Who remembers the Arthur Andersen firm?

[Baitball Blogger]

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.

[LearnedHand]

1. They're still around under other names

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

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

[mopinko]

2. as is cognizant.

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]

3. Had a friend that was going to work for them.

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.

[struggle4progress]

4. They were the fuckheads trying tio give apartheid a figleaf using "the Sullivan principles"

[moniss]

5. Similar in some ways as

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]

6. Not quite accurate...

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]

7. I was just thinking of them because

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.

[catrose]

8. I fo because I interviewed with them after I got my MBA

Glad I didn’t go with them.