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> No. An unprecedent fraud undid them all.

It was plain old accounting fraud.

> And nobody saw it coming.

Nothing to see if you do not look.

> Put it all together and there really was no good reason to refuse the buyout.

He claimed he did it to secure Sierras financial future, but didn't see it as an issue when CUC refused to share its financial data.

It might be a hindsight thing, but it seems that at least nowadays larger companies spend a lot of time going over finances and other economic data before they agree to that kind of deal.

> If the purchasing company hadn't been a fraud

They could have been completely honest and still been in a state where the buyout itself would have been enough to break both. Wouldn't be the first time a company overextended itself.




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