Executive Jerks

Sometimes it takes just one person to ruin a good cause.
Sellathurai Jeyanesan, an agent for the non-profit aid organization VeAhavta, was arrested in Sri Lanka last week for sexually assaulting the orphans that his aid agency is supposed to help. On top of these heinous allegations, the charity organizer is accused of embezzling money that [...]

Kraft Foods purchasing manager Robert Watson was sentenced to jail yesterday for taking bribes from a tomato processor. In addition to getting thrown in the slammer, Watson will have to pay Kraft $1.85 million for the losses that the company suffered.
For over four years, Watson took bribes from a tomato processing company broker. In exchange, [...]

The United States’ “Cash for Clunkers” program has been so popular in recent weeks that Congress injected another huge sum of money to keep the program going. But they should take heed of the problems plaguing a similar project in Germany. The European power’s notorious cash for clunkers program, which launched this February, forgot one key provision: accountability.

Everything’s bigger in Texas- even middle school cheating scandals. This isn’t a simple of case of teens sneaking peaks at friends’ tests. At  Lang Middle School in Dallas, a major abnormality with an end-of-year standardized test has put the fate of 400 eighth graders into question. And it appears that it wasn’t the kids but [...]

This warm summer weather must be doing something to all of our politicians. Late Tuesday, another political sex scandal came out of the woodwork. This time, it was Republican state senator Paul Stanley of Tennessee. The actors in this drama:  Stanley (a married man), his 22-year old intern, and the intern’s angry boyfriend, who tried [...]

College is supposed to be a bastion of higher learning that lets students from all walks of life have a chance at a better future. The jerks at the University of Illinois, however, seem to have other ideas. Their controversial admissions policy, which came to light this month, spit on the idea of fairness by [...]

Remember reading last week about the corruption scandal that broke out in New Jersey involving synagogue raids and black market organs? The amusing high jinks that emerged from the story (one culprit hid $97,000 in an Apple Jacks box- clever!) made the whole ordeal sound like a Hollywood movie script.
The part that caught our attention [...]

These men really know how to say one thing, just to turn 180 degrees and do another thing. Yet another extra marital affair has come to light on Capitol Hill. Charles W. Pickering Jr., former Representative, allegedly reignited relations with an old flame while living in the house on C Street.
“A Capitol Hill townhouse that [...]

An Italian prostitute, lavish parties, and an 18 year old model- seems a little risque for most 72 year old men. But we’re talking about eccentric Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The public official, who is also a billionaire media mogul, has been accused of getting a little too cozy with a teenage girl, which [...]