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Baitball Blogger

(52,856 posts) Sat Jun 20, 2026, 09:04 PM 14 hrs ago

Who remembers the Arthur Andersen firm? [View all]

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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Who remembers the Arthur Andersen firm? [View all] Baitball Blogger 14 hrs ago OP

They're still around under other names LearnedHand 14 hrs ago #1

as is cognizant. mopinko 13 hrs ago #2

Had a friend that was going to work for them. Igel 12 hrs ago #3

They were the fuckheads trying tio give apartheid a figleaf using "the Sullivan principles" struggle4progress 12 hrs ago #4

Similar in some ways as moniss 12 hrs ago #5

Not quite accurate... WarGamer 12 hrs ago #6

I was just thinking of them because paulkienitz 11 hrs ago #7

I fo because I interviewed with them after I got my MBA catrose 11 hrs ago #8

Hmmmm, I remember Enron. n/t aggiesal 11 hrs ago #9

I do and sadly knew many people who were destroyed/involved with their evil doings. Lived in Houston then. efhmc 1 hr ago #10

Yeah...remember them, Enron and Kenny boy who probably got close Bengus81 1 hr ago #11

I remember my cousin telling me about a problem that was happening (he was a petroleum lawyer} and was told efhmc 1 hr ago #12

and also bad, it's inconceivable that they would be gone today. They would simply continue on Jbraybarten 17 min ago #13