CRIME

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Eddie Antar	Business	18-Dec-1947		Crazy Eddie
Jordan Belfort	Business	9-Jul-1962		The Wolf of Wall Street
Sylvia Browne	Paranormal	19-Oct-1936		Afraid to accept Randi's $1 million challenge
William W. Canfield	Business	c. 1938		TALX Corporation
Thomas Cochrane	Military	14-Dec-1775	31-Oct-1860	Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen
Bernard Ebbers	Business	27-Aug-1941		CEO of WorldCom, 1985-2002
Walter A. Forbes	Business	c. 1943		Deposed CEO of Cendant
Rajat K. Gupta	Business	2-Dec-1948		Managing Partner of McKinsey, 1994-2003
Charles Hurwitz	Business	c. 1940		Corporate raider, MAXXAM
Charles Keating	Business	4-Dec-1923		Morality crusader, white-collar swindler
Adnan Khashoggi	Business	25-Jul-1935		Saudi billionaire, arms merchant
Dennis Kozlowski	Business	16-Nov-1946		Disgraced CEO of Tyco
Sanjay Kumar	Business	1962		Former CEO, Computer Associates
Ken Lay	Business	15-Apr-1942	5-Jul-2006	CEO of Enron, 1986-2002
Bernard L. Madoff	Business	29-Apr-1938		Madoff Investment Securities LLC
Jean-Marie Messier	Business	13-Dec-1956		CEO of Vivendi, 1996-2000
Joseph P. Micatrotto	Business	c. 1951		CEO of Buca di Beppo, 1996-2004
Michael Milken	Business	4-Jul-1946		Convicted financial executive
Paul Moller	Inventor	1937		The Skycar
Angelo R. Mozilo	Business	1938		Former CEO of Countrywide
Joseph Nacchio	Business	22-Jun-1949		Qwest CEO, convicted of fraud
Henry T. Nicholas	Business	c. 1959		Broadcom billionaire
John Rigas	Business	14-Nov-1924		CEO of Adelphia, 1952-2002
Richard Scrushy	Business	Aug-1952		Imprisoned CEO of HealthSouth
Jeffrey Skilling	Business	25-Nov-1953		Disgraced former CEO of Enron
R. Allen Stanford	Business	24-Mar-1950		Stanford Financial Group
Marylin Star	Pornstar	12-Apr-1969		Ex-Pornstar, insider trader
Martha Stewart	Business	3-Aug-1941		Professional housekeeper, insider trader
David Stockman	Government	10-Nov-1946		Ronald Reagan's chief economist
Preston Tucker	Business	21-Sep-1903	26-Dec-1956	The car of tomorrow -- today
Robert Vesco	Criminal	4-Nov-1935	23-Nov-2007	Fugitive financier
Sam Waksal	Business	8-Sep-1947		CEO, ImClone
Larry Wilcox	Actor	8-Aug-1947		Officer Jon Baker on CHiPS
Louis Wolfson	Business	28-Jan-1912	30-Dec-2007	Business criminal, horse breeder
Charles Wyly	Business	13-Oct-1933	7-Aug-2011	Billionaire, Michael's Stores
Sam Wyly	Business	1934		Early computer entrepreneur

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