It also made loans to the troubled soccer club Vasco de Gama and the crisis-ridden business daily Gazeta Mercantil.
Mr. Kucinich and others place significant blame on the rating agencies and their conflict-ridden business models — they are paid by the issuers they rate — for much of the financial crisis around mortgage-related securities.
Michael Wines (NYT) RUSSIA: JEWISH LEADER HELD -- The St . Petersburgpolice arrested the local head of the Russian Jewish Congress and charged him with kidnapping two people in a case they implied was linked to struggles within the city's crime-ridden business world.
With a background in accounting, he has also taken on scandal-ridden businesses that have cost shareholders and taxpayers spectacular amounts through mismanagement, including the Parmalat dairy empire, Telecom Italia and the bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
On-screen, the diminutive, balding Mr. Berezovsky was transformed into the dashing Platon Makovsky (played by the Russian sex symbol Vladimir Mashkov), who, through sheer genius and personal magnetism, amasses a fortune in Russia's crime-ridden automobile business.
The first time was in 1978, when its debt-ridden steel business was taken over by the state.
Some suggest that only going to a music subscription model similar to that employed by the piracy-ridden game business will stabilize the industry in the long run.
Holder of patents covering everything from color television to the MP3 audio-compression format, Thomson has been selling off its loss-ridden television business to focus on becoming the fount of everything digital, from cameras to DVD duplication, for the entertainment industry.
Fewer restrictions on layoffs could make it easier for Sony to leave loss-ridden traditional businesses and concentrate resources on more innovative, promising ones.
Family Business, ridden by champion jockey Tony McCoy, was odds-on favourite for the Feast of St Raymond Novices' Chase.
Later, as the president of Kroll Associates, a large private investigating company based in New York, he has done everything from overseeing the cleanup of Long Island's crime-ridden waste hauling business to stamping out corruption in Teamsters elections and fraud at the Kmart Corporation.
