The Corporate Hall of Shame

We all see news about corporations involved in unethical or immoral actions. A news article, a tweet, a blog, a private article. And just like that, we forget and move on to other things. But in today’s world, public pressure is the only way to enforce truth, honesty, integrity in corporations. And quite often governments too! So lest we forget, I welcome you to the Corporate Hall of Shame!

English Royalty at its finest!

Knighted by the queen in 2006, yet a year earlier, payed his wife £1.2 BILLION pounds in dividends (tax free of course, as she is resident of Monaco). Destroyed BHS in 2015 leaving it with a pension deficit of £571 Million pounds.

And now he is doing it again. He declares insolvency of the Arcadia Group just 1 DAY, before having to pay 10’s of Millions of pounds in taxes, leaves a pension deficit of £350 Million pounds.

Topshop owner’s collapse is ‘inevitable’

Sir Philip Green’s failure to invest in Arcadia has led to its downfall, says a former boss of Topshop.

Philip Green’s Arcadia went bust hours before having to pay taxpayer millions

SIR Philip Green’s Arcadia group went bust just hours before having to pay taxpayers tens of millions of pounds. Tough new HMRC “crown preference” powers come into force tomorrow — giving the taxma…

ComparetheMarket? Or ComparetheMuppet? Which are you?

Just how many £M’s do these “comparison sites” make off of you? Companies that are expert in manipulation and preying on you! We get bombarded with radio and online advertising and guess who pays? Yep. You, the “Sheeple”!

When it comes to money, savvy or sloppy? Diligent or careless? Pennywise or pennyfoolish? What is 15 mins of your time worth? £50? £100? Are you part of the “ComparetheMarket” culture? Or “ComparetheMuppet”?

ComparetheMarket fined £17.9m over competition law breach

Contracts meant getting the best home insurance deals was not as “simples” as its adverts suggest.

CompareTheMarket fined £17.9m over cost of home insurance premiums

The Competition and Markets Authority said UK-based CompareTheMarket stopped home insurers on its platform from offering lower prices on other comparison websites.

For $3 Billion dollars, you can play Monopoly in the 21st Century!

The price of a “Stay out of jail free card” has risen to $3 Billion dollars in 2020. So if you want to embezzle cash to buy private jets, a Picasso or Monet, or just some jewellery, ensure you have some cash, stashed away.

Yet aren’t you glad this company though is being “righteous”? Clawing back $174 million dollars from their corrupt leadership? Makes your heart melt, how considerate they are after using YOUR money, to stay out of jail!

Goldman Sachs to pay $3bn over 1MDB corruption scandal

The investment bank will pay a record sum for violating bribery laws in the 1MDB corruption affair.

Goldman Sachs Will Claw Back $174 Million From Execs Including Ex-CEO Lloyd Blankfein After $2.8 Billion Corruption Settlement

CEO David Solomon, along with three other execs, will take a pay cut while others will repay their earnings.

Modern day slavery and what it looks like.

Can you live on £3.50 an hour? And why are the UK government so lazy in tackling systematic abuse of a failed system?

Yet they plan to pay out £100m to its two co-founders, Mr Kamani and Carol Kane, as well as £50m to other executives.

Boohoo vows to investigate exploitation claims

The firm is to probe claims staff are underpaid and not socially distancing at a supplier in Leicester.

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My core mission. Make myself rich no matter what!

She left a trail of carnage behind that included a fake university degree, abandoning the U.S. to evade taxes, jacked up the price of a good generic product (EpiPen) by over 500% (price fixing). She has made her riches off the back of the public and government failings to regulate the industry. Amoral behaviour is her norm.

She retires with a $30+ Million dollar. Look for the embedded links in this article. There is more here than meets the eye! Scandals ‘R Us? Does the “My” in Mylan really mean mine, mine, mine!

Mylan CEO Bresch set to exit after years of controversy—and one last big deal

During Mylan CEO Heather Bresch’s 28-year stint at the company, it has utterly transformed into a generics giant—and courted controversy along the way. Now, Bresch says she’s stepping aside to clear the way for an even bigger version of Mylan.

Think EpiPen is Mylan’s first scandal? Here’s a timeline of jet use, an unearned MBA and more

Mylan’s EpiPen tornado is far from its first storm of controversy. It’s just the most mainstream. The company’s top brass has caught fire for personal use of company aircraft, an unearned degree, outsized compensation and alleged conflicts of interest.

The “Dieselgate” Fine Club

Mercedes Benz joins the “Fine club” with over £2 billion in fines & damages for trick software to fool Diesel emission standards. Volkswagen in the lead though with £35 Billion in fines! And guess what? You are paying their fines for them!

Daimler will settle its diesel emissions cheating scandal with the US for over $2 billion

Daimler will pay over $2 billion to settle allegations it equipped its diesel vehicles with software that would enable them to cheat on emissions tests. US prosecutors increased their scrutiny over emissions testing after the discover of Volkswagen’s massive fraud scandal.

What is the price of destruction?

Pockets $11.3M in 2019, now blows up a 46,000 year old sacred aboriginal site for bigger profits. Well done to investors for raising hell on this lunatic. But I cringe to see what his “Golden Parachute” will look like!

Rio Tinto: Chief executive to quit over destruction of Aboriginal caves

Jean-Sebastien Jacques and other senior executives will step down after the miner blew up sacred sites.

Red Bull wings can murder!

8 years of running from the law for murder. Then they drop all charges? WTF?

Thailand issues new charges against fugitive Red Bull heir

An estimated 10,000 anti-government protesters rallied in Bangkok on Sunday, with some calling for reform of the country’s monarchy.

Amazon scared of backlash?

Amazon claim it was made in error. Do you really believe that? They are plain scared workers will unite against them!

Amazon withdraws job adverts for union ‘spies’

The job description called for analyst to investigate employees who were joining unions.

Out of his depth, sadly for BT

A Golden Parachute indeed for being inept! Walks away with £1.7M for his last 10 months alone! And £16.5M in the last 5 years for running the company into the muck!

Former BT chief Patterson gives up £500,000 bonus

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Mine! Mine! Mine!

$200 Billion dollars richer, employees make $15 a hour. Fails New York’s recommended living wage, $15.56 an hour! Where is your soul Jeffie?

Protesters set up a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos’ mansion and demanded higher wages for Amazon workers after the CEO’s net worth surpassed $200 billion

The protest came the day after Bezos’ net worth exceeded $200 billion for the first time, making him one of the richest people in history.

We are paying for incompetence

Loses 151 million gallons a day, ¼ of daily supplies, yet received a £2M pay-off on top of the £777,500 12-month notice payment.

£2m golden goodbye for sacked boss of Thames Water

Thames Water has been accused of rewarding failure over the golden handshake for Steve Robertson.

CEO’s and their harems!

Looks like he wanted the money and also enjoy the apple pies! I guess $42M buys a lot of pie! Do CEO’s have harems?

McDonald’s CEO who was sacked for relationship responds to their lawsuit against him

Kleptocrats at work

How to run a hospital. Steal $345M in tax dollars, dump 11,000 employees and keep my own $24M in stocks and bonuses. Simple.

Hospitals received aid, laid off thousands while paying CEOs millions

Dr. Bill Miller from Chicago made an angry appeal to Donald Trump to provide proper protective equipment to healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic instead of spending money on the Blue Angels flying over hospitals.

Cut costs, get rich! Simple!

Woohoo! I’ll just cut pay across the board by 10-30% so I can make sure I get my $700M payout!

As Tesla Cuts Pay And Furloughs Workers, Elon Musk Lands $700 Million Payout

The enigmatic billionaire has hit the last two targets needed to unlock the first tranche of his $55 billion compensation package.

Get rich scheme?

4 years of losses facing bankruptcy. Quick! Get rid of 16,000 employees so I can get my $9M leaving payout! Gack!

Hertz Files For Bankruptcy After 16,000 Employees Were Let Go And CEO Made Over $9 Million

After 100 years in business, Hertz filed for bankruptcy on Friday. While Covid-19 has had an impact on the car-rental company, Hertz had been suffering long before the pandemic.

My Simple plan to get rich

Please Mr Taxpayer, pay my salary for doing a superbly stupid job whilst I fire 7,000 employees.

M&S defies pressure to cut executive pay packages

Chief exec Steve Rowe (pictured) will still take his full £810,000 salary plus bonuses this year despite asking long-suffering savers and the taxpayer to prop up the ailing business.

Fancy a Big Mac from San Quentin?

Twist the law and bingo! Modernised slavery! I wonder how much govt. officials make from this? What is the going rate for a Senator?

Penal labor in the United States – Wikipedia

Whole Foods, McDonald’s, Target, IBM, Texas Instruments, Boeing, Nordstrom, Intel, Wal-Mart, Victoria’s Secret, Aramark, AT&T, BP, Starbucks, Microsoft, Nike, Honda, Macy’s and Sprint and many more actively participated in prison in-sourcing throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

2 comments

Zoli September 8, 2020 - 7:01 pm

The sad and often overlooked truth in the mainstream narrative. Some of these are perfect examples that regulation have to be changed not allowing these type of (currently borderline criminal) events to happen

Mike September 9, 2020 - 11:38 am

Quite agree Zoli. Which is why it is critically important we vote in honest people with integrity, to carry forth required reforms.

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