"but it goes unnoticed, unpunished, or otherwise not recorded in ways accessible to researchers because they're too small to make waves. Maybe too small to both

"but it goes unnoticed, unpunished, or otherwise not recorded in ways accessible to researchers because they're too small to make waves. Maybe too small to bother prosecuting." Hm, but small crime under the radar just as well apply to big corporations, meaning just as probably small company fraud might have been overlooked or ignored, so was probably lots of small crime on the big corporations. So the bigger point still stands. And what does it have to do with media coverage? "We compiled data on 250+ US public companies involved in corporate securities frauds identified in 1,000+ Securities and Exchange Commission filings over 2005–2013" I would assume their data is from the state from actual judgments and not that they dig in newspapers archives.