Dennis Kozlowski

Tyco International CEO Dennis Kozlowski was notorious for his extravagant lifestyle in 1990s Manhattan; he allegedly had his company pay for his $30 million New York City apartment, which contained $6,000 shower curtains and $15,000 dog-shaped umbrella stands. In 2005 he was convicted of financial crimes related to $81 million in unauthorized bonuses; $14 million on art, including oil paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet; and a $20 million banking fee. He served nine years before being granted conditional release. At his parole hearing, Kozlowski confessed for the first time, stating, “It was greed, pure and simple.” He had previously maintained his innocence, telling a reporter, “I was a guy sitting in a courtroom making $100 million a year. And I think a juror sitting there just would have to say, ‘All that money? He must have done something wrong.’  ”