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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 65 controversies, including “Bear Stearns: internal fine, 60-day suspension and subsequent resignation” and “Towers Financial: consultant role alongside Steven Hoffenberg in operations later associated with massive fraud”.
65 controversies · 87 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 50 controversies, including “Early Zip2 years: investigation into lack of US work authorisation and Musk's denial” and “Tesla: dispute with Martin Eberhard over founder status and settlement of defamation lawsuit”.
50 controversies · 79 sources
Celebrities, influencers and social mediaBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 30 controversies, including “Old 2017 content: racist/homophobic remarks and sexualised joke about teenage girl, followed by acknowledgement of "inappropriate" language” and “Video funding 1 000 cataract operations: debate over monetising philanthropy and disability representation”.
30 controversies · 51 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 30 controversies, including “James Damore: dismissed after memo challenging diversity policies” and “Project Maven: internal revolt against Pentagon AI and decision not to renew”.
30 controversies · 52 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 28 controversies, including “OKCoin / Bitcoin.com: break with Star Xu and public dispute over Roger Ver contract” and “Sequoia: allegation of breach of exclusivity, injunction overturned and Zhao's counterattack”.
28 controversies · 47 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 27 controversies, including “IRS: Coinbase challenges 'John Doe' summons seeking identities of thousands of users” and “Bitcoin Cash: insider trading suspicions surrounding launch, internal investigation finds no wrongdoing”.
27 controversies · 40 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 27 controversies, including “Oracle: aggressive accounting practices and revenue restatement in early 1990s” and “'Trashgate': Oracle pays private investigators to investigate Microsoft allies”.
27 controversies · 47 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 27 controversies, including “Apple Maps: failed launch and Tim Cook's public apology” and “Foxconn and working conditions: independent audits launched under public pressure”.
27 controversies · 47 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 26 controversies, including “Peep-show case: pre-trial detention followed by case dismissed (non-lieu) on aggravated procuring charge” and “Conviction for handling proceeds of misuse of corporate assets: two-year suspended prison sentence and €250,000 fine”.
26 controversies · 42 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 25 controversies, including “1998: departure from Citigroup following power struggle with Sandy Weill and management tensions” and “March 2008: Bear Stearns acquisition with nearly $30 billion Fed facility — debate over public bailout”.
25 controversies · 45 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 25 controversies, including “First Boston: approximately $100 million loss following interest-rate bet, derailing his internal rise” and “Financial crisis: BlackRock public mandates and criticism over conflicts of interest”.
25 controversies · 43 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 24 controversies, including “'Open Letter to Hobbyists': Bill Gates calls unauthorised software copying 'theft' and sparks foundational debate over proprietary software” and “Traffic arrests in the 1970s and driving record made public”.
24 controversies · 45 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 24 controversies, including “Acquisition of Express Newspapers amid controversy over adult publishing empire” and “Daily Express anti-asylum seeker campaign and NUJ journalists' revolt”.
24 controversies · 27 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 24 controversies, including “Scour: $250 billion copyright lawsuit and bankruptcy of Kalanick's first company” and “Surge pricing: accusations of excessive charges during disasters and severe weather”.
24 controversies · 46 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 23 controversies, including “2000–2003: financial restatement and SEC cease-and-desist order against Nvidia” and “Stock options: $127.4 million restatement after review of grant dates”.
23 controversies · 35 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 23 controversies, including “Drexel Burnham Lambert: professional closeness to Michael Milken during junk bond scandal, without personal charges against Black” and “Caesars: disputed restructurings before bankruptcy and examiner's report estimating up to $5.1 billion in potential claims”.
23 controversies · 35 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 23 controversies, including “Jeffrey Epstein becomes Wexner's financial adviser and obtains exceptionally broad power of attorney” and “Epstein serves as a trustee of the Wexner Foundation for fifteen years”.
23 controversies · 40 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 23 controversies, including “2005–2012: Loopt — retrospective internal criticism of leadership style and alleged attempts to replace him” and “2012: controversy over Loopt's actual user numbers before its sale”.
23 controversies · 39 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 22 controversies, including “JPMorgan Private Bank: close professional and subsequently personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” and “After Epstein's conviction: continued contacts, visits to Palm Beach and the Virgin Islands, and approximately 1,200 emails”.
22 controversies · 35 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 22 controversies, including “HP: influential board role during governance crisis and controversial Autonomy acquisition” and “Facebook: back-channel communications with Zuckerberg during share reclassification negotiations”.
22 controversies · 34 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “1998–2000: $8 million USWeb contract followed by Schwab joining its board with stock options — conflict-of-interest controversy” and “2017–2025: recurring criticism of his remuneration, WEF financial transparency and public funding of security”.
21 controversies · 30 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “Reliance succession: public confrontation with Anil Ambani after Dhirubhai's death, followed by family division” and “RIL–RNRL: Ambani brothers' legal battle over KG-D6 gas pricing resolved in favour of government framework”.
21 controversies · 46 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “CMA CGM near insolvency: debt restructuring and entry of investors, including public FSI” and “Major commitment to LNG: criticism over methane leaks and accusations of greenwashing”.
21 controversies · 33 sources
Business and billionairesMedia and journalism
Documented profile covering 19 controversies, including “Aggravated extortion of David Trezeguet: final five-year sentence” and “Milan 'fotoricatti': final conviction for attempted extortion, with acquittals on other counts”.
19 controversies · 25 sources9 convictions2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 19 controversies, including “2014: approximately 18,000 redundancies after Nokia acquisition” and “'Karma' remarks about women's pay rises, followed by apology”.
19 controversies · 35 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 18 controversies, including “WeWork leasing buildings owned by Adam Neumann: conflicts of interest involving related-party leases” and “WeWork loans to Neumann and WE Holdings, including $362 million loan for early exercise of options”.
18 controversies · 30 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 18 controversies, including “Yahoo! BB: data leak affecting 4.5 million people and six-month 50% salary cut for Son” and “Sprint abandons planned T-Mobile acquisition amid resistance from US regulators”.
18 controversies · 29 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 18 controversies, including “eBay / Goldman Sachs: litigation over "IPO spinning" and financial settlement” and “eBay: battle with Carl Icahn over board conflicts of interest and Skype sale”.
18 controversies · 31 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 17 controversies, including “30-day PFDK sanction for statements, subsequently overturned on appeal” and “Disciplinary referral in 2020 over criticism of TFF, without sanction”.
17 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionairesMedia and journalism
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Canal+: €3.2 million net severance payment considered excessive” and “Olivennes report and Hadopi: promotion of 'graduated response'”.
15 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Chrysler: restructuring plan involving approximately 26 000 job cuts and factory closures” and “Mercedes: substantial workforce reductions in Germany despite previous wage concessions”.
15 controversies · 28 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “1971: purchase tax fraud involving export records, arrest and settlement with Customs & Excise” and “1992–1993: British Airways 'dirty tricks' affair ends favourably for Branson and Virgin”.
15 controversies · 26 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Global unintended acceleration crisis and mass recalls: testimony before US Congress” and “$1.2 billion criminal settlement: Toyota acknowledges misleading consumers and authorities about accelerator defects”.
14 controversies · 23 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “2011: "Team Themis" project targeting WikiLeaks and criticism — Karp's public apology and break with HBGary” and “2012–2018: secret predictive policing partnership in New Orleans”.
14 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “EPH: €2.5 million EU fine for obstructing antitrust inspection, upheld in court” and “Czech football: "Křetínský bag affair" over match-fixing suspicions, followed by later claims it was staged”.
14 controversies · 29 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “1995–2016: "The Diversity Myth" — controversial passages about rape and diversity and subsequent apologies” and “2015–2016: Zenefits compliance crisis — Sacks becomes CEO and is subsequently cleared by internal investigation into "Macro" software”.
14 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Royal Navy incident, military detention and discharge” and “Ten days at Barlinnie after unpaid fine for public disorder”.
14 controversies · 15 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Dispute with former wife over Chobani ownership and initial funding” and “Recall of yoghurt contaminated with mould following reports of consumer illness”.
14 controversies · 23 sources
Business and billionaires
British industrialist, founder and chairman of INEOS, co-owner of Manchester United.
14 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Total Recall Technologies: allegation of misappropriation of VR project, action ultimately closed without ruling on merits” and “ZeniMax v. Oculus: NDA breach found, but trade secret theft rejected and $50 million personal award against Luckey set aside”.
14 controversies · 28 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Deniz Feneri: Erdoğan–Doğan public dispute over media coverage, Hilton and editorial independence” and “Massive tax penalties against Doğan Media: multibillion-lira sanctions amid intense political dispute”.
13 controversies · 33 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Motorola–Nokia/Telsim case: US judgments for fraud and civil racketeering” and “Contempt of court in United Kingdom: 15 months' detention for refusing questioning about assets”.
13 controversies · 22 sources7 convictions
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Persistent Debate over Low Royalties Paid to Artists” and “Discovery Mode: Algorithmic Promotion for Reduced Royalties, Criticised by US Congress”.
13 controversies · 30 sources
Business and billionairesScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2005–2010: no-poaching agreements between Google and other technology companies under his leadership” and “2006: Schmidt defends censored version of Google in China”.
13 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Glencore: corruption and market manipulation during his leadership” and “Prosecution of former Glencore executives for corruption”.
13 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Mannesmann affair: breach of trust trial, acquittal overturned, then proceedings discontinued after 3,2-million-euro payment” and “Victory sign at Mannesmann trial and remark about the debate being 'typically German'”.
13 controversies · 24 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Discrimination Against a Disabled Passenger over Wheelchair Charges” and “Public Clash over Climate Change and Rejection of Carbon Trading”.
13 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionaires
British entrepreneur, founder of Sports Direct and controlling shareholder of Frasers Group, former owner of Newcastle United.
13 controversies · 21 sources
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