financial scandals
Embezzlement making headlines
Financial scandals are episodes of fraud, corruption, or deception involving money, investments, or corporate accounting that become public and provoke outrage.
The term covers a range of misconduct—embezzlement, insider trading, fraudulent bookkeeping, Ponzi schemes—united by betrayal of financial trust.
The Enron collapse remains one of the most notorious financial scandals in American history.
A financial scandal typically involves both the wrongdoing itself and its dramatic exposure.
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