Crime and the Culture of Business

Crime and the Culture of Business

Earlier this year the morality of American business again became a hot public issue as one scandal after another hit the headlines. “Old-line manufacturers exposed cheating the Pentagon. Venerable banks caught laundering money. A securities firm found fraudulently kiting checks. Once respected businessmen and former government officials indicted— and jailed—for insider trading and fraud.” (New York Times, June 9, 1985.)