salad oil scandal
Definition
A corporate scandal that occurred in 1963, when Allied Crude Vegetable Oil took out sizable loans secured by inventories of salad oil. The company used tricks to fool cargo inspectors in order to conceal the fact that much of the inventory was actually water, enabling $175 million worth of loan fraud to take place.
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