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...mails also made clear that the criteria for dismissing U.S. attorneys was not simply "performance-related issues" - as the Administration has asserted - but their aggressiveness in bringing prosecutions on G.O.P. signature political issues like immigration and drugs , as well as the sensitive matter of alleged voter fraud...
Accounting, I admit, is not the normal stuff of true-crime drama. But among accused finaglers walking perplike into court, former bean counters at accounting firm KPMG have more cause than most to question White House tactics against financial fraud...
...eases the job of determining what went wrong, who bears responsibility--and how to prevent future misconduct. Besides, the government can file relatively few cases, while private shareholders can sue a swindler whenever they feel wronged. Egregious misconduct may merit jail, but if the Administration is serious about keeping fraud in check, it won't rely on criminal cases to get the message...
...made the Bush Administration look tough on financial fraud. The accountants seem headed for criminal trials, and KPMG coughed up $456 million to settle separately with the government. Yet just when we're prepared to be impressed, the White House pulls a U-turn...
Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford Law School professor, attributes a recent drop in shareholder lawsuits to aggressive government enforcement following the Enron fraud. But others say Grundfest discounts more likely causes: a relatively steady stock market and the criminal investigation of the law firm that files most shareholder suits. And even if he's right, a strategy of criminal prosecution is still a bad idea...