The two, along with
associates, are the subjects of multiple US class - action lawsuits that allege
fraudulent behavior, the first of which was filed on October 25.
«We became interested in the plight of people whose career trajectories were derailed because of someone else's unethical
behavior — these were people who did nothing wrong themselves but suffered reputational damage merely by being
associated with a
fraudulent employer or company,» says Takuya Sawaoka of Stanford University, who published a paper today on the «moral spillover» effect in Social Psychological and Personality Science.