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The Civil Enforcement Initiative : A Chapter 13 Perspective
"This article provides a look at the Program’s civil enforcement activities in the Chapter 13 area and encourages participation and support of public. Several issues have emerged that present new or particularly significant challenges for civil enforcement in Chapter 13. These issues include debtor identification, serial filers, substantial abuse under...
Keep on Truckin': DOJ Says Andersen Destroyed Tons of Evidence
The article asserts that neither Enron nor any of its employees have been brought up on criminal charges. The indictment alleges that, at the firm's direction, Andersen personnel engaged in the wholesale destruction of tons of paperwork and attempted to purge huge volumes of electronic data or information. Dozens of...
Conglomerate Mergers And Range Effects: It’s A Long Way From Chicago To Brussels
In the 1960s, the United States experienced a wave of conglomerate mergers, driven in part by overly restrictive antitrust policies toward horizontal and vertical mergers. In response, the U.S. antitrust agencies and courts developed a number of theories of competitive harm with colorful names like deep pockets, reciprocal dealing, and...
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Editorial: Justice Department Screening
Breaking the law at the U.S. Justice Department, of all places, should carry serious consequences. Three top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke civil-service laws by using political criteria to weed out candidates for career jobs, an internal report said Monday. Creating litmus tests that would have been...
Letters to the Editor
Another Monica Two consecutive administrations have been tainted by a Monica: Bill Clinton's Lewinsky and George W. Bush's Goodling. There should be no question as to which one had the greater potential to irreparably harm the country. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who attempted to rearrange the political landscape of the...
Former Asst. U.S. Attorney Says Department of Justice Chose to Pursue Easier-to-Prove Charges Against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens
Senator Charged with Failing to Disclose Receipt of Services Instead of Bribery WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens with seven counts of failing to disclose and receiving more than $250,000 in gifts and services from VECO Corp. on his Senate financial...
CAGW Cites Sen. Stevens' Pork Following Indictment
WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today responded to news that Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has been indicted by the Justice Department on seven counts for failing to disclose $250,000 worth of gifts from a contractor. "While the purported failure to report the gifts does not directly...
Republican US senator indicted for oil gifts
WASHINGTON AFP — Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the US Senate, has been indicted for making false statements concerning gifts he received from an oil-services firm, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Stevens, 84, was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of making...
Ex-Utahns politicized jobs, probe says
Top aides to former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- including two former Utahns -- illegally allowed politics to influence the selection of career prosecutors and immigration judges, a Justice Department probe concluded Monday. The Utahns involved are Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, and Jan...
US high court urged to revisit death penalty for child rape
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Justice Department has appealed to nation's highest court to re-hear a major death penalty case involving sentencing for child rapists, saying the ruling was made without all the facts. The Supreme Court last month ruled 5-4 against the death sentence for child rapists,...
European Commission approval obtained for HP's acquisition of EDS
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-28 July 2008-European Commission approval obtained for HP's acquisition of EDSC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Information technology services company HP (NYSE:HPQ) announced on Friday (25 July) that the European Commission has approved, without conditions, HP's planned acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corporation EDS. HP and EDS...
Norris loses US extradition battle but says he will appeal
LAWYERS acting for Ian Norris, the former chief executive of Morgan Crucible, have vowed to use all rights of appeal after a magistrates court ruled that he should be extradited to face obstruction of justice charges in the United States. The obstruction charges against Mr Norris are...
Lawmaker seeks answers after suspect in killing of border agent is released
LOS ANGELES -- A Republican congressman is accusing the Bush administration of failing to own up to "a huge blunder" that led to the release in Mexico of a man wanted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Rep. Brian Bilbray, who represents an area of...
Grainger Announces Resolution of Government Trade Agreements Act and Sourcing Case
CHICAGO, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grainger today announced that it has agreed to a settlement of $6 million, or $0.05 a share, with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve the Trade Agreements Act and Sourcing complaint, which had been unsealed in January 2008 in a federal court...
No charge for 'good faith' torture, memo says
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' would not cause "prolonged mental harm." That heavily censored memo, released...
EDS Announces European Commission Approval of Proposed Acquisition by HP and Settlement of Stockholder Litigation
PLANO, Texas, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS today announced that the European Commission has approved Hewlett-Packard Company's proposed acquisition of EDS without condition. This follows the previously announced expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 relating to the proposed acquisition without a...
HP Announces European Commission Approval of EDS Acquisition; Agrees to Settle Litigation Relating to Acquisition
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that the European Commission has approved without conditions HP's planned acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. HP and EDS announced on May 13, 2008, that they had signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price...
Prisoners' death row time doubles
The time prisoners spend on death row has nearly doubled during the past two decades. Legal experts predict it will rise further as states review execution procedures and prisoners pursue lengthy appeals. Waits rose from seven years in 1986 to 12 years in 2006, the latest Justice Department...
AMBER Alerts continue to decline
The number of AMBER Alerts, public announcements of a child's abduction, is falling as police use them only for kids in the most danger. The number of alerts fell from 275 in 2005 to 261 in 2006 and 227 last year, according to the National Center for Missing...
Waste Management Announces Hart-Scott-Rodino Filing for Intended Acquisition of Republic Services Shares
HOUSTON -- Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WMI) announced that today it is filing a Notification and Report Form under the Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 relating to purchases of shares of Republic Services, Inc. This filing also will initiate the United States Department of Justice's expected antitrust review of...
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