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Dr. Death shops book on his life dr. jack kevorkian is shopping a book to New York publishers about his life and the euthanasia controversy he sparked in the early 1990s, when he began helping terminally ill patients commit suicide. The Life of Dr...
Tauzin blasts networks for Enron Crawls. (Policy).(Broadcast and cable networks criticized)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La) says corporations that expect political favors in return for funding his campaigns are wasting their money. But the House Commerce Committee chairman is nonetheless upset at broadcast and cable networks WASHINGTON...
Congress Set For Spate of Enron Hearings
Congress Set For Spate of Enron Hearings Congress Set For Spate of Enron Hearings
House Education and Workforce Committee to Launch Enron Retirement Plan Hearings
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce next week will launch a series of bipartisan hearings to examine the Enron collapse and its implications for the retirement security of America's workers, ChairWASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. House Committee on...
Enron Ends Hearings Before Pennsylvania Regulators on Peco Competition.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Nov. 20--Enron Corp. ended three days of hearings before the Public Utility Commission Wednesday without squelching doubts about the viability of its proposal to double the electric rate cuts promised by Peco Energy. Nov. 20--Enron Corp. ended three days of hearings...
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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