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Baitball Blogger

(52,856 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 09:04 PM 16 hrs ago

Who remembers the Arthur Andersen firm?

Back in 2002 it destroyed documents that would have found it complicit in the Enron scam, and like overnight, the firm was dissolved.

It's just funny how no one talks about it anymore. Not even as a cautionary tale. Which makes you wonder if the Epstein mess is big enough to have the same effect with some of these complicit firms.

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LearnedHand

(5,678 posts)
1. They're still around under other names
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 09:16 PM
16 hrs ago

Still rooting at the government teat. Accenture is one of the successor entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture

mopinko

(74,198 posts)
2. as is cognizant.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 09:24 PM
16 hrs ago

it’s a subsidiary that has programers/coders in india. they go to incredible amounts of bother to wine and dine u.s. execs who use their services.

Igel

(37,670 posts)
3. Had a friend that was going to work for them.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 10:25 PM
15 hrs ago

Happy as punch with her new MBA.

Then she wasn't.

Of course, the conviction against it was overturned so there was no outstanding conviction. But that didn't stop the penalty from having already been inflicted.

moniss

(9,196 posts)
5. Similar in some ways as
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 10:41 PM
15 hrs ago

the destruction of the videos of CIA torture. The laughable excuses for destruction of evidence are many and the penalties are rarely individually severe. North should still be in prison for the obstruction of justice in the Iran-Contra scandal. My feelings about Nixon I have made clear many times. Short of the gallows for him but just barely. There are many more but the basic way the laws and the courts are only the average people get the heavy hand of "justice" for tampering with witnesses and destroying/hiding/rigging evidence.

WarGamer

(18,932 posts)
6. Not quite accurate...
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 10:43 PM
15 hrs ago

the DoJ was curb stomped 9-0 by SCOTUS for deceiving the jury in juror instructions.

Rehnquist had interesting things to say about the DoJ including Andrew Weissman.

paulkienitz

(1,555 posts)
7. I was just thinking of them because
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 11:55 PM
14 hrs ago

I was wondering if the AI bubble is going to lead to companies shredding documents that show complicity in puffing up the crazy market bubble by hiding the awful financial truth.

efhmc

(17,263 posts)
10. I do and sadly knew many people who were destroyed/involved with their evil doings. Lived in Houston then.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 10:03 AM
3 hrs ago

Bengus81

(10,534 posts)
11. Yeah...remember them, Enron and Kenny boy who probably got close
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 10:11 AM
3 hrs ago

along with Anderson to being the Administrators of Social Security if Bush.idiot could have gotten his way. Nothing has changed,those Republican asshats would love to do the same thing to social security with different names but the same FRAUD.

efhmc

(17,263 posts)
12. I remember my cousin telling me about a problem that was happening (he was a petroleum lawyer} and was told
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 10:13 AM
3 hrs ago

not to worry that AA would take care of it. A conversation that meant nothing to me at the time.

Raftergirl

(1,894 posts)
14. We use to get invited to sit in Arthur Anderson's lux box at US Open as my ex BIL mentor was a big wig there.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 11:47 AM
2 hrs ago

Then they crashed and burned and that was the end of that. I loved being in the lux box. 😢

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