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Tyco International 2002 : Compensation Committee Capture & Executive Loan Forgiveness │ GP/LP Analysis - 3 Red Flags │ EP42 T2
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In 2002, Tyco International's CEO extracted $400 million from a Fortune 500 company using a mechanism the compensation committee authorized, the auditors reviewed, and the board approved — for six consecutive years.
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This episode dissects the executive loan forgiveness mechanism: how Dennis Kozlowski used Tyco's Key Employee Loan Program as a personal extraction instrument, how the compensation committee lost substantive independence while maintaining formal compliance, and why the audit trail was clean while the fraud ran.
For GPs and LPs: the three red flags that were in the proxy statements before the investigation opened — nomination history analysis, peer compensation benchmarking, and the absence of documented committee friction — and the active signal in private equity portfolio companies where compensation governance captures the same structure today.
Mechanism: Compensation committee capture via loan forgiveness authorization.Sarbanes-Oxley Section 402 — the executive loan prohibition — is Tyco's mechanism, translated directly into law.
Financial Forensics Labs — EP42 T2 │ GP/LP Analysis
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