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by mordechai9000 1718 days ago
Here's a fun one: a telecom CEO (named Elizabeth, too) was forging customer signatures - signatures of people she had known and worked with in many cases - to show to investors.

And she took money from friends and employees, and told them they were getting shares in the company. In reality she used the money to pay off her lifestyle expenses.

To be fair, she probably intended to make good on the investments once the company was wildly successful.

The amazing thing is, the company had hired a new CEO and is actually still operating. Last I heard.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-08/quintilli...