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- World briefs: Call to delay new FBI rules
- USA: New rules on FBI investigations of US national security cases should be delayed, say top Senate Judiciary Committee members. Their views are over concerns that ethnic or racial groups could be targeted despite no evidence of wrongdoing. In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey the senators called for...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Little change in case of Marvin Harrison
- Little has changed since NFL star Marvin Harrison was linked to a North Philadelphia shooting two weeks ago.Harrison still has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but national interest in the April 29 incident remains high.That night, Harrison was involved in a fistfight with a 32-year-old man on Thompson Street...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- Israeli PM fights for political life in bribery scandal
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was facing mounting calls on Friday to resign over a criminal probe into allegations he took bribes from a millionaire US financier. Olmert has vehemently denied any wrongdoing but said he would quit if he is charged in a case that...
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- Aide to Bush resigns amid fund allegations
- WASHINGTON AP -- An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization. Felipe Sixto was promoted on March 1 as a special assistant to the president for...
- Research articles 2008-03-29
- Dissident ayatollah says freedom lacking in Iran
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's most prominent dissident cleric has complained freedom is being "sacrificed" in the Islamic republic, pointing to the mass disqualification of candidates for March parliamentary elections. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once seen as the successor as supreme leader to revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, also...
- Research articles 2008-02-20
- Peru's Fujimori says unaware of spy chief's wrongdoings
- LIMA, Peru AFP — Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, on trial for murder and other alleged rights violations during his 1990-2000 rule, said Friday he was unaware of the wrongdoings carried out by his right-hand man and spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos. "Mr Montesinos had an extensive network of corruption," Fujimori...
- Research articles 2007-12-14
- Israeli police clear PM in bank sale case
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli police Thursday cleared Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a case involving the sale of the country's second largest bank, a major boost for the premier as he returned home from a US peace conference. "There is insufficient evidence to indict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in...
- Research articles 2007-11-29
- Mayor Nagin: La. Sen. Shepherd allegations 'reckless'
- Mayor C. Ray Nagin denies being "the subject of any investigation of wrongdoing" after a state senator on Wednesday said the FBI has questioned him about Nagin. State Sen. Derrick Shepherd, D-Marrero, said the FBI asked him months ago if he had evidence of wrongdoing by Nagin, Rep....
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- US military probing new allegations of Iraq war crimes
- SAN DIEGO, United States AFP — The United States military said Tuesday it is investigating "credible allegations" of wrongdoing by US Marines in Iraq during fighting in Fallujah three years ago. Responding to reports that Marines allegedly killed several Iraqi prisoners of war, Naval Criminal Investigative Service spokesman Ed...
- Research articles 2007-07-03
- BAE bought plane for Saudi prince under arms deal: report
- LONDON AFP — Britain's defence giant BAE bought Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan an Airbus plane under a multi-billion pound arms deal and is still paying the costs of flying it, the Guardian newspaper said Friday. The latest allegation met with renewed denials of wrongdoing from BAE, which said...
- Research articles 2007-06-15
- BAE denies secretly paying Saudi prince more than one billion pounds
- LONDON AFP — British defence firm BAE denied a news report on Thursday that it had secretly paid a Saudi Arabian prince more than one billion pounds in connection with Britain's biggest weapons deal. There was "no case to answer", the company said, denying any wrongdoing. The Guardian...
- Research articles 2007-06-07
- SOX and whistleblowing.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
- The language of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") leaves no doubt that Congress intended whistleblowing to be an integral part of its enforcement mechanisms. The Act attempts to encourage and protect whistleblowers in a variety of ways, including providing for anonymous whistleblowing, establishing criminal penalties for retaliation...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Steelers show confidence in team doc
- PITTSBURGH, United States AFP — Pittsburgh Steelers club president Art Rooney II insisted Thursday there was no evidence linking one of their team doctors to an internet steroid scandal providing performance-enhancing drugs to players. In a statement released by the National Football League squad, Rooney said team officials will...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Punishment by the people: rethinking the jury's political role in assigning punitive damages.
- INTRODUCTION In the past decade the Supreme Court did something--twice--it has never done before: it struck down a punitive damages award for violating the United States Constitution. (1) In each case, the awards had been determined by an elaborate choreography, including the parties and...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- USADA clears two banned cyclists of wrongdoing
- COLORADO SPRINGS, United States AFP — One-year bans imposed on US cyclists Cale Redpath and Alice Pennington were dismissed by the US Anti-Doping Agency after an investigation cleared them of any wrongdoing. Each was banned after being a no-show for a random doping test as a reserve athlete in...
- Research articles 2007-01-31
- ROLE OF FINANCIAL JOURNALISTS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, THE
- INTRODUCTION Recent corporate scandals have caused many corporate law scholars to re-evaluate a great deal of corporate law orthodoxy. In a recent essay, Michael Klausner highlighted the limits of corporate law in promoting good corporate governance and called for scholars to devote greater attention to extralegal enforcement mechanisms.1 A great...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Con-way to Pay $10 Million To Settle Emery Air Lawsuit
- Transportation and logistics company Con-way Inc. said Nov. 14 that it will pay $10 million to settle a government lawsuit over alleged over-billing at a defunct air unit.Con-way, San Mateo, Calif., said it admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.Con-way closed Emery Worldwide Airlines in 2001, following a Federal Aviation Administration...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
- The Role of Attorneys Under Sarbanes-Oxley: The Qualified Legal Compliance Committee as Facilitator of Corporate Integrity
- I. INTRODUCTIONThe Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley),1 along with new Securities and Exchange Commission SEC rules adopted pursuant to it, have federalized much of American corporate law.2 With the adoption of Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress and the SEC seek to limit corporate misconduct through two devices. First, they expand accountability of corporate...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Sarbanes-Oxley's Structural Model To Encourage Corporate Whistleblowers
- I. Introduction........................................................................ 1107 II. The Need To Encourage More Effective Whistleblowing .... 1109 A. Information Problems and Traditional Corporate Monitors............................................................................. 1109 B. Overcoming Information Problems-Employees as Corporate Monitors............................................................. 1109 III. Two Whistleblower Models......................................
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- World Bank fraud claims harming Cambodia: ministry
- PHNOM PENH AFP — Fraud claims in several World Bank aid projects have badly damaged Cambodia's reputation abroad, the finance ministry has said, demanding the bank offer up proof of wrongdoing. In a ministry statement published in a local newspaper -- the second this week -- it also questioned...
- Research articles 2006-06-16
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