 Articles : Scams & Scoundrels
Great corporate scams of the last 20 years ranging from Rene Rivkin and the mysterious death of a model to a racket in growing truffles, from the collapse of Australia's biggest insurance company to internet gambling, a $60 million sting on a Swiss bank and a child-sex coverup on a remote Pacific island.
One of Australia's biggest maternity hospitals asked to explain
The extraordinary story of the King brothers.
Hundreds of investors believed in it, and lost $400 million.
Mexican businessman Carlos Cabal flees to Australia after his $1.5 billion empire collapses, ends up doing an interview in jail.
No third airport for Sydney, but a lot of very happy land-owners.
A little-known side-light to the collapse of HIH, Australia's biggest corporate bankruptcy.
How the victims of crime compensation scheme is rorted.
Ted Sent, ex-bankrupt with a shady past, has the lives of thousands of old people in nursing homes in his hands.
The link between crooked stockbroker Rene Rivkin and the tragic death of a model.
Johnson Wang floats Eisa, a high-tech company, then flees when it collapses.
How one of the world's biggest companies avoids accountability for industrial disasters.
How Pacific Power lost $9 million one hot afternoon on the national power grid.
How a Kiwi banker dudded Australian investors out of $72 million (1/2 stories).
A royal commission into the police reveals scores of criminals may have been falsely convicted on perjured evidence.
An examination of how the gun lobby bribes political parties.
How a tribe of native Canadians got a jump on the world.
How a scamster conned a cover-story in Good Weekend.
 Mr Bubbles {2 articles}How false accusations of child sex abuse destroyed the lives of an innocent couple.
Norfolk Island’s Pacific idyll turns to horror story after the local pastor is convicted of sex crimes.
How Village Roadshow was scammed of millions.
How a charity aimed at saving kids from SIDS failed to account for its money.
How Kroll's boss in Brazil escaped a police dragnet and finished up in Australia.
He got off to a good start, duding everyone, including his wife whose sister he installed in a love-nest down the road.
How scores of Sydney home-improvers were dudded.
- in spite of the fact that the environmental impact statement (like many others) was fatally flawed.
John Wayne Glover murdered his last victim while bungling police sat outside in a car.
How charities rip you off, spending most of your money on everything except the worthy cause.
A severed goat's head signals the end of Sydney's oldest ethnic club.
How crooks and con-men wrecked a little Gippsland credit union.
How council bungling cost residents of a Sydney suburb dearly.
How the Swiss Banking Corporation was defrauded of $70 million, which finished up paying off the creditors of a battling Australian businessman, Malcolm Edwards.
Two decades after Australia's first act of terrorism the finger still points at a wacky religious cult, Ananda Marga.
Synroc was supposed to be the answer to nuclear waste disposal - instead it made one man very rich.
Incompetent plods, or dangerous destroyers of civil liberty? Two stories which turn our secretive super-cops inside out.
Gary Kilpatrick, master hypnotist, winds up in jail after the spell broke and his empire fell into ruins.
A fake cancer cure that kills kids.
A body in the mountains, missing millions, contested wills, gay lovers - it became a book (and should be a movie)
Not another agricultural con ! This time it's black truffles.
How ASIC, our corporate watchdog, did nothing while a con-man robbed investors of $20 million on bonds in a banktupt railway.
Malcolm Edwards loses $1 billion, then bounces back for more.
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