Piercing The Corporate Veil
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So, now these creatures roam the earth, transcending national borders, controlling our food<br />
supply, poisoning our water, corrupting our politics, selling trillions of dollars of bogus securities<br />
as triple-A investments, fomenting wars and selling weapons to the combatants on all sides, and<br />
more. <strong>The</strong>y retain the best propagandists who portray them as “job creators” and who portray<br />
government as the enemy, which, so long as officeholders and regulators remain in thrall to big<br />
money, increasingly it is. (Continued below)<br />
Trust the “job creators.” Remember the tobacco company CEOs who swore under penalty of perjury<br />
that tobacco was neither addictive nor a health problem?<br />
David J. Lesar, the powerful Chairman and CEO of Halliburton, war profiteer, tax avoider,<br />
supplier of substandard equipment and contaminated drinking water to American troops in Iraq,<br />
has been immersed in scandal and corruption from the earliest stages of a corporate career that<br />
includes a 16-year partnership at Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that helped Enron steal<br />
billions of dollars from its customers, shareholders, and employees, thousands of whom lost their<br />
life savings.<br />
Lesar has never been convicted or even formally charged with a crime, but as an Arthur<br />
Andersen senior partner, he presided over a culture of criminality and corruption that included<br />
corporations such as WorldCom, Sunbeam, Waste Management, and many other notorious<br />
corporate clients. Lesar’s corporate biography omits his Arthur Andersen partnership.
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