Sentence examples for executive wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay became public symbols of executive wrongdoing and financial malfeasance after the tech and telecom boom of the late 1990s turned to bust.

These days, boards are working overtime to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other governance requirements meant to protect shareholders from executive wrongdoing.

Mr. Lay, along with Enron's president, Jeffrey K. Skilling, became the public symbol of executive wrongdoing and financial malfeasance after the stock market boom of the late 1990s turned to bust.

The bill creates a new board to oversee and discipline auditors, establishes new criminal statutes and longer prison terms to punish executive wrongdoing, and expands civil-court protections for defrauded investors and corporate whistleblowers.

BLOOMBERG NEWS Looking at Ken Lay and the Lack of Financial Crisis Cases | Kenneth L. Lay, the former chief executive of Enron who died of a heart attack five years ago, became the public symbol of executive wrongdoing and financial malfeasance.

A brisk, policy-heavy volume, "The Presidency of Richard Nixon" (University Press of Kansas, $29.95) reflects what is now probably the most widely held assessment of his Administration: a mixed bag of bumbling and breakthroughs in foreign affairs, a progressive if unenthusiastic domestic policy and a still unmatched record of executive wrongdoing.

While authorities do not suspect the chief executive of wrongdoing, the meetings signal that the case is at an advanced stage.

Whenever there are allegations of high level executive branch wrongdoing, there is a justifiable worry that the executive branch itself cannot adequately investigate it.

Before the independent counsel statute expired, thankfully, back in 1999, the chief justice chose the three judges charged with naming an independent counsel to investigate allegations of executive branch wrongdoing.

A federal jury on Tuesday cleared a Citigroup executive of wrongdoing in connection with the bank's sale of risky mortgage-related investments at the peak of the housing boom, dealing a blow to the government's effort to hold Wall Street executives accountable for their conduct during the financial crisis.

The independent counsel statute, passed after Watergate, allowed the appointment of a prosecutor who would look into high-level executive branch wrongdoing and answer to a panel of judges, and who could not be fired by the president, as Mr. Nixon sought to do.