Corporate Scandal Trading Cards
Collect 'em all!
Unless you work for the Securities and Exchange Commission—and probably even if you do—the plague of scandals has left you as confused as an Enron auditor. Was it WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers or Global Crossing's Gary Winnick who made $735 million from his telecom firm's stock options?
Who destroyed ImClone—the Waksals or the Rigases? What's the difference between Halliburton and Harken? What is Adelphia, anyway?
Here, to clear it all up, are Slate's Corporate Scandal Trading Cards—the fastest guide to America's top 10 business crackups. (And they even come with the Slate Guarantee: You can trade our cards with your friends—and they won't immediately lose 99 percent of their value!)
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David Plotz is the Editor of Slate. He's the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and Good Book. He appears on Slate's Political Gabfest.
Interactive design: Josh Payton. Creative direction: Kathleen Kincaid.Photographs of: George W. Bush by Gary Hershorn/Reuters; Dick Cheney by William Philpott/Reuters; David Duncan by Larry Downing/Reuters; Bernie Ebbers by Hyungwon Kang/Reuters; Dennis Kozlowski by Peter Morgan/Reuters; Kenneth Lay by Hyungwon Kang/Reuters; Joseph Nacchio by HO/Reuters; John Rigas from AP/World Wide Photos; Martha Stewart by Mike Segar/Reuters; Samuel Waksal by William Philpott/Reuters; Gary Winnick from AP/World Wide Photos.