a.k.a. the man from CUC who was responsible for the destruction of Sierra On-Line after securities fraud was detected following CUC's merger to become Cendant.
Walter Forbes (born 1942/43) is an American corporate executive and Federal prisoner. He has no relation to the Boston Brahmin Forbes family or the Forbes family that owns and publishes Forbes magazine. He was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and two counts of making false statements, for inflating reported incomes for the Cendant Corporation, when he was Chief Executive Officer of that company in the 1990s, and at its predecessor company CUC International.
On 2007 January 17, the 64-year-old Forbes was sentenced to over 12 years in prison, and ordered to make restitution amounting to $3.28 billion. Former vice chairman E. Kirk Shelton was ordered to pay the same figure. One Department of Justice website describes this as the largest restitution order ever imposed as of July 2007. It has since been overtaken by the $170 billion restitution order against Bernard Madoff in June 2009.
