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- Sunbeam & the 'Iron Curtain': Why a Dual Test for Materiality Assessment Was Necessary
- The financial community will soon be presented with previously unknown errors in prior financial statements. These prior-period errors, although known by management and the companies' outside auditors, had not been corrected because they had not been deemed material. On September 16, 2006, the SEC released Staff Accounting Bulletin SAB 108,...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- E-mail Is Key in Judgment Against Morgan Stanley
- Financial powerhouse Morgan Stanley felt the pain of not being able to produce requested e-mail messages - a pain to the tune of $1.45 billion, by the time all was said and done. A jury found the securities firm guilty of defrauding Ronald Perelman, a prominent investor, in the course...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Judge increases verdict against Morgan Stanley to $1.58 billion
- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A judge added $130 million to the $1.45 billion verdict a jury awarded financier Ron Perelman in his fraud lawsuit against Morgan Stanley. Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Maass took off about $84.5 million from the verdict because of related settlements Perelman had previously...
- Research articles 2005-06-27
- Wall Street: Time to Invest in Some More E-Storage Space
- New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer taught corporate America that e-mails can get you in big trouble. Now a Florida judge has ruled that the e-mails you don't have may carry massive liabilities. This lesson stems from a case settled last week in which a jury ordered Morgan Stanley to...
- Research articles 2005-05-30
- Jury orders Morgan Stanley to pay Perelman 1.4 billion dollars
- NEW YORK AFP — A jury ordered Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley to pay billionaire Ronald Perelman more than 1.4 billion dollars in an investor fraud lawsuit. The jury in Florida added 850 million dollars in punitive damages to the 604 million dollars awarded earlier this week for the...
- Research articles 2005-05-18
- Jury awards financier $850 million more
- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Morgan Stanley must pay billionaire financier Ron Perelman more than $1.4 billion in damages, awarded by a jury saying it found clear evidence the investment firm acted fraudulently in Perelman's 1998 sale of his Coleman camping gear firm to Sunbeam Corp. The jury...
- Research articles 2005-05-19
- Billionaire wins big in lawsuit
- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Billionaire financier Ron Perelman won $604.3 million in compensatory damages Monday in a lawsuit accusing the investment bank Morgan Stanley of duping him about a takeover deal. The jury found that Perelman, the Revlon cosmetics chief, relied on false statements that Sunbeam Corp....
- Research articles 2005-05-17
- Summary of Significant Judicial Developments Affecting Secured Financing 2002 - 2003 Part Two
- Lender Liability Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Co. v. Progress Bank, 67 Fed.Appx. 343 (6th Cir. 2003) (Secured creditor who took over management of borrower to liquidate its collateral not liable to borrowers' creditors under theory of successor liability.) Allied Nut & Bolt Co. ("Allied") borrowed $2 million from Progress Bank,...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Legal notes
- Capital Factors, Inc. v. Kmart Corporation In re Kmart Corporation, 2003 WL 1868753, April 10, 2003 Opinion ("Critical trade vendor order" in Kmart Chapter 11 held to be inappropriate.) If there were a bankruptcy decision-of-the-month club, the likely winner for April 2003 would be this one. The decision, which has...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- NEWS.(multiple industry briefs)
- CHARGES SETTLED IN SUNBEAM SCANDAL Two former Sunbeam Corp. executives and a former Arthur Andersen partner agreed to settle civil charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission for their roles in a massive accounting scandal that helped push the company into bankruptcy. ...
- Research articles 2003-02-10
- Former Andersen Executive to Raise Capital at Miami-Area Investment Firm.
- By Patrick Danner, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Phillip E. Harlow, the disgraced Arthur Andersen partner who oversaw Sunbeam Corp.'s books before it sought bankruptcy protection, has landed at Richard C. Rochon's fledgling private investment firm. ...
- Research articles 2003-02-04
- Justice Department Probes Bankrupt Boca Raton, Fla., Appliance Maker.
- By Patrick Danner, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--The Justice Department is investigating "events that occurred" at Sunbeam Corp. while Albert J. Dunlap was head of the company, the Boca Raton appliance maker disclosed in a bankruptcy recovery...
- Research articles 2002-09-10
- Chainsaw Al fined $918,000 for fraud, banned for life.
- Sep 05, 2002 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) The former CEO of the now-bankrupt Sunbeam Corporation, Al Dunlap, has been fined $US500,000 ($A918,000). He has also been banned from ever again serving as an officer or director of a public company. On...
- Research articles 2002-09-05
- Former Sunbeam Chairman Is Barred from Being Public Company Officer, Director.
- By Patrick Danner, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 5--Albert J. Dunlap, the flamboyant corporate chieftain who earned the nickname "Chainsaw Al" for his ruthless cost cutting, has gotten clipped. Dunlap on Wednesday agreed to pay a $500,000...
- Research articles 2002-09-05
- Boca Raton, Fla., Has Long (Bad?) Rap Sheet in Business.
- By Jeff Ostrowski, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--BOCA RATON, Fla.--W.R. Grace & Co., Scott Paper Co., Sunbeam Corp. and, now, Tyco International Ltd. The huge conglomerate, which once fancied itself another General Electric ...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
- [0] THINGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.(Brief Article)
- 60 Seiko Quartz Wall Clock Seiko has a long tradition of fine watches and jewelry, dating to 1881, when Kintaro Hattori opened a clock shop in Tokyo under his own name. In 1968, Seiko introduced the quartz wall clock. The...
- Research articles 2002-05-27
- Melinda C. Ellsworth named Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations, of HON INDUSTRIES
- Business Editors MUSCATINE, Iowa--BUSINESS WIRE--March 7, 2002 Melinda C. Ellsworth has been named Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations, for Muscatine, Iowa, based HON INDUSTRIES Inc. Ellsworth was most recently the Vice President of International Finance and Treasury for Sunbeam Corporation in Boca Raton, FL. At HON...
- Research articles 2002-03-07
- Biddeford Textile of Maine Formulates Plan to Emerge from Bankruptcy.
- By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--Biddeford Textile Corp. of Maine announced a plan yesterday to emerge from bankruptcy protection, aiming to compete against its onetime parent, Sunbeam Corp., in the production of electric blankets. ...
- Research articles 2001-11-29
- NEWS BRIEFS.
- Saks to Unveil Home Decor Shop Saks Fifth Avenue's first-ever foray into complete home will come in the form of a new home decor gift shop at its New York flagship store in the next few months. The shop will...
- Research articles 2001-09-10
- Former Paper Executive's Trail of Failure Runs through Niagara Falls, N.Y.
- By David Robinson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 23--Over the years, Richard Cutting watched Albert J. Dunlap emerge as a celebrity CEO -- Rambo in Pinstripes or Chainsaw Al as he was called -- and wondered. ...
- Research articles 2001-07-23
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