This blog tends to mention cases where senior executives get (or don’t get) punished for their alleged misdeeds. The spin is often that the seniors don’t get punished as hard as the worker bees.
But what happens when the CEO gets put in jail for his or her alleged misdeeds, which may have led to under-reporting in the company’s financials for the past five years?
“Carlos Ghosn’s Arrest Rocks Auto Empire,” The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2018 (online). Nissan’s CEO jailed for allegedly under-reporting his earnings by several tens of millions of dollars.
How do you explain this to the worker bees? What’s the culture at the top? How did the Board not catch this? Were there not controls in place? Might the shareholders be a bit upset?
More a Governance and a Compliance issue, perhaps, although if one looks, one could find some information-related failures.
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