Corporate Rap Sheets

CORPORATE RAP SHEETS

Just about every day there is a new case of corporate malfeasance—bribery, tax evasion, price-fixing, defrauding of government or consumers, environmental violations, unfair labor practices and much more. Given the frequency of these scandals, it is difficult to keep track of which corporation has done what.

The Corporate Rap Sheets below are dossiers summarizing the most significant crimes, violations and other questionable activities of the world’s largest and most controversial companies.

Corporate Rap Sheets are written by Philip Mattera, who heads the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First and publishes the Dirt Diggers Digest, a blog on corporate misconduct. This website is a work in progress; new rap sheets will be added on a regular basis. Those additions are announced in Dirt Diggers posts and its Twitter feed.

Read more about the Corporate Rap Sheet project.

Current Inventory of Corporate Rap Sheets

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Daimler
Ford Motor
General Motors
Honda
Nissan
Toyota
Volkswagen

BANKING AND FINANCE
Bank of America
Barclays
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
JPMorgan Chase
Morgan Stanley
Royal Bank of Scotland
UBS
Wells Fargo

CHEMICALS
Dow Chemical
DuPont

FOOD/BEVERAGE PROCESSING
Cargill
Coca-Cola Company
Nestlé

MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT
Walt Disney

MILITARY CONTRACTING/AEROSPACE
BAE Systems
Boeing
EADS
General Dynamics
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon

MINING
Anglo American
BHP Billiton
Rio Tinto
Vale

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY/PETROCHEMICALS/PIPELINES
BP
Chevron
ConocoPhillips
Enbridge
Exxon Mobil
Royal Dutch Shell
Suncor Energy

PHARMACEUTICALS
AstraZeneca
Eli Lilly
GlaxoSmithKline
Merck
Novartis
Pfizer

RETAILING
Wal-Mart