of shell firms, which bought poorly performing Enron stocks so that Enron could create a fraudulent company profile and mislead its auditors. Lehman Brothers, in the years before its 2008 collapse, used a smaller firm called Hudson Castle (of which it owned 25 percent) to shift risky investments off its bo

unsel for President-elect Trump? Don McGahn. (McGahn was embroiled in the Tom Delay scandal in the 2000s). Guess who had two companies which had Koch Brothers as investors and whose chief of staff (Chenowith) came from the Koch world? The new CIA- designate chief Mike Pompeo. (Pompeo's Kansas campaign recei

s imagined character is someone like Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane: a rich man with non-existent morals but exquisite taste. Like Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers' last CEO: earlier this month, it took Christie's days to sell off the bank's art collection. Here there is no so such owner: this collection has bee