Vile People

Scott D. Sullivan is an American Certified Public Accountant and the former Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Board member and Secretary of WorldCom, who engineered WorldCom's $11-billion accounting fraud, the largest scandal of its kind in U.S. history.

At his pinnacle, Mark Swartz was worth roughly $150 million. But he illegally pocketed $50 million and got caught. Swartz used to be the chief financial officer of Tyco International, and the day he went to prison (in 2005), he was big news. Paparazzi chased him; his

Founder of Parmalat and its CEO, Calisto Tanzi is an Italian businessman notorious for embezzling an estimated eight-hundred million euros from his own company resulting in a bankruptcy dubbed "Europe's Enron".

Adolph Alfred Taubman (born 1924) is an American real estate developer and philanthropist from Michigan. He pioneered the modern shopping mall concept and was described by CBS News as a "legend in retailing." Taubman became wealthy developing upscale shopping malls;

John Alexander Thain (born May 26, 1955) was the last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch before its distressed merger with Bank of America.

Thain was appointed as president of global banking, securities, and wealth management at the newly combined company, but he

James Anthony Traficant, Jr. (born May 8, 1941) is a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio (from 1985 to 2002). He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered around his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of

Jason P. Unangst, 34, formerly lived in the Pittsburgh suburbs of McCandless Township and Wexford. His last verifiable address was listed as Virginia Beach, Va., prosecutors said. He was indicted in June 2009 on charges of defrauding investors of “at least

Former head of Bear Stearns mortgage-backed securities division who is almost single-handedly credited for bringing down his employer and for masterminding the cascade of banking fraud that brought down the entire economy. He is currently in charge of the mortgage

Ex-ImClone Systems CEO Samuel Waksal once dreamed of developing a blockbuster cancer drug; in 2003, however, due to his role in an insider trading scandal involving the drug Erbitux, he was sentenced to just over seven years in prison and ordered to pay $4.3 million.

Sanford I. Weill (born March 16, 1933), commonly known as Sandy Weill, is an American banker, financier and philanthropist. He is a former chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup Inc. He served in those positions until October 1, 2003 and April 18, 2006