The ABCs of Corruption · The Ledgers

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A settlement lets a company pay and move on, often without admitting anything, and the name fades long before the conduct does. Every case in the ABCs of Corruption is here with the name blacked out: $13,000,000,000 from JPMorgan, $20,800,000,000 from BP, the records of 192,700,000 people lost by Change Healthcare. Each name that stays blank is a measure of how well that works.

Each story below is lifted word for word from a ledger. A black bar covers the name, and the list under it holds every name still unplaced.

Pick a level
TraineeOne ledger at a time, in date order, with no clock. Pick a ledger.

LevelScopeClockList
TraineeOne ledger, names only, in date orderNoneEvery name in that ledger, shrinking as each is placed
AuditorAll 31 names, in date orderCounts upEvery name still unplaced
Expert SADHOT AuditorAll 31 names and 10 sums, shuffled6:00 counting down, 10 seconds lost for each wrong pick8 choices at a time, changing every 8 seconds

The stories, the lines in the black bars, the outcomes and the figures all come from the five ledgers of the ABCs of Corruption, where each one is cited. The game reads the ledgers each time the page loads, so a correction made there shows up here.

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