Feds say the O.C. Register´s ghoulish purchase of life insurance on its employees cost it millions
(LA Times Dodgers)

Facing a severe financial crunch back in 2013 and 2014, the then-owners of the Orange County Register cooked up a creepy plan to dig out of their hole: They bought life insurance policies on their own employees. The idea was to record the putative value of those policies upon the workers´ deaths...