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The board's decision came after the sentencing on Monday of Reinhard Siekaczek, a former midlevel manager in Siemens' telecommunications business, the first conviction in connection with the bribery scandal, which became public in late 2006 and may reach back to 2000. Siekaczek admitted to overseeing a system in which...
Shareholder advocates suggest that the Siemens board may have another motive, too: to build goodwill with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC is conducting its own investigation into the bribery affair and could slap hefty fines on the company unless Siemens demonstrates that it is taking convincing action...
But things didn't turn out as the Administration planned. In 2004, Swift, Hamdan's Pentagon-appointed lawyer, persuaded his client to reject the government's tentative offer for a guilty plea--20 years' imprisonment in exchange for full cooperation, including testifying at the military commissions of other detainees. Together...
9 | Geneva Different Policy, Same Results In its highest-level negotiations with Tehran since 1979, the U.S. sent a top diplomat to join international talks in Switzerland intended to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions. The talks stalled, however, when Tehran refused to temporarily halt its nuclear program in exchange for...
That was likely to have been the most sensitive topic. Several weeks ago, it was reported that some senior European leaders were unhappy with Obama's proposal for the U.S. to talk directly with high-level Iranians. The fear on this side of the Atlantic is that such a move...