Breen, who now heads corruption-wracked Tyco, won't talk, but the problems are pretty bad.
Enron defrauded employees and investors, Tyco executed fraudulent acquisition accounting, ZZZZ Best committed forgery and theft.
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Bard and Tyco of creating a monopoly in catheters and Premier and Novation of enabling it.
Tyco (nyse: TYC - news - people ) shareholders weren't invited.
Now Meelia faced a choice: Continue running the business the Tyco way or try something different?
General Electric, with 16, barely beat out Tyco and Wells Fargo for the fourth spot.
Chanos is most well known for correctly calling the accounting scams behind Enron, Tyco and WorldCom.
In that pursuit a joint venture could emerge with Tyco's new undersea-cable vehicle, TyCom Ltd.
"You could hear a pin drop, " says Charles Dockendorff, chief financial officer and another Tyco veteran.
You thought WorldCom and Tyco were masters at sweeping financial facts under the rug.
That said, smart Tyco managers also know when and where to air those disagreements.
As in so many other problem areas of finance, the groundbreaking company was Tyco.
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Ms. Siegel says she recommended the restriction because similar steps by conglomerate Tyco International Ltd.
Tyco hired Gursahaney away from General Electric as vice president of operational excellence.
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Conglomerate Tyco, for example, is bedeviled by an earnings collapse and questions over its byzantine accounting.
Buyers had the opportunity to sell back the securities to Tyco on November 17th 2001.
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Indeed, the latest investigation into Tyco's accounting practices gives it a surprisingly clean bill of health.
Meanwhile, Kozlowski was unloading millions in Tyco stock out the back door without reporting it.
L. Dennis Kozlowski, 55, the CEO of Tyco International, has been riding Harleys since he was 16.
Ultra bombed on spotting management problems at Tyco International, at year-end its second-largest holding (4.3% of assets).
He had an 8:30 a.m. appointment in midtown with Tyco executives, including Dennis Kozlowski, the soon-to-be-disgraced chief.
Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski may have murdered good taste by using company funds for a urinating ice sculpture.
His job was to infuse the gospel of Six Sigma into Tyco management during its post-Koslowski recovery.
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The latest batch of reports Wednesday included stronger-than-expected results from both Target and Tyco International.
The put option was largely ignored, much to the regret of many investors, given Tyco's later nosedive.
Fidelity was Tyco's number two shareholder earlier this year while earning millions running its 401(k), the AFL-CIO found.
One thing is for sure, the US stock market declined on the scandals of Enron, WorldCom and Tyco.
Tyco ( TYC - news - people ) executives, including Dennis Kozlowski, the soon-to-be-disgraced chief.
Today, spreads on five-year Tyco bonds have blown out to 500 basis points, and ten-year bonds to 400.
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