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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,...

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• Andersen settlement receives preliminary OK.(Briefs)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-05-02

  NEW YORK - A $65 million cash settlement from Arthur Andersen LLP over securities fraud charges related to the WorldCom Inc. collapse received preliminary court approval April 26, confirmed Len Barrack, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs. U.S. Distri NEW YORK - A $65 million cash settlement...

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• 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....

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• 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...

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• 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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