corporate fraud

MoviePass, MovieCrash is an HBO documentary film about the rise and collapse of MoviePass and the federal fraud charges filed against executives Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth.

The Three Mile Island accident is the most serious nuclear reactor disaster in U.S. history, a partial core meltdown at a Pennsylvania plant on March 28, 1979, that triggered a corporate cover-up prosecution.

Steinheist is a Showmax documentary series about the Steinhoff International accounting scandal, the largest corporate fraud in South African history, wiping out R200 billion in shareholder value.

Securities fraud case involving MoviePass executives Theodore Farnsworth and J. Mitchell Lowe, who deceived investors about the sustainability of the company's $9.95 unlimited subscription model.

The Opioid Crisis Case refers to Purdue Pharma's 2020 federal guilty plea in New Jersey for conspiracy and kickback offenses tied to deceptive opioid marketing across the United States.

Wirecard CEO Markus Braun was arrested when the fraud came to light in June 2020. His deputy Jan Marsalek disappeared and remains sought by Interpol.

A Danish podcast series examines the case of Britta Nielsen, a 65-year-old former employee of Denmark's National Board of Social Services who embezzled 117 million Danish kroner over 25 years. Released in February 2021, the podcast explores one of Denmark's most serious economic crimes—a stark contrast to the Nordic nation's reputation as the world's least corrupt country.

A Michigan prisoner managed to trick American courts into awarding him a $100 million settlement against rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs—entirely based on fabricated claims. A new seven-part investigative podcast now reveals how the elaborate fraud unraveled.

Virginia Giuffre, recruited as a minor into Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking ring by Ghislaine Maxwell, became the first victim to publicly expose the network in 2011. Over the following decade, she pursued multiple settlements and legal actions that unsealed court documents and implicated powerful figures—before her death by suicide in April 2025.

In July 2015, hackers calling themselves "The Impact Team" breached Ashley Madison, a website marketed for extramarital affairs, stealing personal data from approximately 37 million users across 40 countries. The incident exposed not only intimate details but also widespread corporate deception that defined the scandal.

In the early hours of May 20, 2010, Franco-Serbian burglar Vjeran Tomic broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and stole five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Léger — in what became one of the most notorious art thefts in modern European criminal history.

On August 14, 1962, robbers dressed as police officers stopped a U.S. Postal Service armored truck on Route 3 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and made off with $1.5 million in cash. Six decades later, the money remains missing and no one has ever been convicted.

Todd and Julie Chrisley, known from American reality television, were convicted in 2022 of systematic bank fraud exceeding $30 million and federal tax evasion by a federal court in Atlanta.

On March 20, 1995, members of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin nerve gas on five Tokyo Metro trains during morning rush hour, killing 12-14 people and injuring thousands. The attack, ordered by cult leader Shoko Asahara, remains one of history's deadliest terror incidents and the first major chemical weapons attack on a civilian population.