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...commercial success of Rings, relations between Jackson and New Line should have been rosy - studio and director each deserved credit for the other's good fortune. But the partnership soured over disputes about New Line's accounting for that fortune. In 2005, Jackson sued, claiming that New Line committed fraud in its handling of the revenues generated by 2001's The Fellowship of the Ring, underpaying him by millions. As Jackson and New Line's lawyers and accountants tangled over paper, the director and Shaye engaged in a bitter battle...
South Korean election campaigns are famous for dramatic events in the eleventh hour, and this presidential election is proving to be no different. On Monday, just two days before the Dec. 19 polls, Korea's parliament, the National Assembly, approved a plan to open an investigation into allegations of fraud against presidential front-runner Lee Myung Bak. The Assembly greenlighted the probe after a video surfaced over the weekend of a lecture Lee gave in 2000, in which he claimed that he set up Korean investment firm BBK, a connection he had previously denied. Kim Kyung Joon, the head...
...Florida, where just 537 votes determined the victory for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, officials remain especially conscious of an effort to make sure everyone eligible can vote, just not at the expense of potential voter fraud. Those two competing interests are at issue in a federal voter registration lawsuit argued this week, and expected to be decided next week, in Gainesville, which could affect whether tens of thousands of citizens who reside in the state will have their vote count in upcoming elections...
...Attorneys for the state of Florida, in court documents, referred to the law as a "common-sense anti-fraud measure" and pointed out that the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires everyone who signs up to vote and has a driver's license to provide that number on the application. All other applicants should provide the last four digits of their Social Security number (provided they have...
...register them anyway," she says. Hearn also points out that since Jan. 1, 2006, some 1.5 million voters have been registered in Florida. While conceding that 14,000 other applicants have yet to get on the voter rolls, Hearn maintains that her main concern pertains to the potential for fraud with absentee ballots. "Our concerns lie not in the in-person voting but in the absentee voting where a person doesn't have to go to the polls," Hearn says. "Once they get registered they can vote absentee. That's extremely difficult to detect...