"Adam Applegarth Adam J. Applegarth (born August 1962 in Sunderland, England) was the chief executive officer of the Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne based Northern Rock bank, one of the first victims of the subprime mortgage crisis. The bank was subsequently nationalised. The son of a music and drama teacher, he attended private Sedbergh School and Durham University, where he read Mathematics and Economics. He joined Northern Rock in October 1983 as a graduate trainee, becoming general manager in 1993, joining the board of directors in 1996 and being appointed chief executive in 2001 at the age of 39 and remained"
"stock. In his Declaration in support of motion to dismiss the First Amendment complaint, Loeb was forced to out himself as Mr.Pink. In April 2000, Hitsgalore withdrew the lawsuit. Anthony Elgindy, born Amr Ibrahim Elgindy in Egypt, was a member of Silicon Investor. Elgindy was known on the messaging board as Anthony@Pacific. He became a member of Silicon Investor in August 1998, and created his own message board, ""Anthony@Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony”. In 1999, Silicon Investor banned Anthony Elgindy because his controversial postings violated the Terms and Conditions of Silicon Investor but later reinstated his membership after a user-vote. Elgindy"
"of contention was whether the service should be run and controlled directly by the State or operated commercially by an Irish Broadcasting Company. The latter option, it was suggested, would follow the model adopted in the UK by the establishment of the BBC. Figgis was co-opted onto the committee, and this decision led to a series of allegations resulting in the new State's first corruption scandal of which Figgis himself was the focus. A former business associate of Figgis, Andrew Belton, sent a letter to J.J. Walsh the Postmaster General. Walsh's own preferences for a private syndicate, which would include"
"with Diligence Europe headed by Michael Howard. The Bermuda government accused Diligence of impersonating secret service personnel to obtain KPMG information. The Bermuda government accused Alfa Group's Ipoc International of money laundering. Alfa Group stated that Diligence was not hired by Alfa Group but by BGR which was founded by Haley Barbour. BGR had worked for Alfa Group's telecom Altimo. Alfa Group's legal disputes with BP date back to 1991, when the Canadian oil company Norex represented a newly formed, Russian-Canadian joint venture in Siberia's oil industry, operating the marginal Chernogor oil-fields close to Khanty-Mansijsk. With the Russian company Chernogorneft,"
"to become independent. On 24 October 2017, the firm confirmed that it was subject to a ""data security incident"" the previous year. Appleby is identified as the source of a 2017 leak of documents known as the Paradise Papers. In December 2017, the firm announced that it intended to sue the BBC and ""The Guardian"" newspaper over its reporting of the case. The Paradise Papers revealed that Appleby provided active client services to Mukhtar Ablyazov who at the time was charged in multiple jurisdictions for fraud and embezzlement of up to $10 billion from the bank he chaired. Appleby was"
"largest insurance company, now known as Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG). In 2002, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), a corporate regulator, initiated controversial civil proceedings against Whitlam alleging breaches of his NRMA director's duties in relation to his not signing a proxy vote, containing of 3793 votes, directing him to vote against a motion about the remuneration of directors. A single judge ruled that he had breached his duties as a director and banned him from being a director of any company for five years. Whitlam appealed the judgement. Three senior judges, sitting as the New South Wales"
"Q1 January 2015 restructuring of its Irish business, Apple Sales International, in a quasi-tax inversion, which led to the Paul Krugman labeled ""leprechaun economics"" affair in Ireland in July 2016 (see article). In early 2016, the Obama Administration blocked the proposed $160 billion Pfizer-Allergan Irish corporate tax inversion, the largest proposed corporate tax inversion in history. A decision which the Trump Administration also updeld. However, both Administrations were silent when the Irish State announced in July 2016 that 2015 GDP has risen 26.3% in one quarter due to the ""onshoring"" of corporate IP, and it was rumoured to be Apple."
"independence and the distinction between the government, think-tanks, charities, and private business and corporate interests has been raised. Werritty was investigated by senior civil servants led by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell. The published report implicated a company named IRG Ltd, ""But the report, which named the six companies and individuals that funded Werritty's Pargav ""slush fund"", has raised more unanswered questions. Among the Pargav donors, including the mining tycoon Mick Davis, private investigations firm G3 and billionaire property mogul Poju Zabludowicz, is a company referred to as simply ""IRG Ltd"". More than 30 companies and organisations use the same"
"as Gray & Appleby. In 1898 he founded his own eponymous law firm. By 1903 he was a justice of the peace when he sat on the marine court of inquiry into the wreck of the S.S. ""Madiana"". In 1938 he and Sir Dudley Spurling merged their practices to establish Appleby & Spurling. The year after Appleby's death in 1948, that firm merged with William Kempe to become Appleby Spurling Kempe (or Kemp), one of the predecessors of the firm that now trades as Appleby, the firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers leaks in 2017. He served in"
"to the credit crisis the company had focused on developing its own staff and most appointments including the Chief Executive, were made internally. At the time of the 2007 financial crisis Matt Ridley was the Chairman and Adam Applegarth was the Chief Executive. Ridley resigned in October 2007 and Applegarth resigned in November 2007, although the latter stayed on in a caretaker role until December 2007. The Chief Financial Officer was Andy Kuipers, who joined the company in 1987. After Applegarth's departure, Kuipers became the interim Chief Executive prior to the nationalisation before retiring on 31 August 2008. In February"
"Alleghany Corporation Alleghany Corporation is an investment holding company originally created by the railroad entrepreneurs Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen as a holding company for their railroad interests. It was incorporated in 1929 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1984. After the company's bankruptcy in the Great Depression, control of the company fell into the hands of Robert Ralph Young and Allan Price Kirby. Young used the company as a vehicle for his vendetta against the J.P. Morgan banking interests, who had financed the Van Sweringens and managed to defeat them and the Vanderbilt interests in a 1954 proxy fight for"
"footprint from those products alone than a major airline like British Airways or Air France. ""It's a lot more energy-intensive than you imagine,"" says Nick Baily, Belgrave Trust's founder. ""The emissions really add up over time. People don't realize that computers are responsible for around 5% of the world's carbon emissions."" The story was picked up by other hard news outlets such as Reuters, and as of January, 2011 no response or comment from Apple had been cited in contemporaneous media. The company has drawn attention for choosing to focus on the affluent as its primary audience. During the firm's"
"Schembri had also opened another company, Tillgate Inc. The companies were also owned by the Orion Trust New Zealand Limited, which are the same trustees of Mizzi and Schembri's New Zealand trusts, Rotorua and Haast respectively. As the first person to break news of Mizzi's and Schembri's involvement in Panama, she was subsequently named by ""Politico"" as one of ""28 people who are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe."" ""Politico"" described her as a ""one-woman WikiLeaks, crusading against untransparency and corruption in Malta."" In 2017, she alleged that Egrant, another Panama company, was owned by Michelle Muscat, wife of Prime Minister"
"as a vehicle for paying bribes in the Operation Car Wash. Some of these offshore companies are publicly known to operate for Odebrecht in Africa and be involved in bribes. Among those involved in the operation who also are named in the papers are Marcelo Odebrecht, Brazilian businessman and former Odebrecht' CEO, his father Emílio Odebrecht and his brother Maurício Odebrecht. Appleby and various banks in the Isle of Man, including Conister Bank which is owned by Arron Banks and Jim Mellon, had business with PokerStars and its founders, Mark Scheinberg and his father Isai Scheinberg, until it was sold"
"for $4.9 billion in 2014 to The Stars Group, formerly known as Amaya. PokerStars and its founders were pursued by the US Department of Justice for allegedly money laundering billions until they negotiated a settlement in 31 July 2012. The Stars Group along with its former member of board of directors Wesley Clark and former CEO David Baazov also did business with Appleby. In March 2016, David Baazov and other executives were charged by Canadian regulators with multiple securities fraud charges related to the acquisition of PokerStars. Saadi Yacef, freedom fighter, author, and politician, appears in the Papers in connection"
"hotels, distribution, and textiles, and many other lines of business. During 1973, Rowland's position was the subject of a High Court case in which eight Lonrho directors sought Rowland's dismissal, due to both his temperament and to claims he had concealed financial information from the board. Rowland failed in his legal attempt to block the move but was subsequently backed by shareholders and retained his position. British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, referring to the case, criticised the company in the House of Commons and described events there as ""the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism"". In 1983, Rowland took over"
"controversial retroactive reinsurance transaction involving the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation (AHERF), which was the focus of separate investigations by the SEC, the New York Attorney General and the New York State Insurance Department. The company settled the case by paying $75 million in penalties and disgorgement. In February 2006, Greenberg and other journalists were served subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) demanding records of phone and e-mail communications with sources for an investigation of which the journalists were not the target. In a rare public reprimand, SEC chairman Christopher Cox said that he was not consulted"
"founded a company called Pargav Ltd., which went on to receive a further £147,000 in donations from Tory party supporters and businessmen. Pargav's sole director was Oliver Hylton, a close senior aide of Hintze's and the manager of his charitable foundation that paid the donations to Atlantic Bridge. It emerged that Hylton, who was initially suspended by CQS following news of the Werrity affair, later ceased employment with the company. Werritty was involved in a number of secret meetings (the first, on 8 September 2009) organised by Denis Macshane, involving himself and Matthew Gould, Britain's Ambassador to Israel, with the"
"and Jack Tramiel ""the world's two leading business-as-war entrepreneurs"". At its peak Amstrad achieved a stock market value of £1.2 billion, but the 1990s proved a difficult time for the company. The launch of a range of business PCs was marred by unreliable hard disks (supplied by Seagate), causing high levels of customer dissatisfaction and damaging Amstrad's reputation in the personal computer market, from which it never recovered. Subsequently, Seagate was ordered to pay Amstrad $153 million in damages for lost revenue. This was later reduced by $22 million in an out of court settlement. In the early 1990s, Amstrad"
"Group Ltd, a company with an address in the British Virgin Islands. Through connections created with Australian federal ministers, trade officials and their networks, the governments of Britain, Russia, Romania and many others were persuaded to believe Firepower offered important solutions to global warming and the peak oil energy crisis. However, after questions were raised about the efficacy of the 'Firepower Pill' and related products in reducing engine fuel consumption, the Firepower organisation's principal, Timothy Francis (Tim) Johnston, was claimed by media critics to have perpetrated a large-scale confidence trick or scam, the subject of investigation by the Australian Securities"
"and a sometime member of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Alleghany's current portfolio includes: Alleghany Corporation Alleghany Corporation is an investment holding company originally created by the railroad entrepreneurs Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen as a holding company for their railroad interests. It was incorporated in 1929 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1984. After the company's bankruptcy in the Great Depression, control of the company fell into the hands of Robert Ralph Young and Allan Price Kirby. Young used the company as a vehicle for his vendetta against the J.P. Morgan banking interests, who had financed the Van"
"still under investigation. In 2016 the Panama Papers, 11.5 million documents with details about offshore entities owned by people from many countries, were leaked. Macri was listed as a director of Fleg Trading from 1998 to 2009. He did not declare his involvement in 2007 (when he became mayor) or in 2015, when he became president. Prosecutor Federico Delgado asked the judiciary to determine if Macri ""maliciously failed to complete his tax declaration"". Macri argued that he did not report his involvement because he was not a stakeholder and did not receive money from it. The company was established by"
"were to: Alfred Kohlberg, an American textile importer and an ardent member of the anti-Communist China Lobby, funded the group, registered as American Business Consultants, Inc. (ABC) in 1947, ""an extremist group of corporate and ex-government personnel."" Affiliates of ABC included Lawrence Johnson (owners of a supermarket chain in upstate New York) and Jack Wren (former Naval Intelligence officer at BBDO advertising agency). (Kohlberg was also an original national council member of the John Birch Society.) Keenan served as ABC president, Bierly as vice president, and Kirkpatrick as secretary-treasurer. ABC offered a service costing $5 to investigate people. Newsletter subscribers"
"that were widely reported on by the media and resulted in fraud charges, bankruptcy protection requests, and the closure of companies and accounting firms. The scandals were the result of creative accounting, misleading financial analysis, as well as bribery. Various companies had issues with fraudulent accounting practices, including Nugan Hand Bank, Phar-Mor, WorldCom, and AIG. One of the most widely reported violation of accounting ethics involved Enron, a multinational company, that for several years had not shown a true or fair view of their financial statements. Their auditor Arthur Andersen, an accounting firm considered one of the ""Big Five"", signed"
"John Galt Corporation The John Galt Corporation is a demolition and construction contractor based in New York City, which was subcontracted to demolish the Deutsche Bank Building after the building suffered severe damage during the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The company was involved in multiple scandals related to its work at the site. The company was founded in 1983 and named for a character from Ayn Rand's novel ""Atlas Shrugged"". The company had apparently done no substantial work of any kind until it was subcontracted by Bovis Lend Lease to demolish the Deutsche Bank Building."
"to George Redmond, Dublin Corporation manager. Gogarty was outspoken in his criticism of his employers, several politicians, and the entire planning process. The Irish Independent referred to Gogarty's courage, in calling him ""the plucky pensioner"". Gogarty received much support from the public gallery during his participation in the Tribunal. Gogarty died on 15 September 2005. The Tribunal's inquiries between 1997 and 2002 comprised what were in effect three Public Inquiries, that covered topics as diverse as land rezoning, radio broadcasting and offshore trusts and corporations. The Tribunal reported in September 2002 that the payments received by Burke amounted to corrupt"
"America's Foundation CEO Ron Robinson, Amy Ridenour, and David Ridenour. The following individuals have affiliations with the National Center for Public Policy Research. In February 2014, at Apple Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting, a proposal by the NCPPR as a shareholder to force Apple to ""disclose the costs of its sustainability programs"" was rejected by 97% vote. The NCPPR representative argued that Apple's decision to have all of its power come from greens sources would lower shareholders' profits. CEO Tim Cook ""categorically rejected the worldview behind the NCPPR's advocacy. He said that there are many things Apple does because they are"
"practices, and that as a result all Church of England organisations would cease investment in News Corporation. In practical terms this involved the Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board in selling shareholdings valued at around £1.9 million. In light of News Corporations global review, John Hartigan, the CEO of News Corporation's Australian company News Limited, announced a review of all payments in the previous three years, and that he was personally willing to co-operate with any Australian Government led inquiry. The Australian Green party called for a parliamentary inquiry into News Limited, but Hartigan directly denied allegations"
"for shareholders, as was seen with Botox. The rejection by Allergan, however, did not prevent Valeant and Pershing from pursuing the Botox maker further. Originally offering $48.30 per share, Valeant increased the cash portion of its offer to $58.30 per share. Pyott and Allergan, standing tall on their beliefs, rejected the offer citing yet again Valeant’s unsustainable business model. As expected, this heated up the war between Pyott, Ackman and Valeant. In order to ward off the hostile takeover attempt, Allergan was courting other offers from companies with more sustainable business models. On November 17, 2014, Allergan announced that they"
"of other companies, most notably Waste Management, Sunbeam, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona and WorldCom. The subsequent bankruptcy of WorldCom, which quickly surpassed Enron as the biggest bankruptcy in history (and has since been passed by the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and WaMu in the 2008 financial crisis) led to a domino effect of accounting and corporate scandals. On May 31, 2005, in ""Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States"", the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously reversed Andersen's conviction because of serious errors in the trial judge's jury instructions. The Supreme Court held that the instructions were too vague"
"had reported it to the AFIP, and it was closed in 2008, just a year after Mauricio Macri became chief of government. On April 7, 2016, federal prosecutor Federico Delgado began a formal investigation into Macri's involvement with Fleg Trading Ltd., the company registered in Panama for which President Macri was listed as director. Judge Sebastián Casanello was asked to start the file on the inquiry. The initial petition was made by Norman Martínez, deputee for the Front for Victory. Martínez claims Macri could be guilty of perjury due to omissions made in his sworn statement. Martínez also referenced another"
"comment resulted in several angry retorts, including one from the London Stock Exchange, which controls AIM, pointing out that the number of companies that go into liquidation or administration in a year is actually fewer than 2%. AIM has since issued new rules requiring that listed companies maintain a website. The calibre of participants in the market has also been criticised by fund manager John Hempton of Bronte Capital Management. AIM was criticised for allowing Langbar International to be listed. This £375 million ($750m) share fraud was investigated by the Serious Fraud Office and the City of London Police when"
"collateral for a $2.5 billion capital infusion by Dynegy Corporation when Dynegy was planning to buy Enron. When Dynegy examined Enron's financial records carefully, they repudiated the deal and dismissed their CEO, Chuck Watson. The new chairman and CEO, the late Daniel Dienstbier, had been president of NNG and an Enron executive at one time and was forced out of Enron by Ken Lay. Dienstbier was an acquaintance of Warren Buffett. NNG continues to be profitable now. During 2001, after a series of revelations involving irregular accounting procedures bordering on fraud perpetrated throughout the 1990s involving Enron and its accounting"