Enron has acknowledged that it inflated its financial statements beginning in 1997.
Newsday has acknowledged that between 2000 and 2004, it inflated its circulation by nearly 100,000 copies on weekdays and Sundays.
In June 2005, the S.E.C. sued Take-Two, contending that it inflated its results by $60 million in 2000 and 2001.
And the firm seems to have violated another unwritten law: it inflated its revenue in the annual American Lawyer survey of law firm rankings, the AmLaw 100, the equivalent of the Fortune 500 for law firms.
Urges Judge to Dismiss Civil Case | Standard & Poor's urged the dismissal of federal civil accusations that it inflated its credit ratings to win business during the boom in mortgage investments.
It also inflated its business history — claiming on its Web site that it was "currently funded by or developing projects with" seven government agencies and that it had several partnerships with major nonprofit groups.
Bristol has had to restate its earnings, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether it improperly inflated its revenue.
Three weeks ago, the company announced that it had inflated its earnings by an additional $2 billion -- raising the total amount of the accounting manipulation to more than $9 billion.
Tribune stumbled recently when Hoy's New York edition acknowledged that it had inflated its claimed circulation by 19%.
She also failed to show "diligence and judgment" by joining the board of King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, the report said, even though she knew of allegations that it improperly inflated its research statistics. .
WorldCom, a telecoms firm since renamed MCI, became the biggest bankruptcy of all time after it was discovered that it had falsely inflated its income by tens of billions, apparently with few questions from its incurious directors.
