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101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Where are they now?

These perpetrators of dumbest moments past may be out of the spotlight, but check out what they're up to now.

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Deep Throat (2002)

Then: We may or may not make a joke here.

Hoping to keep his cash-hemorrhaging company afloat, Salon.com editor David Talbot announces a blockbuster story: Former Nixon attorney John Dean will "unmask the real Deep Throat" in an exclusive e-book for sale on the site. After the person Dean intended to name threatens a lawsuit, Salon backpedals; when the book finally appears, it limply suggests four people who may - or may not - have been the Watergate informant.

Now: Cloak of mystery is lifted

In May 2005 Deep Throat is finally identified as W. Mark Felt, a former top-ranking FBI official now living in Santa Rosa, Calif. His family issues a statement, calling the 91-year-old Felt a "great American hero."

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