Dark Capital · DC-025
She Found £3.8 Billion With No Asset On Tuesday. By Thursday She Had Found £7.2 Billion More.
Cynthia Okafor found $3.8 billion in unaccounted capital expenditures at Frontier Communications in May 2002, later discovering an additional $7.2 billion. The fallout led to the swift termination of the CFO and a staggering $180 billion loss in market value within days.
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