I hope you enjoyed your 5-min of fame Mike Daisey because your reputation is now completely and irrevocably ruined.
Remember James Frey (tricked Oprah and her staff).
He's doing quite well, see "current work":
Interestingly his show's run off broadway is scheduled through the 18th; anyone want to start a pool on that?
There's Henry Blodget as well:
exactly.
James Frey lied about his own personal experience and Henry Blodget was involved in securities fraud. They are relatively unknown outside their industry.
Mike Daisey told lies that he presented to news organizations, blogs, etc. as facts -- for money and self-promotion at the expense of a well respected company. CNN, NYTimes, The Washington Post, etc. wrote articles based on Mike Daisey's lies. In my view this is similar to what happened to Dan Rather a few years ago. People will forget, but they will remember.
My understanding is that he settled when he was accused of touting stocks he didn't like. But I also understand that he actually lost a lot of money on such stocks.
He paid $4m in restitution to investors, but apparently the total amount of lost money that could be traced to his transactions was less than the interest on the $4m over the half-decade after the fine. So the case looks a lot more complicated than the capsule version.