Are some corporate misdeeds more equal than others?

Takeovers.com, for example, will be a portal for so-called activist investors looking to expose corporate misdeeds.

Tatge has written extensively about corporate misdeeds, starting with his coverage of the savings and loan scandal in Colorado Savings and loan crisis during the 1980s.

Writing for BBC News Online, he explains why these corporate misdeeds are just the tip of the iceberg.

Each day brings another corporate misdeed, another top executive in trouble, another company restating a profit as a loss, another auditor under fire for an accounting error.

Mr. Daschle himself made a point of having Mr. Corzine at his side in public appearances as the corporate misdeeds became public.

Yet there are several reasons to think the current revulsion at corporate misdeeds might last.

On Friday, asked what he had done to rein in corporate misdeeds, Mr. Pataki responded by praising federal prosecutors and Congress.

Many people angered by the recent spate of corporate and financial misdeeds are calling for jail time for the executives responsible.

And even this year, when corporate misdeeds have been in the spotlight, only 65.5 percent of ballots were returned, ADP reported.