These are the Secret Combinations (aka Multinational
Corporations)
that prey on innocent
Americans. These are the 'THUGS' who own
America and continue their
evil year after year... (with Congress and and
the courts blessings...)
Report: The 14 Most Evil Corporations
These Profiteers are guilty of commiting atrocities (war
crimes,
torture, toxic dumping and stifling freedom of speech)
against
mankind in the name of Greed.
Here’s the LowDown on these Prophets of
Profit.
Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human
rights
abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult
to hold them
to account. Economic globalization and the rise of
transnational
corporate power have created a favorable climate for
corporate
human rights abusers, which are governed principally by
the
codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only
to
their stockholders.
Several of the companies below are being sued under the
Alien
Tort Claims Act, a law that allows citizens of any
nationality to
sue in US federal courts for violations of international
rights or
treaties. When corporations act like criminals, we have
the right
and the power to stop them, holding leaders and
multinational
corporations alike to the accords they have signed.
Around the
world—in Venezuela, Argentina, India, and right here in
the
United States—citizens are stepping up to create
democracy
and hold corporations accountable to international
law.
Caterpillar
For years, the Caterpillar Company has provided Israel
with
the bulldozers used to destroy Palestinian homes.
Despite
worldwide condemnation, Caterpillar has refused to end
its
corporate participation house demolition by cutting off
sales
of specially modified D9 and D10 bulldozers to the
Israeli
military.
In a letter to Caterpillar CEO James Owens, The Office
of the
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said: “allowing the
delivery of your … bulldozers to the Israeli army … in
the
certain knowledge that they are being used for such
action,
might involve complicity or acceptance on the part of
your
company to actual and potential violations of human
rights…”
Peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by a Caterpillar
D-9,
military bulldozer in 2003. She was run over while
attempting
to block the destruction a family’s home in Gaza. Her
family
filed suit against Caterpillar in March 2005 charging
that
Caterpillar knowingly sold machines used to violate
human
rights. Since Corrie’s death at least three more
Palestinians
have been killed in their homes by Israeli bulldozer
demolitions.
Chevron
The petrochemical company Chevron is guilty of some of
the
worst environmental and human rights abuses in the
world.
From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (which transferred operations
to
Chevron after being bought out in 2001) unleashed a
toxic
“Rainforest Chernobyl” in Ecuador by leaving over 600
unlined
oil pits in pristine northern Amazon rainforest and
dumping
18 billion gallons of toxic production water into rivers
used for
bathing water. Local communities have suffered severe
health
effects, including cancer, skin lesions, birth defects,
and
spontaneous abortions.
Chevron is also responsible for the violent repression
of
peaceful opposition to oil extraction. In Nigeria,
Chevron
has hired private military personnel to open fire on
peaceful
protestors who oppose oil extraction in the Niger
Delta.
Additionally Chevron is responsible for widespread
health
problems in Richmond, California, where one of Chevron’s
largest refineries is located. Processing 350,000
barrels of
oil a day, the Richmond refinery produces oil flares and
toxic
waste in the Richmond area. As a result, local residents
suffer from high rates of lupus, skin rashes, rheumatic
fever,
liver problems, kidney problems, tumors, cancer, asthma,
and eye problems.
The Unocal Corporation, which recently became a
subsidiary
of Chevron, is an oil and gas company based in
California with
operations around the world. In December 2004, the
company
settled a lawsuit filed by 15 Burmese villagers, in
which the
villagers alleged Unocal’s complicity in a range of
human rights
violations in Burma, including rape, summary execution,
torture,
forced labor and forced migration.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company is perhaps the most widely recognized
corporate symbol on the planet. The company also leads
in
the abuse of workers’ rights, assassinations, water
privatization,
and worker discrimination. Between 1989 and 2002, eight
union
leaders from Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia were
killed
after protesting the company’s labor practices. Hundreds
of
other Coca-Cola workers who have joined or considered
joining
the Colombian union SINALTRAINAL have been kidnapped,
tortured, and detained by paramilitaries who are hired
to
intimidate workers to prevent them from
unionizing.
In India, Coca-Cola destroys local agriculture by
privatizing
the country’s water resources. In Plachimada, Kerala,
Coca-Cola
extracted 1.5 million liters of deep well water, which
they bottled
and sold under the names Dasani and BonAqua. The
groundwater
was severely depleted, affecting thousands of
communities with
water shortages and destroying agricultural activity. As
a result,
the remaining water became contaminated with high
chloride
and bacteria levels, leading to scabs, eye problems, and
stomach
aches in the local population.
Coca-Cola is also one of the most discriminatory
employers in
the world. In the year 2000, 2,000 African-American
employees
in the U.S. sued the company for race-based disparities
in pay
and promotions.
Dow Chemical
Dow Chemical has been destroying lives and poisoning the
planet
for decades. The company is best known for the ravages
and
health disaster for millions of Vietnamese and U.S.
Veterans
caused by its lethal Vietnam War defoliant, Agent
Orange.
Dow also developed and perfected Napalm, a brutal
chemical
weapon that burned many innocents to death in Vietnam
and
other wars. In 1988, Dow provided pesticides to Saddam
Hussein
despite warnings that they could be used to produce
chemical
weapons.
In 2001, Dow inherited the toxic legacy of the worst
peacetime
chemical disaster in history when it acquired Union
Carbide
Corporation (UCC) and its outstanding liabilities in
Bhopal,
India. On Dec. 3, 1984, a chemical leak from a UCC
pesticide
plant in Bhopal gassed thousands of people to death and
left
more than 150,000 disabled or dying. Dow still refuses
to
address its liabilities in Bhopal.
Dow Chemical’s impact is felt globally from its Midland,
Michigan headquarters to New Plymouth, New Zealand.
In Midland, Dow has been producing chlorinated chemicals
and burning and burying its waste including chemicals
that
make up Agent Orange. In New Plymouth, 500,000 gallons
of Agent Orange were produced and thousands of tons of
dioxin-laced waste was dumped in agricultural
fields.
DynCorp
Private security contractors have become the
fastest-growing
sector of the global economy during the last decade—a
$100-billion-a-year, nearly unregulated industry.
DynCorp,
one of the providers of these mercenary services,
demonstrates
the industry’s power and potential to abuse human
rights.
While guarding Afghan statesmen and African oil fields,
training Iraqi police forces, eradicating Colombian coca
plants, and protecting business interests in
hurricane-
devastated New Orleans, these hired guns bolster the
security of governments and organizations at the expense
of many people’s human rights.
DynCorp’s fumigation of coca crops along the
Colombian-
Ecuadorian border led Ecuadorian peasants to sue DynCorp
in 2001. Plaintiffs argued that DynCorp knew—or should
have known—that the herbicides were highly
toxic.
In 2001, a mechanic with DynCorp blew the whistle on
DynCorp employees in Bosnia for rape and trading girls
as young as 12 into sex slavery. According to a lawsuit
filed by the mechanic, “employees and supervisors were
engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior
[and]
were purchasing illegal weapons, women, [and] forged
passports.” DynCorp fired the whistleblower and
transferred
the employees accused of sex trading out of the country,
eventually firing some. None were
prosecuted.
Ford Motor Company
Among automakers, Ford Motor Company is the worst.
Every year since 1999, the US Environmental Protection
Agency has ranked Ford cars, trucks and SUVs as having
the worst overall fuel economy of any American
automaker.
Ford’s current car and truck fleet has a lower average
fuel
efficiency than the original Ford Model-T.
Ford is also in last place when it comes to vehicle
greenhouse
gas emissions. According to a recent report by the Union
of
Concerned Scientists, Ford has “the absolute worst
heat-
trapping gas emissions performance of all the Big Six
automakers.”
Despite the company’s recent greenwashing PR campaign,
its record has actually worsened. According to Ford’s
own
sustainability report, between 2003 and 2004, the
company’s
US fleet-wide fuel economy decreased and its CO2
emissions
went up. Ford has also lobbied against lawmakers’
efforts to
increase fuel economy standards at the national level
and is
also involved in a lawsuit against California’s fuel
economy
standards.
KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root): A Subsidiary of
Halliburton
Corporation
KBR is a private company that provides military support
services. Notorious for its questionable bookkeeping,
dishonest
billing practices with US taxpayer dollars and no-bid
contracts,
KBR has violated human rights on the U.S.
dollar.
KBR’s dubious accounting in Iraq came to light in
December
2003 when Pentagon auditors questioned possible
overcharges
for imported gasoline. In June 2005, a previously secret
Pentagon audit criticized $1.4 billion in “questioned”
and
“unsupported” expenditures. In 2002 the company paid
$2 million to settle a Justice Department lawsuit that
accused
KBR of inflating contract prices at Fort Ord,
California.
Many third-country national (TCN) laborers have been
hired
by KBR to “rebuild” Iraq. Generally hailing from
impoverished
Asian countries, they have unexpectedly become part of
the
largest civilian workforce ever hired in support of a
U.S. war.
Once abroad, the workers find themselves with few
protections
and uncertain legal status. TCNs often sleep in crowded
trailers
and wait outside in scorching heat for food rations.
Many lack
adequate medical care and put in hard labor seven days a
week,
10 hours or more a day.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest military
contractor.
Providing satellites, planes, missiles and other lethal
high-tech
items to the Pentagon keeps the profits rolling in.
Since 2000,
the year Bush was elected, the company’s stock value has
tripled.
notes, it is no coincidence that Lockheed VP Bruce
Jackson—who
helped draft the Republican foreign policy platform in
2000—is
a key player at the Project for a New American Century,
the
intellectual incubator of the Iraq war.
Lockheed Martin is not the only defense contractor that
goes
behind the scenes to influence public policy, but it is
one of the
worst. Stephen J. Hadley, who now has Condoleeza Rice’s
old
job as Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs,
was formerly a partner in a DC law firm representing
Lockheed
Martin. He is only one of the beneficiaries of the
so-called
revolving door between the military industries and the
“civilian”
national security apparatus. These war profiteers have a
profound and illegitimate influence on our country’s
international
policy decisions.
Monsanto
Monsanto is, by far, the largest producer of genetically
engineered seeds in the world, dominating 70% to 100% of
the market for crops such as soy, cotton, wheat and
corn.
Monsanto is the world’s leading producer of the
herbicide
glyphosate, marketed as Roundup. Roundup is sold to
small
farmers as a pesticide, yet harms crops in the long run
as the
toxins accumulate in the soil. Plants eventually become
infertile,
forcing farmers to purchase genetically modified Roundup
Ready Seed, a seed that resists the herbicide. This
creates a
cycle of dependency on Monsanto for both the weed killer
and the only seed that can resist it. Both products are
patented,
and sold at inflated prices. Exposure to the pesticide
is
documented to cause cancers, skin disorders, spontaneous
abortions, premature births, and damage to the
gastrointestinal
and nervous systems.
According to the India Committee of the Netherlands and
the
International Labor Rights Fund, Monsanto also employs
child
labor. In India, an estimated 12,375 children work in
cottonseed
production for farmers paid by Indian and multinational
seed
companies, including Monsanto.
Nestle USA
The problem of illegal and forced child labor is rampant
in the
chocolate industry, because more than 40% of the world’s
cocoa
supply comes from the Ivory Coast, a country that the US
State
Department estimates had approximately 109,000 child
laborers
working in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms. In 2001,
Save
the Children Canada reported that 15,000 children
between 9
and 12 years old, many from impoverished Mali, had been
tricked or sold into slavery on West African cocoa
farms, many
for just $30 each.
Nestle, the third largest buyer of cocoa from the Ivory
Coast, is
well aware of the tragically unjust labor practices
taking place
on the farms with which it continues to do business.
Nestle and
other chocolate manufacturers agreed to end the use of
abusive
and forced child labor on cocoa farms by July 1, 2005,
but they
failed to do so.
Nestle is also notorious for its aggressive marketing of
infant
formula in poor countries in the 1980s. Because of this
practice,
Nestle is still one of the most boycotted corporations
in the world,
and its infant formula is still controversial. In Italy
in 2005, police
seized more than two million liters of Nestle infant
formula that
was contaminated with the chemical isopropylthioxanthone
(ITX).
Additionally, violations of labor rights are reported
from Nestle
factories in numerous countries. In Colombia, Nestle
replaced
the entire factory staff with lower-wage workers and did
not
renew the collective employment contract.
Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris International
(a.k.a.
The Altria Group Inc.)
Among tobacco companies, Philip Morris is notorious. Now
called
Altria, it is the world’s largest and most profitable
cigarette
corporation and maker of Marlboro, Virginia Slims,
Parliament,
Basic and many other brands of cigarettes.
Documents uncovered in a lawsuit filed against the
tobacco industry
by the state of Minnesota showed that Philip Morris and
other
leading tobacco corporations knew very well of the
dangers of
tobacco products and the addictiveness of nicotine. To
this day,
Philip Morris deceives consumers about the harm of its
products
by offering light, mild and low-tar cigarettes that give
consumers
the illusion these brands are “healthier” than
traditional cigarettes.
Although the company says it doesn’t want kids to smoke,
it
spends millions of dollars every day marketing and
promoting
cigarettes to youth. Overseas, it has even hired
underage “Marlboro
girls” to distribute free cigarettes to other children
and sponsored
concerts where cigarettes were handed out to
minors.
As anti-tobacco campaigns and government regulations are
slowing
tobacco use in Western countries, Philip Morris has
aggressively
moved into developing country markets, where smoking and
smoking-related deaths are on the rise. Preliminary
numbers
released by the World Health Organization predict global
deaths
due to smoking-related illnesses will nearly double by
2020, with
more than three-quarters of those deaths in the
developing world.
Pfizer
Pfizer is the largest pharmaceutical company in the
world; it is
also one of the worst abusers of the human right of
universal
access to HIV/AIDS medicine.
In addition to Viagra, Zoloft, Zithromax and Norvasc,
Pfizer
produces the drug fluconazole (an antifungal used by
AIDS
patients) under the name Diflucan, and sells it at
inflated prices
most poor people cannot afford. The company refuses to
grant
generic licenses of fluconazole to governments in
countries like
Brazil, South Africa, or Dominican Republic, where
patients are
forced to pay $20 per weekly pill, though the average
national
wage is only $120 per month.
Pfizer also values shareholder profits over safety
standards. In
Europe in 2005, it withdrew from scientific studies of a
new
class of AIDS drugs called CCR5 inhibitors, choosing
instead to
rush its own untested CCR5 inhibitor onto the European
market
without full information about the drug’s side
effects.
Suez-Lyonnaise Des Eaux (SLDE)
The privatization of water has had a disastrous impact
on
the human right to clean water, and the French company
Suez
is the worst perpetrator of this abuse. The company’s
billions
of dollars in profit come at the expense of poor people
living in
countries where thousands lack access to potable water,
and,
because of private water contracts, are also facing
skyrocketing
water prices.
Suez goes by many names around the world—Ondeo, SITA and
others—to mask its worldwide net of controversial
activities. In
Manila, Philippines, after seven years of water
privatization under
a Suez company (Maynilad Water) contract, studies showed
that
water rates increased in some neighborhoods by 400 to
700
percent. These studies also showed that the negligence
of the
company resulted in cholera and gastroenteritis
outbreaks that
killed six people and severely sickened 725 in Manila’s
Tondo
district.
In Bolivia, a Suez company (Aguas de Illimani) left
200,000
people without access to water and caused a revolt when
it tried
to charge between $335 and $445 to connect a private
home to
the water supply. Countless people were unable to afford
this
charge in a country whose yearly per capita GDP is
$915.
Unfortunately, the IMF and World Bank are playing a key
role
in pushing water privatization all over the world. Many
countries
have been required to open up their water supply to
private
companies as a condition for receiving IMF loans, and
the World
Bank has approved millions of dollars in loans for the
privatization
of water systems.
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is the biggest corporation in the world. It
owns 5,100
stores worldwide and employs 1.3 million workers in the
United
States and 400,000 abroad, as well as millions more in
the
factories of its suppliers.
Many people have heard of the way that Wal-Mart
steamrolls its
way into every possible town, destroying local
supermarkets and
countless small businesses. We have also heard about
Wal-Mart’s l
ong track record of worker abuse, from forced overtime
to sex
discrimination to illegal child labor to relentless
union busting.
Wal-Mart also notoriously fails to provide health
insurance to
over half of its employees, who are then left to rely on
themselves
or taxpayers, who provide for a portion of their
healthcare needs
through government Medicaid.
Less well known is the fact that Wal-Mart maintains its
low price
level by allowing substandard labor conditions at the
overseas
factories producing most of its goods. The company
continually
demands lower prices from its suppliers, who, in turn,
make
more outrageous and abusive demands on their workers in
order
to meet Wal-Mart’s requirements.
In September 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund
filed a
lawsuit on behalf of Wal-Mart supplier sweatshop workers
in
China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and Swaziland.
The
workers were denied minimum wages, forced to work
overtime
without compensation, and were denied legally mandated
health
care. Other worker rights violations that have been
found in
foreign factories that produce goods for Wal-Mart
include locked
bathrooms, starvation wages, pregnancy tests, denial of
access
to health care, and workers being fired and blacklisted
if they
try to defend their rights.
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Most Wanted
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<snip>
There is also a 100 worst multinational corporation
list. I think it is
just a partial list. It should include PG&E,
CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC...But
it doesn't. Here is the top CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS
OF THE
1990'S:
THE TOP 100 CORPORATE CRIMINALS OF THE
1990's
1) F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $500 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 21(1),
May 24, 1999
2) Daiwa Bank Ltd.
Type of Crime:
Financial
Criminal Fine: $340 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 9(3),
March 4, 1996
3) BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $225 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 21(1),
May 24, 1999
4) SGL Carbon Aktiengesellschaft (SGL AG)
Type of
Crime: Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $135 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter
19(4), May 10, 1999
5) Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $125 million
5 Corporate Crime
Reporter 11(3), March 18, 1991
6) UCAR International, Inc.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $110 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 15(6),
April 13, 1998
7) Archer Daniels Midland
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $100 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 40(1),
October 21, 1996
8)(tie) Banker's Trust
Type of Crime:
Financial
Criminal Fine: $60 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 11(1),
March 15, 1999
8)(tie) Sears Bankruptcy Recovery Management
Services
Type of Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $60 million
13 Corporate
Crime Reporter 7(1), February 15, 1999
10) Haarman & Reimer Corp.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal fine: $50 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter 5(4),
February 3, 1997
11) Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $37 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter
23(1), June 8, 1998
12) Hoechst AG
Type of Crime: Antitrust
Criminal
Fine: $36 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 19(6), May 10,
1999
13) Damon Clinical Laboratories, Inc.
Type of Crime:
Fraud
Criminal Fine: $35.2 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 39(6),
October 14, 1996
14) C.R. Bard Inc.
Type of Crime: Food and
drug
Criminal Fine: $30.9 million
7 Corporate Crime Reporter 41(1),
October 25, 1993
15) Genentech Inc.
Type of Crime: Food and
drug
Criminal Fine: $30 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 16(3), April
19, 1999
16) Nippon Gohsei
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $21 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 29(3),
July 19, 1999
17)(tie) Pfizer Inc.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $20 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(1),
July 26, 1999
17)(tie) Summitville Consolidated Mining Co.
Inc.
Type of Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $20 million
10
Corporate Crime Reporter 20(3) May 20, 1996
19)(tie) Lucas Western Inc.
Type of Crime: False
Statements
Criminal Fine: $18.5 million
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 4(6),
January 30, 1995
19)(tie) Rockwell International Corporation
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $18.5 million
6 Corporate Crime
Reporter 13(4), March 30, 1992
21) Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $18 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter
30(4), July 26, 1999
22) Teledyne Industries Inc.
Type of Crime:
Fraud
Criminal Fine: $17.5 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter 39(9),
October 12, 1992
23) Northrop
Type of Crime: False
statements
Criminal Fine: $17 million
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 9(1),
March 5, 1990
24) Litton Applied Technology Division (ATD) and Litton
Systems Canada (LSL)
Type of Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $16.5
million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 27(1), July 5, 1999
25) Iroquois Pipeline Operating Company
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $15 million
10 Corporate Crime
Reporter 22(1), June 3, 1996
26) Eastman Chemical Company
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $11 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 38(5),
October 5, 1998
27) Copley Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Type of Crime: Food
and drug
Criminal Fine: $10.65 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter 22(1),
June 2, 1997
28) Lonza AG
Type of Crime: Antitrust
Criminal
Fine: $10.5 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 10(1), March 8,
1999
29) Kimberly Home Health Care Inc.
Type of Crime:
Fraud
Criminal Fine: $10.08 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(6),
July 26, 1999
30)(tie) Ajinomoto Co. Inc.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $10 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 40(1),
October 21, 1996
30)(tie) Bank of Credit and Commerce International
(BCCI)
Type of Crime: Financial
Criminal Fine: $10 million
4 Corporate
Crime Reporter 3(1) January 22, 1990
30)(tie) Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $10 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 40(1),
October 21, 1996
30)(tie) Warner-Lambert Company
Type of Crime: Food
and drug
Criminal Fine: $10 million
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 46(1),
December 4, 1995
34) General Electric
Type of Crime: Fraud
Criminal
Fine: $9.5 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(7), July 27,
1992
35)(tie) Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $9 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 23(3),
June 8, 1998
35)(tie) Showa Denko Carbon
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $9 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 19(4), May
10, 1999
37) IBM East Europe/Asia Ltd.
Type of Crime: Illegal
exports
Criminal Fine: $8.5 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 32(1),
August 10, 1998
38) Empire Sanitary Landfill Inc.
Type of crime:
Campaign finance
Criminal fine: $8 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter
39(3), October 13, 1997
39)(tie) Colonial Pipeline Company
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $7 million
13 Corporate Crime Reporter 9(3),
March 1, 1999
39)(tie) Eklof Marine Corporation
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $7 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter 37(4),
September 29, 1997
41)(tie) Chevron
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $6.5 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter,
22(1), June 1, 1992
41)(tie) Rockwell International Corporation
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $6.5 million
10 Corporate Crime
Reporter 15(4), April 15, 1996
43) Tokai Carbon Ltd. Co.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $6 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 19(4), May
10, 1999
44)(tie) Allied Clinical Laboratories, Inc.
Type of
Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $5 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 45(1),
November 25, 1996
44)(tie) Northern Brands International Inc.
Type of
Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $5 million
13 Corporate Crime Reporter 1(1),
January 4,1999
44)(tie) Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
Type of
Crime: Obstruction of justice
Criminal Fine: $5 million
9 Corporate Crime
Reporter 2(3), January 16, 1995
44)(tie) Unisys
Type of Crime: Bribery
Criminal
Fine: $5 million
5 Corporate Crime Reporter 35(11), September 16,
1991
44)(tie) Georgia Pacific Corporation
Type of Crime:
Tax evasion
Criminal Fine: $5 million
5 Corporate Crime Reporter 38(8),
October 7, 1991
49) Kanzaki Specialty Papers Inc.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $4.5 million
8 Corporate Crime Reporter 29(4),
July 18, 1994
50) ConAgra Inc.
Type of Crime: Fraud
Criminal
Fine: $4.4 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter 12(1), March 24,
1997
51) Ryland Mortgage Company
Type of Crime:
Financial
Criminal Fine: $4.2 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 32(1),
August 10, 1998
52)(tie) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Type of
Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $4 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 29(1),
July 20, 1998
52)(tie) Borden Inc.
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $4 million
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 11(9),
March 19, 1990
52)(tie) Dexter Corporation
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $4 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter 35(6),
September 14, 1992
52)(tie) Southland Corporation
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $4 million
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 11(9),
March 19, 1990
52)(tie) Teledyne Industries Inc.
Type of Crime:
Illegal exports
Criminal Fine: $4 million
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 5(3),
February 6, 1995
52)(tie) Tyson Foods Inc.
Type of Crime: Public
corruption
Criminal Fine: $4 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 1(3),
January 5, 1998
58)(tie) Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA)
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3.75 million
5 Corporate Crime
Reporter 29(6), July 22, 1991
58)(tie) Costain Coal Inc.
Type of Crime: Worker
Death
Criminal Fine: $3.75 million
7 Corporate Crime Reporter 9(10), March
1, 1993
58)(tie) United States Sugar Corporation
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3.75 million
5 Corporate Crime
Reporter 27(4), December 9, 1991
61) Saybolt, Inc., Saybolt North America
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3.4 million
12 Corporate Crime
Reporter 33(1), August 17, 1998
62)(tie) Bristol-Myers Squibb
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter 18(3),
May 4, 1992
62)(tie) Chemical Waste Management Inc.
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter
40(5), October 19, 1992
62)(tie) Ketchikan Pulp Company
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3 million
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 13(1),
April 3, 1995
62)(tie) United Technologies Corporation
Type of
Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3 million
5 Corporate Crime Reporter
21(1), May 27, 1991
62)(tie) Warner-Lambert Inc.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $3 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter 37(3),
September 29, 1997
67)(tie) Arizona Chemical Co. Inc.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $2.5 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter
39(5), October 14, 1996
67)(tie) Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
Type
of Crime: Environmental
Criminal Fine: $2.5 million
9 Corporate Crime
Reporter 30(1), July 31, 1995
69) International Paper
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $2.2 million
5 Corporate Crime Reporter
31(7), August 5, 1991
70)(tie) Consolidated Edison Company
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $2 million
8 Corporate Crime Reporter 46(5),
November 28, 1994
70)(tie) Crop Growers Corporation
Type of Crime:
Campaign finance
Criminal fine: $2 million
11 Corporate Crime Reporter
4(3), January 27, 1997
70)(tie) E-Systems Inc.
Type of Crime:
Fraud
Criminal Fine: $2 million
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 33, September
3, 1990
70)(tie) HAL Beheer BV
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $2 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 39(4),
October 12, 1998
70)(tie) John Morrell and Company
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $2 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 6(3),
February 12, 1996
70)(tie) United Technologies Corporation
Type of
Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $2 million
6 Corporate Crime Reporter 34(4),
September 7, 1992
76) Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi International
Corporation
Type of Crime: Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $1.8 million
8
Corporate Crime Reporter 29(4), July 18, 1994
77)(tie) Blue Shield of California
Type of Crime:
Fraud
Criminal Fine: $1.5 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 18(3), May
6, 1996
77)(tie) Browning-Ferris Inc.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $1.5 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter
23(3), June 8, 1998
77)(tie) Odwalla Inc.
Type of Crime: Food and
drug
Criminal Fine: $1.5 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(1), July
27, 1998
77)(tie) Teledyne Inc.
Type of Crime: False
statements
Criminal Fine: $1.5 million
7 Corporate Crime Reporter 34(12),
September 6, 1993
77)(tie) Unocal Corporation
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $1.5 million
8 Corporate Crime Reporter
12(8), March 21, 1994
82)(tie) Doyon Drilling Inc.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $1 million
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 21(1),
May 25, 1998
82)(tie) Eastman Kodak
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $1 million
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 14(1),
April 9, 1990
82)(tie) Case Corporation
Type of Crime: Illegal
exports
Criminal Fine: $1 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 22(4), June
3, 1996
85) Marathon Oil
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $900,000
5 Corporate Crime Reporter 22(5),
June 3, 1991
86) Hyundai Motor Company
Type of Crime: Campaign
finance
Criminal Fine: $600,000
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 48(3), December
18, 1995
87)(tie) Baxter International Inc.
Type of Crime:
Illegal Boycott
Criminal Fine: $500,000
7 Corporate Crime Reporter 13(7) ,
March 29, 1993
87)(tie) Bethship-Sabine Yard
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $500,000
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 26(4),
July 3, 1995
87(tie) Palm Beach Cruises
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $500,000
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(4),
July 26, 1999
87)(tie) Princess Cruises Inc.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $500,000
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(4),
July 26, 1999
91)(tie) Cerestar Bioproducts BV
Type of Crime:
Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $400,000
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 28(3), June
29, 1998
91)(tie) Sun-Land Products of California
Type of
Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $400,000
12 Corporate Crime
Reporter 33(1), August 17, 1998
93)(tie) American Cyanamid
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $250,000
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 46(5),
December 3, 1990
93)(tie) Korean Air Lines
Type of Crime: Campaign
finance
Criminal Fine: $250,000
9 Corporate Crime Reporter 47(1), December
11, 1995
93)(tie) Regency Cruises Inc.
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $250,000
12 Corporate Crime Reporter 30(4),
July 26, 1999
96)(tie) Adolph Coors Company
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $200,000
4 Corporate Crime Reporter 43(3),
November 12, 1990
96)(tie) Andrew and Williamson Sales Co.
Type of
crime: Food and drug
Criminal fine: $200,000
11 Corporate Crime Reporter
44(4), November 17, 1997
96)(tie) Daewoo International (America)
Corporation
Type of Fine: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $200,000
10
Corporate Crime Reporter 13(3), April 1, 1996
96)(tie) Exxon Corporation
Type of Crime:
Environmental
Criminal Fine: $200,000
5 Corporate Crime Reporter 12(1),
March 25, 1991
100) Samsung America Inc.
Type of Crime: Campaign
finance
Criminal Fine: $150,000
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 6(5), February
12, 1996
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