How the slightest hint of financial scandal can affect a career.
Looking back, Maria Markham Thompson considers herself lucky.
In 1998, Thompson signed on as CFO at Chapman Capital Management, a high-flying, Baltimore-based investment management firm run by Nathan A. Chapman Jr. At the time, founder Chapman was readying an initial public offering for a company called eChapman Inc. Before Chapman could take the site public, however, the dot-com bubble burst, and he could no longer sell the proposed flotation. The end came when he discovered that Thompson had given company lawyers working on the offering the requisite language for disclosure of a material event — a disclosure that Chapman had no intention of making. Soon after, Thompson quit.
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