Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nature of honesty : exploring examples of the literacy hoax in America / Nancy M. Shelton -- Price adjustments under the table / Daniel Levy -- Charles Ponzi / Steven Pressman -- Farm-town boy to international fugitive / Patrick Kuhse ... [et al.] -- Oscar Hartzell and the estate of Sir Francis Drake / Steven Pressman -- A concrete example of fraud at the Fort Worth Independent School District / Arnold J. Barkman -- My (s)old Kentucky home : the Erpenbeck homebuilder case / James Cashell, Brian Ballou, and Dan L. Heitger -- ZZZZ Best : taking investors to the cleaners / Trish Isaacs -- The city slickers share price scam / Paul Barnes -- Martin Frankel / Steven Pressman -- Human experimentation involving radiation, syphilis, and scurvy / Matthew T. Lee and Jeannine A. Gailey -- Doctoring the data : ethical failures in medical research / Kevin L. Sisemore -- From fraud to Holocaust : The protocols of the elders of Zion / Christopher J. Ferguson -- The China aviation oil scandal / Kevin T. Jackson -- The SH oil and gas exploration scandal / Philip R. Murray -- The Spanish cooking-oil scandal : toxic oil syndrome or cover-up? / James P. Johnson -- Adelphia Communications: the public company that became a private piggy bank: a case of fraud in the Rigas family firm / Roland E. Kidwell -- High stakes and high energy at Enron: the meteoric rise and fall of the "Crooked E" / Stephen F. Hallam, Roger C. Mayer -- The inside story of the Parmalat scandal: family leadership gone wrong in a multinational group / Bahram Soltani, Flora Soltani -- Royal Ahold: leadership failure and "Big Bath" accounting / Bahram Soltani, Flora Soltani -- The Vivendi debacle: the fallen superstar / Bahram Soltani, Flora Soltani -- The fall of a giant: the case of Arthur Andersen & Co. / Bonita K. Peterson Kramer, Christie W. Johnson -- The fall of San Diego / Dwight V. Denison, Jonica L. Burke -- United Airlines: pensions, profits and ethics / Richard H. Fern, Judith W. Spain -- The HealthSouth family / Fannie L. Malone, Richard Pitre -- Richard Scrushy: the rise and fall of the "King of Health Care" / Steven A. Solieri, Andrew J. Felo, Joan Hodowanitz -- See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil: Ernst & Young's ethical responsibility for the HealthSouth fraud / Steven A. Solieri, Andrew J. Felo, Joan Hodowanitz.