Corrupt CFOs Thrive in Small Town America

Improbable trivia quiz:  What do Adelphia, Tyco, and Worldcom have in common?

Being headquartered in very very small towns:  Respectively, Coudersport, PA (pop: 5,390), Portsmouth, NH (pop: 21,000) and Clinton, Miss. (pop: 25,000).

And according to no less a figure than Richard Breeden, former SEC chairman, isolation increases pressure on the financial staff to accede to pressures to engage in shenanigans.

Yet another reason you should be in New York.

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