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Corporate Fraud Open Dataset (CC BY 4.0)

The Corporate Fraud Library publishes its complete structured database as open data under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Designed for academic researchers, data scientists, journalists, and LLMs, the dataset joins enforcement records across multiple regulators into unified, relational tables.

DATASET SPECIFICATIONS
  • Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) for the joined dataset.
  • Row Counts: 62 Cases, 62 Actions, 40 Penalties, 36 Schemes.
  • Formats: Downloadable in standard RFC 4180 CSV and UTF-8 JSON.
  • Data Integrity: SHA-256 checksums verified at build time.

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VERSION 1.0.0
Cases Table (CSV) /data/cases.csv • 24845 bytes Primary joined case records with overstatement totals, penalties, prison time, and schemes.
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SHA-256: 383b06df3d68697d0e6da34c84e8eb83170e9ff265eec99868048be5ac35fbe6
Cases Dataset (JSON) /data/cases.json • 47131 bytes Complete JSON records suitable for programmatic analysis and document ingestion.
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SHA-256: 9069f913db6302b770475d23816e1b922653ac4f9a3e5acaef6cede9782017a1
Actions Table (CSV) /data/actions.csv • 24525 bytes Granular regulatory actions, SEC AAER numbers, litigation releases, and primary document URLs.
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SHA-256: 2d84e517b6b8a4a0295c66f0552f4be752c082c5a09f33827f1fd1292e4466ad
Penalties Table (CSV) /data/penalties.csv • 5229 bytes Individual penalty lines: civil money penalties, disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and USD conversions.
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SHA-256: 3b4d94d5838c6ee6fa9c60dea17f37e2a05966173d1eecc95bfbb0c284b8b000

RELATIONAL DATASET SCHEMA

PRIMARY & FOREIGN KEYS
Field Name Type Description
id VARCHAR Unique alphanumeric case identifier (e.g. case-2002-worldcom).
slug VARCHAR URL route slug formatted as [year]-[issuer-slug].
jurisdiction VARCHAR ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the primary regulatory proceeding.
status ENUM alleged, settled, adjudicated, dismissed, ongoing.
admit_deny ENUM admitted, neither_admit_nor_deny, contested, not_applicable.
overstatement_usd DECIMAL Verified financial misstatement converted to USD at historical rates.
total_penalties_usd DECIMAL Sum of all civil penalties, disgorgement, and restitution ordered.
primary_scheme VARCHAR Primary taxonomy slug from data/schemes.yaml.