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RIM & Motorola in the Legal Hot Seat
in The Gadgets Weblog, on November 23, 2009
...ola who find themselves on the receiving end of legal action over visual voicemail.
Making the allegations of patent infringement is Klausner Technologies, who states that both RIM and Motorola hav...
Seen that? - Baseball Betting Scandal Hits Taiwan
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...aiwan is once again going through a baseball betting scandal as police are looking into game fixing allegations in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), detaining 10 suspects including a co...
Eight New Insider Trading Arrests, Fourteen Total
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009
...EC’s ongoing investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms has brought allegations against 14 Wall Street professionals.
The charged defendants include hedge fund manag...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...obvious would be claiming credits for forests that don't exist. There could also be land grabs, bribery of officials and intimidation of villagers. The point is that the carbon trading market tra...
Lockerbie bomber freed for trade deals
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
...tions count for a lot in the desert nation." There is definitely a pattern here. Remember the bribery deals involving BAE and Saudi Arabia that Britain refused to investigate? It's something...
Anti-corruption body slams major export countries
in Sox First, on June 25, 2009
...arency International has condemned some of the world's biggest exporters for failing to tackle bribery corruption. In its latest report , the anti-corruption body said some of the world's w...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...land stuff? We now have reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is looking carefully at allegations that Walt Disney Company had for decades contaminated groundwater with toxic chemicals, ...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Blagojevich and Spitzer: a moral tale about power
in Sox First, on January 8, 2009
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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, now embroiled in allegations that he tried to flog to sell President-elect Barack Obama's former Senate seat, and former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who...
Bill Richardson Withdraws As Commerce Secretary Designee
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 5, 2009
...orn in.
Richardson has recently come under scrutiny by a New Mexico State grand jury investigating allegations of "pay to play" involving a company that was awarded a state contract after d...
Looking in the Mirror and Seeing Your Ethics Smiling Back at You
in Biz Plan Hacks, on December 29, 2008
...uker's Ethics of Prudence and declared it "timely" in light of recent events like the bribery scandal at Seimens and Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
I like Druker's complaint abo...
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
... admitted has the SEC screwed up badly. "The Commission has learned that credible and specific allegations regarding Mr. Madoff's financial wrongdoing, going back to at least 1999, were repea...
Bribe payers index
in Sox First, on December 11, 2008
...rom those places will sling the odd bag of money if it suits them. Clearly, the attempts to rein in bribery are not completely successful....
Google Blocks World’s Largest Porn Torrent Tracker
in Wangtam, on 2008-12-09
... British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations
• Technology start-ups to be given £1bn fund
• Interview With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Products, Funding, Competi...
Another KBR scandal
in Sox First, on December 6, 2008
...ucts, which caused cases of salmonella poisoning, according to the lawsuit." Add to that the allegations that the company has been using slave labor in Iraq, confining 1000 Asian workers in wi...
The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
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The Siemens bribery saga rolls on with two former managers confessing their crimes and likely to receive suspended sentences. The pair took the illegal payments and established a secret accounting...
Siemens' bribery bill
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
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How much does bribery cost a company? Siemens has announced it has set aside 1 billion Euros ($US1.3 billion) to settle the case with authorities in the United States and Germany. "The com...
Britain is a laggard on bribery
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) working group on bribery has published a special review of the UK's record in fighting foreign bribery and it's not...
Atletico ban put on hold
in The Soccer Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...against Liverpool on 22nd October and at Anfield on 4th November.
Atletico deny nearly all of the allegations.
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Oil watchdog's "corruption"
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
...ndustry was lavishing the agency's employees with improper gifts and gratuities. There are also allegations of drug use and totally inappropriate sexual relations. And the fascinating part is how ...
KBR bribery case goes deep
in Sox First, on September 6, 2008
The former chief executive of Halliburton spin-off US construction firm KBR, Albert Stanley, is facing seven years in the slammer after pleading guilty to charges of corruption relating to Nigerian deals, according to news reports . But this case could extend deep into Dick Cheney's old...
OECD slams Britain on failure to fix corruption
in Sox First, on August 18, 2008
...mic Co-operation and Development member-states slamming London's failure to deal with corporate bribery. The Financial Times reports it has seen a letter from the OECD's anti-bribery workin...
Another cozy deal for BAE and Saudis
in Sox First, on August 12, 2008
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Forget the ongoing probe by the U.S. Department of Justice into allegations that Saudi officials took bribes from BAE, as part of the $82.5 billion Al-Yamanah military aircraft deal. BAE is back ...
GM and Deloitte settlement over lying to investors
in Sox First, on August 10, 2008
...oitte has form on this. This is the same firm that last year agreed to pay $149 million to settle allegations that it aided and abetted fraud at Parmalat and that agreed to pay $38.25 to settle a $...
BAE and Mugabe
in Sox First, on August 5, 2008
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Only a few weeks ago, I did a blog entry on how the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal was getting worse. Just how much worse? Well, now we have the Financial Times reporting linking the armaments mak...
First Siemens conviction
in Sox First, on July 28, 2008
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The first Siemens manager has been convicted in the trial into the engineering group's bribery and corruption, according to the latest news . Reinhard Siekaczek (pictured above) has been giv...
Batman's Christian Bale Goes Bad
in The Celebrities Weblog, on July 23, 2008
...record breaking box office tally of about $158 million. This accomplishment, however, was marred by allegations that Batman put the beats on his mother and sister.
To the best of my knowledge Bale is...
Losing the anti-bribery fight
in Sox First, on June 24, 2008
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About 10 years after the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and it looks like the battle against corruption is going nowhere. According to a Transparency International report , has found that mor...
Siemens case expands
in Sox First, on June 20, 2008
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The Siemens bribery scandal gets wider and wider. Now we have reports that the bribe money was distributed through a German company owned by three banks. Needless to say, the banks have all...
AC Milan pinged for dodgy accounting
in Sox First, on June 14, 2008
... AC Milan and Inter Milan, were cleared of false bookkeeping. The judge in that case ruled that the allegations in the case no longer constituted a crime because the law on accounting violations was c...
BAE: The net closes
in Sox First, on June 5, 2008
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The intrigue surrounding the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal continues with the Financial Times reporting that a third man, BAE's business development director Alan Garwood has been issued wit...
Siemens probe to widen?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2008
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If Siemens executives thought the fallout from the bribery scandal was about to go away, they should think again. It's likely to get worse with the trial starting today of former executive Rei...
Zeroing in on BAE
in Sox First, on May 22, 2008
The US Department of Justice is flexing its muscles with the unexpected detention of BAE chief executive Mike Turner and another executive at George Bush International Airport. The DOJ is investigation BAE for alleged corruption and if found guilty, the company could be forced to repay billions ...
News from the FCPA front
in Sox First, on May 16, 2008
... reports that the US Justice Department has started targeting inidviduals, not just companies, for bribery and corruption. This is quite strategic. It not only puts the heat on individuals, but it al...
Global corruption on the rise
in Sox First, on May 14, 2008
... which shows that one in four executives around the world has experienced at least one incident of bribery or corruption in the last two years and 23 per cent admitted their organisation had been app...
Siemens: from bad to worse
in Sox First, on May 2, 2008
...ngs are sliding , down 67 per cent, because of project delays, cancellations and costs flowing the bribery investigation. Siemens latest woes coincide with a report from international law firm De...
BAE-Saudi appeal
in Sox First, on April 25, 2008
... ruling in London overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal between arms maker BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. Now we have...
IBM suspension fallout
in Sox First, on April 23, 2008
...federal grand jury probe over a bid for a contract at the agency in 2006. Details about the allegations against IBM are scarce but there are claims of evidence that the computer company improp...
Siemens shenanigans roll on
in Sox First, on April 22, 2008
...gnificantly, the prosecutors are refusing to say whether he is under investigation. Meanwhile, the allegations continue with claims in court that the company had paid bribes of as much as US$80 mil...
BAE bribery fallout
in Sox First, on April 14, 2008
...cision in London overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal between arms maker BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. The Serious ...
Biovail's fraud and SOX
in Sox First, on March 28, 2008
...EC complaint and judge for yourself. Biovail used tried and true methods to perpetrate the fraud. Allegations include Biovail creating fictitious accounts where nearly $100 million of expenses and l...
Hedge funds and dirty tricks
in Sox First, on March 24, 2008
...ation that the price falls, allowing you to buy them back and return them at a massive profit. The allegations include claims that: - an American-based private detective hacked into the corpo...
The Siemens clean up
in Sox First, on March 6, 2008
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Siemens says it's making progress rooting out corrupt practices in the fall-out from its bribery scandal. Siemens general counsel Peter Solmssen has told The Wall Street Journal that a speci...
FBI Reports Hedge Fund Fraud
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 4, 2008
...Fund, Shake the Nations and Opus Capital Holdings. He is being held without bail.
According to FBI allegations, Wilson solicited individuals to invest in what he described as a high risk hedge fund w...
Siemens fine to wipe profits
in Sox First, on January 23, 2008
...and is on top of the 201 million euro ($292 million) fine it received in October in connection with bribery activities in its communications equipment business. Reuters reports that the company exp...
Kate Moss: lustvolle Party, aber keine Orgie
in Lust und mehr, on 21.01.08
Das 34-jährige Supermodel Kate Moss hat ihre Anwälte nach Presseberichten angewiesen , gegen die britische Zeitung "News of The World" vorzugehen. Die Zeitung hatte geschrieben, dass es zwischen frau moss , zwei weiteren weiblichen Models und einem Mann zu erotischen Szenen gekom...
Samsung's art slush fund
in Sox First, on January 6, 2008
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More on the Samsung scandal . Now The Art Newspaper has published allegations that Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee set up a $225 million slush fund to buy art for his art museum director wife. The...
What's up for Microsoft in 2008?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 2, 2008
...ngs up a number of issues that have been off the radar in recent months: the Linux patent violation allegations, the staffing and expansion questions, the responses to Apple's iPhone, and the Surf...
Danish Christmas tree cartel
in Sox First, on December 24, 2007
...k's Christmas tree growers have been charged over claims of price-fixing and running a cartel. Allegations that costs were deliberately hiked up by 25 per cent follow a police investigation. The ...
Australian Gambling News
in The Gambling Weblog, on December 23, 2007
...ralian police and tennis officials are busy investigating possible violations of gambling rules and allegations of match fixing.
Check out this report on Australian tennis gambling .
Meanwhile the ...
Skilling fights on
in Sox First, on December 23, 2007
...killing was acting in the best interests of the company which means the "honest services" allegations have no place. "Where the employee's conduct is designed to further the employe...
Bear hunting
in Sox First, on December 20, 2007
...g Bear Stearns. BusinessWeek reports that securities regulators and prosecutors are investigating allegations that Bear insiders were given preferential treatment and allowed to exit the beleaguered...
Siemens and the SEC
in Sox First, on December 19, 2007
...ng group Siemens AG today met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the bribery scandal at Siemens. At the meeting, CEO Peter Loescher and , CEO and supervisory board chair...
Corruption on the rise
in Sox First, on December 11, 2007
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About one in 10 people around the world had to pay a bribe in the past year and reported bribery has increased in some regions, such as Asia-Pacific and South East Europe. Bribery is particularly w...
Gamespot finally responds to the rumours
in PCGamers Blog, on December 6, 2007
...g setup, and various parody sites being created.
Gamespot however have responded to these allegations, and have claimed it was a legal dismissal after standard internal review. Make of that ...
Samsung bribery scandal and Korea Inc
in Sox First, on December 5, 2007
...lobbied key public officials. There is also the allegation that chairman Lee Kun Hee masterminded a bribery network and paid out millions to facilitate the illegal transfer of a controlling stake in t...
Gamespot fire editor because of bad review?
in PCGamers Blog, on November 30, 2007
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Primotech have come out with some rather strong allegations, today suggesting that a senior editor of the massive GameSpot, is now out of a job because he reviewed a game, Kane and Lynch, somewh...
New Disclaimers for Man vs. Wild
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 7, 2007
...f you read the October issue of Outside, then you probably know Bear Grylls broke his silence about allegations surrounding the authority of his wildly popular show, Man vs. Wild. What you may not kno...
Watchdogs warn about funds
in Sox First, on November 4, 2007
...an ongoing federal investigation regarding possible defrauding of the government and accusations of bribery." Still, they shouldn't hold their breath. Both groups have strong political conne...
Why BBC Need to Apologise to Big Sam
in The Soccer Weblog, on October 26, 2007
...'s going to happen. The worst thing the BBC did was to annoy Allardyce with all those Panorama allegations so much that he no longer talks to them. Match of the Day could do with a few of Big Sa...
Where do I get my leads?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 25, 2007
...rgest organic dairies.
The suits charge Aurora Diary Corporation, based in Boulder, Colorado, with allegations of consumer fraud, negligence, and unjust enrichment concerning the sale of organic milk...
Don't have a cow, but that milk isn't organic
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 25, 2007
... for instance. Almost immediately, Aurora Organic's newly-certified Colorado farm faced similar allegations: that only heifers and dry cows-not milking cows-would have access to pasture, and that ...
China Reroutes Search Traffic?!
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...China has been involved in previous claims of Internet censorship but the government has denied the allegations.
You smell something fishy?
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Absolute Poker: When Free Money Isn't Enough
in Internet Poker, on October 22, 2007
...itional accounts at this time, and will contact these affected customers individually.
The specific allegations of unlawful activity are being investigated both by AP and by the authorized authorities...
Bear Grylls Interview in Outside Magazine
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 18, 2007
... If you're interested in hearing Bear Grylls explain the allegations surrounding his show, I advise you to head to your nearest bookstore and purchase a copy of the November 2007 issue of Outsid...
Paid Links Minus Google Punishment
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 14, 2007
...e a thing for you. Paid links will boost your search engine optimization results.
No black hat. No bribery. No dirty tricks. No less than pure business. These are some of the legit ways to ensure cle...
Siemens fined, more to come
in Sox First, on October 5, 2007
...suspicious transactions rising to about €1.6 billion ($US2.26 billion), this case of appalling bribery is not going away. The European law enforcement agency, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Se...
Bristol-Myers Squibb pinged $515 million to settle fraud charges
in Sox First, on October 2, 2007
...luded consulting fees and all expenses paid trips to resorts to attend conferences. There were also allegations that Bristol-Myers Squibb was behind the submission of false or fraudulent claims to m...
Financial statement fraud gangs
in Sox First, on October 2, 2007
...s. According to the study, CEOs and CFOs were named as participants in the great majority of fraud allegations, suggesting that the requirement under Sarbanes-Oxley for CEOs and CFOs to certify repor...
US sues Bloomberg
in Sox First, on September 30, 2007
...till dating her boyfriend and if she was "giving him good" oral sex. Bloomberg denied the allegations and settled the case for an undisclosed amount. The company says the new case is wi...
