CEO Rap Sheet

Orchestrated one of the largest corporate frauds in history. Enron's fake accounting hid billions in debt. 20,000 employees lost jobs and pensions. Skilling sentenced to 24 years.

Directed an $11B accounting fraud at WorldCom, the largest in history at the time. Sentenced to 25 years. Died in prison in 2020 after compassionate release.

Enron founder who built the fraud factory. Encouraged employees to buy stock while secretly selling his own. Convicted on 10 counts. Died of a heart attack before sentencing, vacating the conviction.

Ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history for at least 17 years. $64.8B in stated client assets vanished. Thousands of victims including charities. Sentenced to 150 years. Died in prison.

Claimed Theranos could run hundreds of blood tests from a single drop. It couldn't. Defrauded investors of $700M+ and endangered patients with fake test results. Sentenced to 11 years.

CEO during Lehman's $691B collapse that triggered the global financial crisis. Used Repo 105 accounting tricks to hide $50B in debt. Never criminally charged despite congressional grilling.

Raised the price of Daraprim (a life-saving AIDS drug) by 5,000% overnight from $13.50 to $750. Later convicted of securities fraud at his hedge fund. Sentenced to 7 years. Dubbed 'Pharma Bro.'

CEO of German fintech whose $2.1B in reported cash 'didn't exist.' Europe's Enron. Braun arrested, COO Jan Marsalek fled and is still missing. Company collapsed overnight.

Enron's CFO who created the off-balance-sheet entities that hid billions in debt. Made $45M from the schemes. Cooperated with prosecutors, sentenced to 6 years. The architect of the fraud.

Ran a $7B Ponzi scheme through fake certificates of deposit in Antigua. FBI raided his offices. Convicted on 13 felony counts. Sentenced to 110 years in federal prison.

Looted $600M from Tyco. Infamous $6,000 shower curtain and $2M birthday party on the company dime. Sentenced to 8-25 years. Released in 2014.

Oversaw creation of 16 million fake customer accounts to hit sales targets. Employees opened accounts without permission, charged fees on them. Fined $17.5M personally, clawed back $41M. Banned from banking.

Claimed Nikola had a working hydrogen semi-truck. The demo video was a truck rolling downhill with no engine. Convicted of 3 fraud counts for lying to investors. Sentenced to 4 years.

Burned through $16B trying to IPO a real estate company as a tech startup. Self-dealing: charged WeWork $5.9M for his own 'We' trademark. Ousted before IPO. Got $1.7B exit package.

Auto industry titan arrested in Tokyo for hiding $80M+ in compensation. Escaped Japan while out on bail by hiding in a musical equipment box on a private jet. Now a fugitive in Lebanon.