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...Gayoom introduced a "roadmap" toward multi-party democracy, but it is unlikely the incremental changes allowed in the past few years would have come about without the efforts of activists who had long been frozen out of the political mainstream. "A free press, an independent judiciary, an auditor general - it took Gayoom nearly three decades to even consider these things," says Moosa, the self-exiled activist who is also editor of the online Dhivehi Observer...
...pursuit of a traditional prosecution remains a powerful force at the Justice Department. It is hard to reward agents for walking away from cases. For now, terrorism expert Jenkins is comforted by one fact. "You do have an ultimate auditor against abuse or error, which is a judge and jury. It is up to them to look into the eyes of the informant and the defendants and decide who is telling the truth." Early next year, the Fort Dix defendants will have their chance. It will be as much a trial of their intent as it is of the government...
...office provided, leading the paper to request his travel receipts from City Hall. Reeves first refused the request, but after the city auditor’s office said it would release records of his expenditures, he said he never kept the receipts in the first place. When the auditor ultimately released his credit card records to the Chronicle in April, the paper reported Reeves had spent over $8,400 in decorating expenses for his office alone...
...event, KPMG's reluctance to let regulators inspect backup documents pushed the feds' buttons. By 2004, Justice had launched a criminal investigation. A federal indictment helped kill Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen, in 2002, so KPMG tried to avoid indictment by doing pretty much whatever the government wanted. That included cutting off the payment of legal fees for indicted employees. The groveling worked for KPMG, which dodged indictment, but not for the 16 indicted employees, who couldn't afford their lawyers. A New York federal judge ruled that they could sue KPMG for their legal bills (KPMG has appealed...
CYNTHIA COOPER 2002 >THE AMERICAN VOTER Cooper was an auditor at WorldCom, where she blew the whistle on financial fraud...