Year of the Unlucky

• 1998: Enron's Ken Lay: Who needs ethics when you_goals can just cook the books?
• 2001: WorldCom's Scott Sullivan: Who needs a functioning accounting system, anyway?
• 2002: WorldCom's Scott Sullivan: Still with the accounting thing, no?
• 2008: Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld: Who needs to actually understand the economy when you can just der minimalist the risk?
• 2011: News Corp's Rupert Murdoch: Phone hacking: it's not just for politicians any more!
• 2014: Toshiba's Kazuhiro Okumura: We'll just make it all up and pretend we're still in the ประก
• 2020: Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi: Who needs regulation when you can just strong-arm your way to the top?

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