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Amount a lawsuit alleges a former Wal-Mart vice chairman siphoned off via bogus expense reports and misuse of company gift cards, charges he denies...
...March: After an eight-day trip to Africa, Wilson reports to the CIA that he believes the allegations are "bogus." The agency sends a March 9 memo to the White House summarizing Wilson's findings...
Where the bogus tale originated was unclear. At the New York Stock Exchange, officials tried to pinpoint exactly when Pennzoil's shares started on their unearthly ascent. Said N.Y.S.E. Vice President Richard Torrenzano: "We noticed greater activity both in terms of price and volume by late morning on Tuesday." In Houston, Liedtke first learned of the stock spurt when he received a call in his office atop Pennzoil Place. Said he: "I could only guess that there had been some kind of leak by Texaco about the offer they were going to make." Liedtke later sent a cable...
...serious charges of cutting corners to make AIG's financial might appear greater than reality, and in so doing ripping off shareholders who have lost nearly $50 billion in the value of their stock since Spitzer served the first subpoena. In Spitzer's suit, he alleges that AIG, through bogus transactions, inflated the reserves it keeps to pay claims by hundreds of millions of dollars; that Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late in the day to buy AIG shares to prop up its price; and that AIG booked underwriting losses as investment losses to project a healthier core business...
There is sufficient documentation to authenticate Wagener's life and writing, a comforting thought after the embarrassment of the bogus Hitler diaries and other artifacts fobbed off as pieces of the true Hakenkreuz. The only caution is that Hitler's commentaries and fanciful redundancies on history, race and destiny were reconstructed by Wagener 14 to 17 years after the events he describes. But since Hitler made a lasting impression on millions, it is not farfetched to assume that a disciple who spent hundreds of hours basking in Führerspeak could reproduce the substance and tone of his master's voice...