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Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?
in Sox First, on July 4, 2009
...nt information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's...
Online connection boom
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
...affairs. Never before has there been so many people looking for a bit on the side. That's a sad indictment of the human condition and the self-destructive instincts of some. Of course, it's a...
New Evidence Against Barry Bonds May Not Be Admissible
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 29, 2009
...at Barry Bonds was involved with performance enhancing drugs other than those for which he is under indictment.
However, this, and possibly other evidence previously obtained may prove inadmissible a...
The Lori Drew Case and the Future of Anonymity on the Web
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 18, 2008
Steven Hodson at The Inquisitr published an interesting piece yesterday on the Lori Drew case and the legal implications it may eventually have for anonymity on the web.
Lori Drew's trial began today.
Hodson (along with Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins over at Mashable) wants you to thin...
Failed audit in Iraq
in Sox First, on May 24, 2008
...te contractor hired to train Iraqi police. Clearly, Iraq is a giant black hole for US money, a sad indictment of the worst and criminally irresponsible Government in US history....
AIG shame file
in Sox First, on May 10, 2008
...raising $12.5 billion in capital for one reason: to prop up its balance sheet and that's a real indictment of the company. The reality is that AIG's fortunes won't improve until the US cr...
Picks That Made You Go Hmm...
in End Zone Buzz, on April 28, 2008
...crutinized. It is important to remember that when picks are critiqued, it isn't necessarily an indictment of the player chosen, but a question if it was the wisest selection at that point. That sa...
KPMG's indictment
in Sox First, on March 22, 2008
Late last year, I did a blog entry at how the US Government was not backing down on its determination to prosecute foremr KPMG partners for peddling dubious tax shelters. That was after Judge Lewis Kaplan had accused the US Government of abusing its power. Now in the latest news, prosecutors ...
Spam King Pleads Guilty
in I got Spam?!, on March 15, 2008
...c mail , and failing to file a tax return in 2005. He was set to go on trial to face a 40-count indictment that included 13 counts of money laundering and seven counts of aggravated identity theft...
Hedge Fund Managers Indicted
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 21, 2008
...torney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida named the hedge fund managers in the indictment as Michael Lauer, Martin Garvey, and Eric Hauser, co-owners of management companies which...
Will You Pay More For Less?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 13, 2008
...39;d rather have fewer of the good-tasting thing than more of the inferior product. (This is not an indictment of store brand, btw; I've found many tasty and cheap store brands.)
Here's anoth...
MBA-free zones
in Sox First, on January 29, 2008
...ies , not to mention other regions of the world have so much to offer. If anything, it's an indictment of the values they pick up at the business schools....
11 Indicted in Pump and Dump Spam Scheme
in I got Spam?!, on January 5, 2008
...al grand jury indicted 11 men in an international spam and stock fraud scheme. The 41 count indictment names Michigan resident Alan Ralsky and 10 other men. They are accused of running a spam...
Daewoo: it's just cooking the books
in Sox First, on January 3, 2008
...n 2005 to face charges. As Gavin Hinks, editor of Accountancy Age points out , it's a massive indictment of a system that allows people to get away with accounting fraud: "That means he se...
Having a Merry Vista Christmas
in The CIO Weblog, on December 26, 2007
...in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?"
Still, you have to wonder if the real indictment here is of the marketplace. Although Vista sales pretty clearly haven't been the Wi...
BP, serial offender
in Sox First, on December 24, 2007
...ing about the plea deal, the Justice Department should be ashamed of it." This is not just an indictment of BP. It condemns the government for its collusion with a serial offender.
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Man Indicted in Yom Kippur ATV Death of Girl, 9
in Under My Helmet, on October 12, 2007
Last Yom Kippur, a young girl was run over and killed by a guy on an ATV in Shibli in the Galilee. The guy riding the quad, and his friend who was riding on the back, have been indicted. The driver was originally facing murder charges, but for some reason it's been dropped to manslaughter. His f...
"It wasn't me" says Jeff Skilling
in Sox First, on September 8, 2007
... process and produced a result that was flawed throughout, from the erroneous theory underlying the indictment through to his severely harsh sentence. That final error ultimately satisfied what many w...
NFL sacks Michael Vick for training camp
in End Zone Buzz, on July 24, 2007
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While it may be up to a year before Vick's case makes it to trial, Goodell believes that the indictment alone may be enough to keep Vick from playing this season....
Michael Vick indictment is not a racial matter
in End Zone Buzz, on July 18, 2007
...Courtesy Deadspin.com
Here's a big, fat Shut Up for all of the jerks, who say the Mike Vick indictment is race related.
I don't usually like to use this platform to vent, but I've n...
KPMG tax shelter indictments to be dismissed?
in Sox First, on June 25, 2007
...ase in US history ends. Prosecutors are now urging urging US District Judge Lewis Kaplan to dismiss indictments against 12 ex KPMG executives following his conclusion that the Government had violated ...
Big threats from KPMG avoided charges
in Sox First, on June 20, 2007
...rg . Given that senior US Justice Department officials intervened and KPMG subsequently avoided an indictment, the argument seemed to have worked. These documents, although several years old, have o...
Vick indictment may be near
in End Zone Buzz, on June 6, 2007
...ta Falcons Quarterback could soon be indicted for having dog fights at one of his homes.
An indictment could carry NFL sanctions from new NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, which would be big tro...
One down, 199 more to go
in I got Spam?!, on May 31, 2007
...accused of being a filthy spammer:
"A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identi...
Tax shelters: first KPMG, now it's Ernst & Young
in Sox First, on May 31, 2007
... investigation over the bogus shelters is not off the hook but it could still reach a deal to avoid indictment and certain death. What's interesting is that regulators are going for the individua...
Audit rules eased
in Sox First, on May 28, 2007
... tailored to the company's facts and circumstances." This is long-overdue and it's an indictment of a process that allowed politicians to rush through legislation without any proper cost...
BetonSports Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 26, 2007
...Kingdom, of the companies comprising the vast illegal internet gambling operations described in the indictment. BetonSports, PLC had been failing to appear and answer the criminal charges in the indic...
Dept. of Justice Siezes more Money
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 21, 2007
...ril that these funds had been frozen by one of its financial transaction processors.
In a separate indictment this week, three payment processors and seven individuals have been accused of miscoding ...
Analysts and accounting fraud
in Sox First, on May 15, 2007
...bility rather than incentives." The results of this study are not surprising. But it's an indictment nonetheless of analysts as the market's gatekeepers....
The Siemens scandal: another one bites the dust
in Sox First, on April 27, 2007
...oducing strong growth and a big increase in earnings. More of that here . The entire affair is an indictment of German corporate governance, says The Economist . "Mr Kleinfeld's main prob...
Gatekeeper lawyers
in Sox First, on March 29, 2007
... has pleaded not guilty and faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each of the indictment's seven counts. His lawyer has argued he was just "an honest man doing the best ...
Boom for litigants
in Sox First, on March 22, 2007
...ere involved roughly 50 per cent of cases. The players in that firm have now been hit by a criminal indictment and a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled that the firm is "not adequate" lea...
Fraudulent Allergy Testing
in Allergies, on February 20, 2007
...so face multiple counts of wire fraud for their alleged participation in the scam.
According to the indictment, Ibekie, Thomas and eight other defendants operated a scheme in which the American Instit...
Super Bike Racing's Andrew Wright Flees Country
in Under My Helmet, on December 26, 2006
...ht was convicted on all nine counts (smuggling, false statements, mail fraud, and wire fraud) of an indictment filed in June 2005...The investigation was conducted jointly with the EPA-OIG and DHS-ICE...
Ethics from the top: Warren Buffett's ethics lesson
in Sox First, on October 11, 2006
...eports . In his memorandum, written the week before Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn's indictment, Buffett has warned his execs that questionable practices can't be justified simply b...
Patricia Dunn: Everybody does it!
in Sox First, on October 6, 2006
Proclaiming her innocence, ousted Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn has expanded on the second line to her defence. The first track to her defence is ignorance of the law. Now in an interview on Sixty Minutes to be aired this Sunday night, she says the kind of spying perpetrated by HP...
Black into red?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2006
There's nothing holding back the new Che Guevara! Former Hollinger International chief and self-declared freedom fighter Conrad Black is applying to get his Canadian citizenship back . Black ditched his Canadian citizenship back in 2001 so that he could be admitted into Britain's H...
HP's lessons for boardrooms
in Sox First, on September 15, 2006
...f the investigative techniques can hardly be misplaced when the company's officials are facing indictment for the piece of boardroom espionage . Still, the most fundamental issue is that ...
Ken's Lay's record: to clear or not to clear
in Sox First, on September 8, 2006
...f Abatement ", a conviction against a defendant who dies before the appeal, and even the indictment, can be thrown out. That's in the interest of natural justice. But it also generally...
The war on options scams
in Sox First, on August 14, 2006
...egory Reyes and former vice president of human resources Stephanie Jensen, were hit with a 12-count indictment for scheming to backdate stock option grants to give employees favorably priced options w...
Playboy to Launch a Poker Site - Without US Players
in The Gambling Weblog, on August 1, 2006
...s.
It seems as if companies are getting nervous to do any business in the US since the BetonSports indictment - however, with the majority of online poker players still coming from the US, this could...
BetonSports.com Owners Get Indicted in the US
in The Gambling Weblog, on July 17, 2006
...se of the Internet to violate the law can ultimately only serve to harm legitimate businesses. This indictment is but one step in a series of actions designed to punish and seize the profits of indivi...
$2.5b Online Sportsbook Charged with Money Laundering
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 18, 2006
...rs to bet by sending their money from the US to Antigua - WWTS is licensed in Antigua.
The indictment charges them for violating the US wire act, money laundering and failure to declare incom...
Milberg Weiss Bershad Schulman: Time's Up?
in Sox First, on February 28, 2006
...rs to file securities fraud suits. Regardless of whether the prosecutors are successful or not, an indictment would seriously hurt the firm. Edward Hayes, an attorney for Schulman told the New York ...
Student Computer Hacker Caught Changing Grades
in The Universities Weblog, on February 20, 2006
....S. attorney's office said.
You Li, a 21-year-old student from China, was charged in a federal indictment Friday with accessing a protected computer in an attempt at fraud and obtaining informati...
Corporate Crime Line-Up
in Sox First, on December 21, 2005
...being hauled in on 42 charges of insider trading. In a handy addition, it also provides us with the indictment. Nacchio has now been added to the rogue's gallery of high profile corporate scandal...
Can SOX compliance work?
in Sox First, on December 5, 2005
... that one. Ventana Research raised questions about its effectiveness following last month's indictment of former Refco Inc chief executive Phillip Bennett by a grand jury on a count of securi...
Contribution Trumps Complaining
in Businesspundit, on September 12, 2005
... results of the institution I serve?" His stress is on responsibility. This is a direct indictment of me several years ago. I didn't think the companies I worked for owed me something ...
Computer Associates - Bad Business
in Businesspundit, on July 4, 2005
... International Inc. arranged to pay hush money to keep a bogus deal quiet, according to a revised indictment filed this week.
Newsday, citing court papers, reported that in February 2003 then-CEO S...
America - Still Too Much Debt?
in Businesspundit, on April 11, 2005
...ibility poses serious risks to the world economy.
Neither organisation issues the kind of scathing indictment that might offend its most powerful constituent. Nonetheless, both make it pointedly clea...
Vigilante Justice 2
in P2P File Sharing, on December 10, 2004
...charges of orchestrating a low-tech version of a denial-of-service attack. ... A federal grand jury indictment released Wednesday charges Tobin with attempting to "disrupt communications" by...