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• Deadline looms for trust fund claims

  - 2005-12-14

  Melmer, David Indian Country Today Lakota Times 12-14-2005 WASHINGTON -- Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases,...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, attorney, FINANCE, Government, lease, Litigation, reconciliation, revenue, settlement, statute, Tribes, U.S. Congress

• US Supreme Court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction

  - 2005-05-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US Supreme Court overturned the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen, the onetime accounting giant effectively put out of business for its role in the Enron financial fraud. Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court that the case was "flawed" because of the...

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• Fischer Imaging Postpones Second Quarter Earnings Release

  - 2002-08-13

  Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers DENVER--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 13, 2002 Fischer Imaging Corporation (Nasdaq:FIMG) today announced that the Company has postponed the release of its second quarter 2002 earnings report. Fischer has canceled the investor conference call previously scheduled for Wednesday, August 14, 2002 and will delay the filing of...

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• Six Corporations Awash in Scandals Gave Nearly $13M in Soft Money During Past Decade, According to Democracy 21 Report

  - 2002-07-08

  WASHINGTON, July 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- During the past 10 years, a rogue's list of corporations currently awash in scandals -- Adelphia Communications, Arthur Andersen, Enron Corporation, Global Crossing, Qwest Communications, and WorldCom Inc. -- poured $12,988,699 in soft money contributions into the nation's political system, including $7,765,553 to Republicans...

  Tags: Adelphia Communications Corp., Arthur Andersen, Democrat, Enron Corp., FINANCE, Global Crossing Ltd., Litigation, Qwest Communications Inc., Republican, SEC, WorldCom Inc.

• See you in court. (The Week in Review).

  - 2002-04-29

  Take that settlement and shove it. That's the message the Department of Justice delivered to Arthur Andersen LLP of Chicago on Thursday when it rejected an offer from the accounting firm to settle an obstruction-of-justice charge related to the collapse of bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp....

  Tags: accounting, Arthur Andersen, Chicago, FINANCE, Litigation, settlement, U.S. Department of Justice

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Business Briefs Column.

  - 2002-04-13

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 13--LTV ACQUISITION COMPLETED: An investment group said yesterday it had completed its $394 million purchase of bankrupt LTV Corp.'s steelmaking operations and had signed a letter of understanding with the United Steelworkers union to hire former LTV...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, bankruptcy, BlackRock Inc., Center for Democracy and Technology, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, FINANCE, Investment, Litigation

• After Enron - new laws to prevent corporate crimes will yield few changes unless the public speaks out

  - 2002-03-01

  The Enron scandal is a supermarket of corporate crime, fraud, and abuse. There are already twelve Congressional subcommittees investigating this proliferating Enron scandal. But Congress, whose members are marinated in campaign contributions from Enron and its accountant, Arthur Andersen, cannot just hold hearings and occasionally return campaign contributions. ...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, Enron Corp., FINANCE, Litigation, U.S. Congress

• Ansett hopes begin to soar after NZ deal.

  - 2001-10-04

  Oct 5, 2001 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- Ansett Australia has won a multimillion-dollar settlement from its former parent, Air New Zealand. A $NZ885m New Zealand Government bailout package for Air New Zealand includes a $A310m settlement for Ansett. The figure includes a...

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• Firm Settles Charges over Houston-Based Waste Management Company Audits.

  - 2001-06-20

  By Jenalia Moreno, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 20--The accounting firm Andersen has agreed to pay federal regulators $7 million in connection with charges it filed misleading audits of Waste Management's financial position. Tuesday's settlement comes after...

  Tags: accounting, Arthur Andersen, audit, FINANCE, Litigation, SEC, settlement

• Waste Management Comments on Arthur Andersen's Settlement with the SEC

  - 2001-06-19

  Business Editors HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--June 19, 2001 Waste Management Inc. (NYSE:WMI) responded today to the announcement that its outside auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, had reached a settlement with the Securities Exchange Commission regarding audits done for a wholly-owned subsidiary of Waste Management Inc. for the calendar years in the...

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