NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, Dec. 17, 1938

* Phillip Musica - F. Donald Coster
* Italian swindler suicide death in NYC
* McKesson & Robbins scandal of 1938

The front page has a great banner headline: "'COSTER' KILLS HIMSELF; Dietrich, Vernard Bared as His Brothers" with subheads and related photos. (see images) Nice for display. 
Complete with 46 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally very nice.

Background: The dramatic 1938 suicide of Philip Musica—who had successfully infiltrated high society under the alias F. Donald Coster as the president of McKesson & Robbins—marked the explosive culmination of one of the most significant corporate scams in American history and fundamentally revolutionized modern accounting. When an internal investigation exposed an $18 million fabricated inventory fraud run by Musica and his brothers through dummy corporations, fingerprinting by federal authorities unmasked the respected pharmaceutical titan as a twice-convicted swindler. Rather than face a return to prison, Musica locked himself in a bathroom at his Fairfield, Connecticut estate and fatally shot himself with a revolver just as police arrived to arrest him. The historical significance of his suicide and the exposure of the massive McKesson & Robbins scandal lay in its profound impact on corporate governance: it shattered public trust, exposed severe gaps in financial oversight, and forced the American Institute of Accountants to implement revolutionary new regulations that legally mandated independent auditors to physically verify inventory and confirm bank balances, establishing the rigorous auditing safeguards still used to prevent white-collar crime today.