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124,000 leaked Uber records show a kill switch used against police raids in six countries and a $90-million-a-year lobbying operation that reached Emmanuel Macron while he was still a minister.
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A court examiner found Lehman moved up to $50 billion off its books every quarter using a legal opinion no American law firm would write. Its auditor paid $109 million combined to settle over it. No executive was ever charged.
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DuPont found its own Teflon chemical in a baby's umbilical cord blood in 1981 and said nothing. The EPA didn't find out for 24 years — and its record fine amounted to about half a day of DuPont's revenue.
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Ford's infamous cost-benefit memo wasn't even about the Pinto specifically. The death toll everyone cites (500-900) isn't the one the recall was built on (27), and neither kept Ford out of a homicide trial it still won.
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Germany's insurance lobby alone spent €15.29 million influencing federal policy last year, filed correctly and on time. What the register still doesn't track is where the lawmakers go next.
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Snapchat's AI flagged a private joke and routed it to the FBI, which routed it to local police, in under an hour. The federal watchlist center it fed into just asked vendors to help it predict who's next.
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23andMe let a credential-stuffing attack on 14,000 accounts expose the genetic data of 6.9 million people, then went bankrupt and sold what was left of that data back to the CEO who was running it when the breach happened.
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Flint's 2014 water switch poisoned thousands of children and killed 12 people in a Legionnaires' outbreak; every criminal charge against officials was later dismissed on procedural grounds, not the facts.
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J&J spent seven years insisting its baby powder never contained asbestos while a subsidiary it created to hold the talc lawsuits tried three times to use bankruptcy to freeze them, and lost all three times.
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Insys Therapeutics ran a bribery scheme disguised as a doctor speaker series and an insurance call center trained to lie, until its founder became the first pharma executive convicted of racketeering over the opioid crisis.
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A Bangladeshi bank evacuated Rana Plaza the day cracks appeared in its walls. The five garment factories upstairs, sewing for Primark, Walmart, Benetton, and Mango, sent workers back the next morning.
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Siemens paid roughly $1.4 billion in bribes across a decade to win contracts worldwide, settled for a record $1.6 billion, and the manager who ran the slush fund got two years' probation.