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...self-incrimination. Says his spokesman, Gordon Andrew: "Our position remains that Mr. Fastow acted with the full knowledge and approval of Enron's board of directors, its office of the chairman, which included Mr. Lay and Mr. Skilling, and its internal and external auditors and legal advisers." His former boss, Jeffrey Skilling, who quit as Enron CEO last August, had no such hesitation, insisting to his incredulous interrogators that things had gone swimmingly on his watch...
...Ironically, Rajoub seemed to have learned from his boss, telling the media on Wednesday that there had been no quarrel and that to challenge Arafat "at a time when Israeli tanks are 70 meters from his office would be the height of treachery." Nonetheless, insider accounts suggest that Rajoub was essentially urging Arafat to provide public political backing for the orders he gives in private, making clear to the Palestinian rank-and-file where their leader stands. But Arafat is habitually inclined to ambiguity, which has allowed him room for the maneuvering that has been the hallmark of his more...
...trial attorney Geoffrey Nice was in Belgrade last month interviewing key figures whose testimony would be invaluable. They included Rade Markovic, once head of state security, now in a Belgrade prison facing murder charges: the threat of a long prison sentence might persuade him to rat on his old boss. Nice also interviewed Mihalj Kertes, former chief of the powerful customs service, and the notorious Franko "Frenki" Simatovic, the commander of the feared Red Berets, a police unit accused of spearheading ethnic cleansing from Croatia to Kosovo. Three men indicted with Milosevic - ex-Defense Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic, Serbia's former...
...possibility the trader had colluded with others, within the bank or outside. It also suspended five senior executives at Allfirst, though it hasn't accused them of wrongdoing. "Clearly, controls broke down," said Susan Keating, president of the Baltimore unit, "and we don't wholly understand how." Her boss in Dublin, Allied Irish chief executive Michael Buckley, suggested that no controls could hold back a trader determined to commit fraud. "You have a wonderful alarm system in your house," he said, "but someone who has a reasonable amount of skill and a certain amount of knowledge about what happens inside...
...says his boss, RMAS Director Deloris Pettis-Donaldson, sent an e-mail to RMAS staff last Thursday saying the number of student group audits might have to increase...