Mann named Hale, Dozhier and University of Arkansas Little Rock professor Jimmy Peck as members ofa right-wing inner circle, along with David Henderson and Steve Boynton, who she identified as the "Washington" end of the Richard Mellon Scaiffe-funded operation she witnessed.
In Britain, a series of business scandals in the 1980s, most notoriously Polly Peck, a conglomerate which manipulated its foreign-exchange earnings, convinced the corporate world that accounting rules had to get better.