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• Corporate America's woes, continued - Enron: one year on; The anniversary of a shocking bankruptcy.

  The aftershocks from Enron's downfall a year ago still reverberate The aftershocks from Enron's downfall a year ago still reverberate

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• Effects of Enron on future Russian business leaders: a time line survey

  Russia has emerged as a new capitalistic country with a prior history of corruption under the state controlled regime. Will word of corruption in America stop efforts for an ethical business climate in the new Russia? Has the Enron scandal affected Russian views of business? In pursuit of the answer,...

  Articles 2008-12-01

• Documentaries of all kinds

  A rich array of documentaries can be found on DVD this fall, from the absurd and comical to the tragic. The Rape of Europa  from Menemsha Films (www.menemshafilms.com; $29.95. not rated) is a thrilling film based on Robert M. Edsel's book,  Rescuing Da Vinci , which details how the Nazis...

  Articles 2008-10-24

• Constellation Energy Resumes Construction of 774-Megawatt Hillabee Energy Center, an Industrial Info News Alert

  Researched by Industrial Info Resources(Sugar Land, Texas) -- Constellation Energy Group Incorporated (NYSE:CEG)(Baltimore, Maryland) resumed construction of the Hillabee Energy Centerthis month near Alexander City, Alabama, after receiving the final permitin September. The plant, which Constellation acquired from CalpineCorporation (NYSE:CPN) (San Jose, California) in February 2008, had stoppedconstruction in 2003...

  Articles 2008-10-20

• Southwestern Energy Appoints New Senior Vice President

  HOUSTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwestern Energy Company today announced the appointment of Jeffrey B. Sherrick as Senior Vice President - Exploitation of its subsidiaries, SEECO, Inc. and Southwestern Energy Production Company, effective today. Mr. Sherrick will be responsible for the company's North American oil and gas...

  Articles 2008-10-15

• Former Enron lead prosecutor John Hueston tells his court tale

  CORRESPONDENT DANVILLE -- John Hueston, former lead prosecutor in the Enron trial, talked to a riveted crowd Tuesday morning about how to spot ethical pitfalls in business Regaling his audience with details of the now infamous collapse of energy giant Enron, Hueston revealed the...

  Articles 2008-10-14

• Eliminate Enron accounting

  In a court settlement, quietly announced on Sept. 9, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and others agreed to pay $7.2 billion dollars to Enron shareholders. Being the masterminds behind "Enron accounting," is it any wonder that these companies spent the last decade infecting the entire global financial...

  Articles 2008-10-13

• A ripsote to the Archbishop

  When Rowan Williams and John Sentamu took up their crosiers against shortsellers, they chose strange company: Ken Lay, the disgraced chief executive of Enron, Dennis Kozlowski, the jailed boss of Tyco (who took out full-page ads against short-sellers, before his company sank under the burden of accounting fraud) and the...

  Articles 2008-10-11

• Powers separation case may yield a blockbuster high court ruling

  A dispute one appellate judge called the most important separation-of-powers case involving presidential appointment and removal authority in 20 years could reach the U.S. Supreme Court toward the end of the justices' current term. Whether this term or next, says an Oklahoma law professor, it could supply...

  Articles 2008-10-07

• Upheaval in the Financial Markets Sharpens the Focus on Information Governance and Enterprise Transparency

  Fuels Trend to Improve Oversight and Control of Enterprise Information to Proactively Mitigate Risk, Prepare for Next Wave of Compliance Pressures Improving Processes, Reducing Costs Keys to Success in Volatile Global Economy CHICAGO, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While no one can predict the full impact...

  Articles 2008-10-06

• Lehman 'may take 10 years to wind up'

  The Lehman Brothers administration will not be completed until 2018 at the earliest, according to the man in charge of selling and winding down the failed bank's European assets. Tony Lomas, the chairman of business restructuring at PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC, said: "Based on industry experience, including cases like...

  Articles 2008-10-05

• Credit crisis diary

  After naked greed, just get naked Playboy magazine is hoping female City traders will lose their shirts all over again. It's looking for 20 models for a forthcoming "Women of Wall Street" feature that is meant to mark the credit crisis - and for hard-pressed ex-bankers, the...

  Articles 2008-10-04

• This week's platinum picks

  Taxi to the Dark Side ***1/2, 2008, ThinkFilm/Image, unrated, $28 Director Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning documentary beat No End in Sight, which would have been my choice. But Gibney also was executive producer of Sight after he directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Did someone...

  Articles 2008-10-03

• Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. Returns Additional $829 Million to Creditors in Latest Distribution

  To date Estate has returned total of $21.428 Billion HOUSTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., f/k/a Enron Corp., today announced its twenty-fourth distribution to creditors of Enron and its affiliated Debtor companies. Today's distribution to holders of allowed general unsecured claims and allowed...

  Articles 2008-10-01

• SEC Report and Recent Class Action Spell Trouble for Rating Agencies

  In 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC performed an analysis of the role of rating agencies in the financial markets, largely in response to the rating agencies' failure to alert investors to the impending collapse of Enron Corp. and WorldCom. The SEC's findings led to passage of the Credit...

  Articles 2008-10-01

• Future of Sarbanes-Oxley, The

  An Exclusive Interview with Former U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Paul S. Sarbanes served in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1970, where he introduced the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. He was a Democratic U.S. senator from Maryland from 1977 to 2007,...

  Articles 2008-10-01

• Strategic Planning Initiatives Offers Five Critical Tips for Correcting the Carnage on Wall Street

  CHICAGO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by Strategic Planning Initiatives: THE ENRON-LIKE SYSTEM MUST STOP: The Current state of the market place has an "Enron-Like" system in place. This Carnage On Wall Street makes a mockery of our system of good governance. ...

  Articles 2008-09-22

• Accounting For Integrity

  Workforce Management: How do you see the downfall of Bear Stearns and major losses at other Wall Street firms as an integrity issue? Ben Heineman: We haven't had detailed public postmortems yet at Bear Stearns and other major financial service firms. We do know that it is not...

  Articles 2008-09-22

• Get real with your real estate dealings: as federal regulators continue to expand the reach of Sarbanes-Oxley, directors and CEOs who sign off on conflict-ridden real estate leases may find themselves facing enforcement actions

  ENRON AND ITS PROGENY caused a dramatic shift in the regulatory paradigm for American business. The excesses of off-balance-sheet financing, blatant conflicts of interest, and directorial inaction on which Enron helped focus global attention prompted Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX, with its tough transparency and stricter internal corporate...

  Articles 2008-09-22

• Contra Costa Times Sept. 22 letters

  The free market economic values of conservatives, such as low taxes and business deregulation, seem appealing. But do they work? The Bush administration adopted these values over the last eight years. This has been a disaster. Loose regulations and oversight gave businesses a license...

  Articles 2008-09-21