Adam Neumann | United States | 47 | S-1 exposed self-dealing and losses, IPO pulled, valuation crashed from 47B to 8B |
1MDB | 2015 | Jho Low | Malaysia | 4.5 | Malaysian sovereign wealth fund looted, Goldman Sachs paid 3.9 billion, PM Najib jailed |
Adelphia Communications | 2002 | John Rigas | United States | 2.3 | Rigas family hid 2.3 billion in debt, used company as personal piggy bank |
HealthSouth | 2003 | Richard Scrushy | United States | 2.7 | Earnings inflated by 2.7 billion, Scrushy acquitted in criminal trial, later jailed for bribery |
Parmalat | 2003 | Calisto Tanzi | Italy | 18 | Italian dairy giant hid 14 billion euro hole, Bank of America account statement was forged |
Olympus Corporation | 2011 | Tsuyoshi Kikukawa | Japan | 1.7 | Hid losses for 13 years via tobashi schemes, exposed by British CEO Michael Woodford |
Lehman Brothers Repo 105 | 2010 | Dick Fuld | United States | 50 | Used Repo 105 accounting trick to temporarily move 50 billion off balance sheet each quarter |
Nikola Motors | 2020 | Trevor Milton | United States | 30 | Hindenburg revealed truck rolling downhill in promo video, Milton got 4 years |
Luckin Coffee | 2020 | Jenny Qian | China | 0.3 | Fabricated 310 million dollars in sales, delisted from Nasdaq |
Satyam Computer Services | 2009 | Ramalinga Raju | India | 1.5 | Chairman confessed to inflating cash balance by 1 billion, India's largest fraud |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Biggest Corporate Scandals organized?
The table starts in the source data's default order. You can sort and filter the loaded rows by the displayed fields.
How much data is available on this page?
This dataset contains 18 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
Can I download the complete dataset?
Yes. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 18 rows. Before republishing the data, review the source and any usage terms listed on this page; dtbse does not replace the original source's licensing terms.
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