The industrial giant Caterpillar hired William Barr and other lawyers to defuse a federal criminal investigation of alleged tax dodges.
Category: Ethics and Official Misconduct
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Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits
The nonprofit had a budget shortfall of roughly $2.5 million last year amid a difficult market for fund-raising.
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Wayne LaPierre: Dapper as Charged
His financial misdeeds may have led to conviction, but his extravagant sartorial tastes proved little help to the former NRA chief’s case.
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FirstEnergy Ex-C.E.O. and 2 Others Are Indicted in Bribery Scandal
Ohio’s attorney general accused a former chairman of the state’s Public Utilities Commission of taking more than $4.3 million in bribes from FirstEnergy executives.
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Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong Acquitted in Stock, Accounting Fraud Case
Lee Jae-yong’s case had raised questions about the immense power that chaebol leaders wield and the legal system holding them to account in South Korea.
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Morgan Stanley to Pay $249 Million in Block Trading Investigation
Federal prosecutors found at least one employee at the Wall Street firm had committed deceptive practices in handling trades of large blocks of stock from 2018 to 2021.
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U.S. Diet Panel Adds Another Researcher With Alcohol Industry Ties
After dropping two Harvard experts who had received industry support, the National Academies turned to a colleague with a similar background.
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Chaebol Families Dominate South Korea’s Economy: What to Know
Conglomerates that sprawl across the society trace their roots to the nation’s rise into a world power and have been tightly controlled for generations.
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BP Takes Tough Line With Former C.E.O. Over Relationships With Colleagues
The oil giant said Bernard Looney had “knowingly misled the board” about the relationships and was not entitled to $40 million.
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Bill Ackman’s Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment
The billionaire investor has mounted a high-profile battle against Harvard president Claudine Gay over antisemitism and threats to Jewish students on campus, but long-held personal grudges play a part, too.
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The Undoing of George Santos
Lying is one thing in politics. But lying and stealing for the sake of Ferragamo and Hermès?