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Conrad Black shows his frugal side Title: Conrad Black shows his frugal side
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Filed in archive corporate crime by leon on December 30, 2006

In his latest filing, disgraced former media mogul Conrad Black has expressed concern about the way the receivers at Ravelston, which has a controlling stake in Hollinger International, and...

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Top scams of 2006 Title: Top scams of 2006
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Filed in archive risk by leon on December 29, 2006

What are the top scams of 2006?The lists are coming in from everywhere.One of the best comes from ConsumerAffairs.com. It's definitely one of the best because other sites and bloggers have...

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Private equity starts to lobby Title: Private equity starts to lobby
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Filed in archive markets by leon on December 29, 2006

private equity firms have joined forces to create a lobby group.The press release says the new Private Equity Council will educate policy-makers about the groups.Yeah right. That's code for...

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SEC's Christmas gift to Wall Street Title: SEC's Christmas gift to Wall Street
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 28, 2006

As if it wasn't bad enough reading about the record Christmas bonuses to Wall Street bosses and excessive lifestyles and spending habits of traders and bankers.Last Friday, the Securities and...

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Report that Apple falsified documents: don't worry, be happy say analysts Title: Report that Apple falsified documents: don't worry, be happy say analysts
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Filed in archive corporate reputation by leon on December 27, 2006

Federal prosecutors might have ammunition for legal action against Apple with a probe into whether Apple forged documents to enrich executives, reports The Recorder on the Law.com site.For the...

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SOX wars: Is the SOX fix a Band-Aid solution? Title: SOX wars: Is the SOX fix a Band-Aid solution?
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Filed in archive SOX by leon on December 27, 2006

Several weeks ago, I warned that the overhaul of Sarbanes-Oxley was not going to please everyone and that the SOX-bashers would say the changes had not gone far enough and that they amounted to...

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Nick Leeson blames the banks Title: Nick Leeson blames the banks
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Filed in archive Ethics by leon on December 26, 2006

Nick Leeson's latest ravings are nothing short of extraordinary.In February 1995, Leeson single-handedly bankrupted the bank that financed the Napoleonic Wars, the Louisiana Purchase and the Erie...

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AWB litigation blues Title: AWB litigation blues
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Filed in archive litigation by leon on December 26, 2006

The problems confronting Australian wheat export agency AWB which was slated last month by an Australian Government inquiry for slinging bribes to Saddam Hussein continue.Now, we have news that the...

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Excess all areas on Wall Street Title: Excess all areas on Wall Street
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 25, 2006

Ferraris, charter jets, multi-million dollar apartments and vacation homes...just some of the goodies picked up with the luxury spending this Christmas on Wall Street, reports Jenny Anderson at the...

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Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006 Title: Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006
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Filed in archive corporate governance by leon on December 25, 2006

What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments...

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Conrad Black's Christmas presents Title: Conrad Black's Christmas presents
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Filed in archive corporate crime by leon on December 23, 2006

Conrad Black's self-delusion gets more bizarre by the day.Just months before his fraud, racketeering and tax evasion trial is about to begin in Chicago, disgraced former media mogul Black is now...

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Christmas bonus time for Wall Street bosses Title: Christmas bonus time for Wall Street bosses
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 22, 2006

Last weekend, the news was buzzing that John Mack, the chief executive of Morgan Stanley, was given a $40m Christmas bonus, the biggest ever awarded to a Wall Street boss.True, the announcement was...

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Ann Baskins, Hewlett-Packard and the myopic organisation Title: Ann Baskins, Hewlett-Packard and the myopic organisation
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Filed in archive Ethics by leon on December 21, 2006

Interesting piece in Corporate Counsel on the role of HP's ex-general counsel Ann Baskins in the pretexting scandal.Baskins, as the piece points out, was in the best position to recognize the...

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Audit reform: the half-loaf solution Title: Audit reform: the half-loaf solution
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Filed in archive Accounting by leon on December 21, 2006

With the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board being dragged into court today to defend its constitutionality, it's time to look at its proposals this week to scrap the audit rule targeted by...

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Morgan Stanley's email woes continue Title: Morgan Stanley's email woes continue
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Filed in archive Compliance by leon on December 20, 2006

A definite pattern has emerged with what appears to be morgan stanley's cavalier attitude to emails.It looks like the brokerage might have to have to make payments to hundreds of investors in...

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Citigroup prop trading litigation Title: Citigroup prop trading litigation
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Filed in archive litigation by leon on December 19, 2006

Significant proceedings in the Federal Court in Sydney today with the Australian corporate regulator filing its amended statement of claim in its insider trading and failure to manage conflicts of...

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Lucky directors, lucky CEOs: the backdating club Title: Lucky directors, lucky CEOs: the backdating club
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 19, 2006

Last month, I did blog entry on the way hundreds of lucky US company bosses inflated their pay by as much as 10 per cent by secretly backdating share options, with the options being granted at the...

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Fannie Mae now a lawyers' picnic Title: Fannie Mae now a lawyers' picnic
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Filed in archive litigation by leon on December 19, 2006

As expected, Fannie Mae has turned into litigation city with the regulators now suing the mortgage giant's former leaders over their role in the multibillion dollar accounting scandal at the...

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Bad accountants executed as China cracks down on corruption Title: Bad accountants executed as China cracks down on corruption
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Filed in archive regulators by leon on December 18, 2006

If accountants think the regulators here are tough, spare a thought for Liu Yibing who has been sentenced to death in China for running a scam.Actually, it's all part of China's crackdown on...

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Is SOX unconstitutional? Title: Is SOX unconstitutional?
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Filed in archive SOX by leon on December 18, 2006

Totally unconstitutional says prosecutor Kenneth Starr in The Wall Street Journal.Starr, who lead the charge on Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky, is now heading up the constitutional challenge to the...

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