Corrupt - Lies That Kill - THE CORPORATIONS

Episode 2: The Corporations shifts focus to systematic corporate fraud, examining four landmark cases that reveal how private companies prioritize profit over people through deliberate deception. The episode dissects Enron's culture of financial manipulation and accounting fraud that erased billions in shareholder value, Volkswagen's sophisticated defeat device programming that cheated emissions tests while poisoning the air, Siemens's decade-long global bribery operation spanning multiple countries and industries, and Wells Fargo's pressure-driven fake accounts scandal that pushed thousands of employees into fraud. Through analysis of internal documents, corporate cultures, and failed oversight systems, the episode exposes common patterns: aggressive targets creating incentives for misconduct, complexity hiding fraud, gatekeepers failing their duties, and punishments rarely matching crimes.
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