Reports
These are the investigation reports currently covered by From Reports. Each article re-reads the primary source, selects concrete details and exchanges that are easy to miss in ordinary coverage, and links every note back to the relevant source page.
Deepwater Horizon. Eight days before the blowout: “we are in the dark”
At 3,142 psi, “still not sure what we blew yet”
12 notesTATERU deposit-balance falsification: a ban some took as “merely formal”
Digits edited on company PCs
12 notesCommonwealth Bank inquiry. Some participants said mistakes were acceptable when there was “good intent”
Red audit reports not routinely received
11 notesJPMorgan London Whale trades. A $6.3 billion risk estimate was dismissed as “garbage”
“put phones down”
11 notesDeNA curation controversy. The article-production system was sometimes called the “WELQ method”
The “WELQ method”
11 notesDanske Bank Estonia AML failures. “Could be used for money-laundering” was left out of the final memo
Russian Central Bank warned of “billions of rubles monthly”
10 notesBernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. The SEC received “The World’s Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud” with about 30 red flags
Barclays reported “no relevant transaction activity”
12 notesCarillion collapse. A hospital contract showed a 12.7% loss in peer review, while management used a 4.9% profit margin
Standard supplier terms were 120 days
12 notesKYB seismic damper data manipulation. A customer-witnessed inspection failed when the rewriting stopped
PC keys carried 0.85–1.15 coefficients
12 notesLeopalace21 construction defects. An internal message said dealing with authorities meant “1) threaten, 2) work through back channels”
Products sold before construction manuals were ready
12 notesThe Robodebt report: PwC’s “Final Report” became the “not-report”
A legal answer described as a strong no
10 notesThe Columbia accident. NASA Headquarters distributed a screensaver counting down to February 19, 2004 by the second
More than half the briefing slides were schedule margin
12 notesFTX's collapse. About 80,000 transactions were left in "Ask My Accountant"
"If Nishad got hit by a bus"
11 notesShoko Chukin Bank's improper crisis-response loans. Staff discarded genuine trial balances and created altered versions themselves
“Honesty doesn't pay”
12 notesCruise's accident response. An internal message said regulators 'did not notice'
A four-second video made by the CEO
9 notesCelsius Network collapse. "Interest payments" were just what the community was told about CEL purchases
117 million CEL left unburned
9 notesTokyo Stock Exchange system failure. Staff prepared to physically detach cables
30-second switchover
9 notesBoeing 737 MAX. A chief technical pilot said he had used a “Jedi mind trick” to talk an airline out of extra training
A “Jedi mind trick”
10 notesEquifax data breach. The monitoring certificate was 19 months past expiration
An alert to 430 people still missed the vulnerable code
10 notesEnron's accounting scandal. Approval-form boxes were already checked
Asset sales followed by buybacks
10 notesMitsubishi Electric's quality misconduct. A random-number program generated inspection reports for years
Random-number inspection reports
10 notesWorldCom accounting fraud. Hundreds of millions passed on Post-it Notes
“do not discuss issues in writing”
12 notesGM's ignition-switch defect. Engineers bought a fish scale during a salvage-yard investigation
an engineer's “switch from hell” email
12 notesKansai Electric's cash-and-gifts scandal. Gift certificates were placed at the bottom of paper bags
two 1 kg gold bars
12 notesOlympus loss concealment. Directors questioned the price, then approved the acquisition unanimously
used-syringe recycling
12 notesCredit Suisse’s Archegos loss. A warning that the people trusted to push back were gone
The people trusted to push back were gone
12 notesWells Fargo sales misconduct: the CEO saw “only 1%”
Sales goals only half the regions were expected to meet
12 notesWhy did Sekisui House pay JPY 6.3 billion despite repeated warning signs?
Earlier prospective buyers suspected an impostor and withdrew
11 notesKobayashi Pharmaceutical’s red yeast rice response. Recordings stopped, and no minutes kept
Government reporting was interpreted as required “only when the causal relationship is clear”
11 notesSuruga Bank's improper property lending. Falsified evidence was ordered as “ebi”
Falsified evidence was called “ebi”
11 notesJapan Post Insurance's improper sales. One manager said the two-year pitch dated back 40 years
The “two-year sales pitch” was widely known among sales staff
12 notesMizuho Bank's 2021 system failures. The warning threshold was 80%; usage reached 87% the day before
The warning threshold was 80%; usage reached 87% the day before
11 notesNidec’s accounting misconduct. An Excel file built around JPY 580 million said “The number of people is arbitrary”
A “for-show” plan and a “real” plan
12 notesSOMPO's response to Bigmotor's fraudulent claims. The committee asked whether staff would send their own cars there
All 30 plants reviewed were rated yellow or red
12 notesToshiba's inappropriate accounting practices
JPY 12 billion of improvement was demanded with three days left in the quarter
12 notesDaihatsu certification-test irregularities
The right side was never tested, so the left-side result was submitted
10 notesHino Motors engine-certification misconduct
A “+3%” data set was sent while the target remained unmet
8 notesToyota Industries engine certification and output-test misconduct
An email about the conflict between regulations and schedule went unanswered
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