Corporate Fraud
Corporate fraud is becoming an increasing problem in today?s business world. Several top corporations are dealing with top CEOs and executives stealing from their companies. Millions of Americans care about morality in the marketplace (Mokhiber). However, few Americans realize that when they buy stock in some companies, or when they use a certain company?s products, they are in fact supporting a criminal corporation (Mokhiber). The big companies that are criminally prosecuted represent only the tip of a very large iceberg of corporate wrongdoing (Mokhiber). For every company convicted of fraud, there are hundreds of others who get away with it (Mokhiber). Because of their immense political power, big corporations have the resources to defend themselves in courts of law and in the court of public opinion. Few prosecutors are willing to subject themselves to the constant legal and public relations barrage that a corporation?s well connected and high priced legal talent can inflict (Mokhiber).
The 1990s was a decade of booming markets and booming profits, and it was also a decade of rampant corporate criminality (Mokhiber). The start of the new millennium has been no different. Many corporate criminologists agree that corporate crime and violence inflicts far more damage on society
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