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If this results in common knowledge that parents will tell to their college-age kids "don't go working for scammers, because when they get exposed this will be a black mark on your CV for years" - well, then that's a good thing for society in general, as it will make recruiting for "technically legal, not yet explicitly prohibited" scams harder.

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My first job was for Arthur Andersen.

Tell me about it! ;-)

(Actually, it was still the best workplace I've ever seen, a few dbag partners screwed the entire company built on a man's principles and vision.)

That is what I read, that AA was a good company which got nuked on account of a few bad apples. This was Enron/AA, circa 2001, and the net job loss of around 85,000 meant that when it happened again on a grander scale, Too Big To Fail was the result. Politicians didn't have the stomach for that many white collar job losses, especially in that economy. They were probably right. We were on the brink of another Great Depression and that wasn't the time to be moralistic about corruption. It really wasn't.

How many is a few?

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