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Dirty Rotten Ceos: How Business Leaders Are Fleecing America Hardcover – January 1, 2003

by William G. Flanagan (Author)
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Argues that many corporate executives have destroyed the value of their companies, cheated stockholders, employees, and the public, and compromised the integrity of financial markets and accountants while enriching themselves.
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    278 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Citadel Pr
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0806525215
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0806525211
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Bill Flanagan is Executive Vice President of MTV Networks and an on-air essayist on “CBS News Sunday Morning.” He is the author of U2 at the End of the World and Written in My Soul. He has written for Esquire, Spy, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, Men’s Journal and many other publications. Flanagan’s first novel, A&R, was published by Random House in 2000.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Citadel Pr (January 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 278 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806525215
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806525211
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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J. L. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars MUST Read for anyone who owns stock
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2004
This the most compelling work I have ever read on this topic. Flanagan builds the characters like in a novel, reports the facts like a top notch reporter, and provides incredible insights into the rotten world of big businss. He is remarkably witty and keeps you begging for more. It is a real education and an enjoyable reading journey, like none I have read in a long time. I thought I'd o.d.'d on business topics but this one makes you hope Flangan is writing the next version!! Every shareholder and Board member needs to read this and soon!
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Ehkzu
4.0 out of 5 stars Betrayal of conservative values by conservative leadership
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2003
This is NOT a diatribe against The Man by some leftie. It's far more dammning than that. It's an angry, detailed condemnation of America's business leadership and its spineless confederates in our legislatures and in the accounting, banking, legal, and journalistic professions--written by a veteran business journalist who has worked for Business Week, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal.
The book targets America's small investors, which includes anyone with a 401K plan; i.e. most of us. And he doesn't spare the investment community for failing to start asking questions until their nest eggs vanished.
But his main focus is the bad guys. He shows how they did it to us; how they [destroyed] the very people we depended on to keep them honest; how they silenced the few regulators, accountants, analysts and fellow executives who opposed their schemes; how they ran up their incomes from 40x that of hourly workers in 1980 to over 535x today.
He proves conclusively that the problem was not--as President Bush claimed--a few bad eggs. Rather, it is so widespread it requires far-reaching, systemic reform.
You should read this book even if you don't agree with his proposals for reform, but those proposals are truly interesting and provocative. Above all he calls for transparency. For example, all these CEOs were dumping their own stock just as they were exhorting employees and other investors to buy, buy, buy. If they'd had to reveal this fact, investors would have gotten a big red flag. However, he adds that CEOs should be prohibited from dumping more than a quarter of their company stock while they're employed by that company.
He also calls for the elimination of taxes on dividends, which I always assumed would just help the fat cats get fatter. But he's arguing on behalf of the little guy with the 401K, and he persuaded me that I'd been wrong about this. And to be fair to President Bush, I'd held his support for eliminating
dividend taxation against him, and I'm having to revise that now. I especially appreciate a book that refines my understanding, even if it means abandoning something I'd believed.
The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because it's not edited as well as I'd liked. This has nothing to do with the content, which is exemplary and well-substantiated. The few typos and [weak] metaphors do not detract from that content materially. And I did appreciate the touches of humor amidst all the fury-inducing revelations, such as this Kin Hubbard quote: "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket."
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William G. Flanagan
4.0 out of 5 stars Setting the record straight
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2003
Dear Sirs:
I am the author of Dirty Rotten CEOs, and I must point out a serious error in the review posted by the anonymous reader from Mount Kisco, N.Y. He states that the highest paid executive in 2001 was Michael Dell, not Larry Ellison, and takes me to task for that mistake. But it is the reader who is dead wrong. The top earner in 2001 was indeed Larry Ellison, whose total compensation for 2001 was $ 706.1 million. (Michael Dell was a distant second in 2001, at $201.3 million.) Those figures come from Forbes magazine, May 13, 2002, p 116, and were reprinted in my book on page 25.

In view of that drastic error, I would like to request that his review be removed . Yes, there were some regrettable but minor errors in my book (corrected in the subsequent edition). But the reader committed a whopper, using figures from the wrong year! I would suggest you kill that review, or print my reply immediately after it.
Sincerely,
William G. Flanagan
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D.J.
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2007
When I bought this book, I had rather meager expectations since I know well what happened before and after the telecom crash. However, I was pleasantly surprised that it turned out to be a very informative book with some nice detail that I did not know about some of the crooks on Wall Street and CEOs of the companies that bilked billions from investors.

By now, the book has become a bit of a history book. Nonetheless, I recommend it as both an entertaining read and as a reminder that the same fraud is still going on.
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4.0 out of 5 stars It reads like a superb novel!
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2004
We all heard the "news on speed" sensationalist hype about Enron, et al. Mr Flanagan tells the real stories that the hype came from. And he kept my interest all the way through, which surprised me no end. His skillful literary references, the "interviews with Mr. B," and the sheer storytelling make this business book as readable as any good novel. I wish all of Wall Street would read it!
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