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[–] 74 points 4 hours ago (10 children)

Lmao, didn't a guy from Enron do the same thing?

He knew Enron was about to fail but couldn't sell his shares on the company so faked an affair and divorce so he was forced to sell his shares to pay for the divorce and was able to cash before the shares plunged

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  • [–] 20 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Found him: Lou Pai. He had an affair with a stripper and I don't think he was totally faking it because she got pregnant (or maybe he was really committed to the bit). But yes, he was very high up the corporate ladder and the timing of it was highly suspect.

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  • [–] 2 points 57 minutes ago

    IIRC from the book The Smartest Guys in the Room Lou Pai was a frequent strip club visitor.

    I’m gonna butcher this, but the story was he would cover himself in cologne to hide the smell before he went home from the club. A coworker he was with asked “wouldn’t you just smell like a glittery person with booze and cologne?” And got subsequently fired for that.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    lets put a big ding on my reputation so i got an excuse to liquify my assets, priorities i guess

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  • [–] 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Would you rather be a bizarrely rich brief nothing-scandal now laying on a Mexican beach, or a poor nobody on a subway?

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