This seems very likely to be the case. It also ignores that big companies have more employees who can both commit crimes or act as whistleblowers. Small scale c

This seems very likely to be the case. It also ignores that big companies have more employees who can both commit crimes or act as whistleblowers. Small scale corporate crime is likely easier to keep secret. Also, there is a lot of detection lag. Enron committed crimes for quite a while before they got caught. So did MCI.