The Corporate Scandal Sheet: References

Corporate and CEO political contributions:

• Center for Responsive Politics
  This site provides information relating to the 2002 election cycle and was downloaded from FEC on 6/3/02.
• "Political Contributions" 6/26/02 The Washington Post A10.

CEO compensation:

• AFL-CIO
• "Dennis the Menace" Daniel Eisenberg 6/17/02 Time.
• E-comp online
• "Executive Excess 2001" Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies and John Cavanagh, United for a Fair Economy.
• "Executive Compensation Scorecard" 4/15/02 Business Week.
• "Why the Bad Guys Of the Boardroom Emerged en Masse" 6/20/02 The Wall Street Journal.

Scandal information:

• "AOL's Pittman May Resign Today" 7/18/02 The New York Times.
• "Anderson Blames Client; Auditor's Role at Issue" 6/27/02 The Washington Post E5.
• "Creative Transactions Earned Team Rewards" 6/19/02 The Washington Post A1.
• "Dennis the Menace" Daniel Eisenberg 6/17/02 Time.
• "Did KPMG Stand Up, or Cave In, to Xerox?" 4/12/02 The New York Times.
• "Executive Pay: A Special Report; Tell the Good News. Then Cash In" 4/7/02 The New York Times.
• "Energy Firm Restates by $7.8 Billion" 7/6/02 The Washington Post.
• "Honcho Shuffle at AOL" 7/18/02 CNN/Money.
• "Merck Recorded $12.4 Billion in Revenue It Never Collected" 7/8/02 The Wall Street Journal.
• "Noteworthy Corporate Investigations" 7/2/02 Financial Times.
• "Regulators make Reliant probe formal" 6/21/02 The Houston Chronicle.
• "SEC eyes Bristol-Myers" 7/15/02 CNN/Money.
• "Shareholder In Gazprom Of Russia Sues Auditor" 4/16/02 The New York Times W1.
• "Table: Accounting Failures Aren't New-Just More Frequent" 1/28/02 Business Week Online.
• "Trouble Keeping the Scandals Straight?" 6/30/02 The Washington Post H3.
• "Unconventional Transactions Boosted Sales" 7/18/02 The Washington Post.
• "Vivendi's Chief Quits, and Shares Fall on Accounting Fear" 7/2/02 The New York Times.
• "Vivendi tanks on accounting jitters" 7/2/02 MSNBC.
• "Vivendi may face charge of $1billion" 5/2/02 The Orlando Sentinel.
• "WorldCom probe shifts to ousted CEO Ebbers" 7/2/02 MSNBC.

Investigation information:

• "Noteworthy Corporate Investigations" 7/2/02 Financial Times.
• Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP
  This is the nation's largest plaintiff's contingency fee-based law firm.

Stock price changes:

• "Dennis the Menace" Daniel Eisenberg 6/17/02 Time.
• "Why the Bad Guys Of the Boardroom Emerged en Masse" 6/20/02 The Wall Street Journal.

Auditor information:

• Obtained from corporate SEC filings available from EDGAR.
• "Recomputing Earnings With Lawbook and Eraser" 7/2/02 The New York Times.

Layoffs/jobs lost:

• AFL-CIO
• "CMS to cut back energy unit" 7/2/02 Financial Times.
• "Executive Excess 2001" Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies and John Cavanagh, United for a Fair Economy.
• "Profiles in greed: Corporate titans cash in" 6/30/02 Billings Gazette.

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