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...blocking trade. The ice age that would descend is suggested by the withering view a bipartisan task force for the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations recently took of what Russia has already done in Ukraine: "A country that has in the space of a single year supported massive fraud in the elections of its largest European neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning off its gas supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed...
...Bogdanchikov promises investors, is "to set a new standard of corporate governance in Russian oil and gas." Try telling that to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch currently serving a jail sentence in Siberia. The Kremlin broke up his oil company, Yukos, in 2004 with a combination of criminal fraud charges against executives and massive back-tax claims that far exceeded the firm's revenue. Yukos' main oil-production unit was auctioned off to a single low bidder that turned out to be a front company for Rosneft. Those confiscated Yukos assets now constitute about 70% of Rosneft...
CONVICTED. Richard Scrushy, 53, founder of HealthSouth, based in Birmingham, Ala., and Don Siegelman, 60, former Democratic Governor of Alabama; of bribery and mail fraud for a scheme in which Scrushy gave $500,000 to Siegelman's campaign for a state lottery in exchange for a seat on a state board that regulated HealthSouth; by a federal jury; in Montgomery, Ala. The verdicts came one year after Scrushy, who still faces several civil trials, was acquitted of a $2.7 billion accounting fraud at HealthSouth...
...scheme to fund payouts, and vastly overcharging clients for stamps of negligible value, accusations that both companies insist are unfounded. Since then, five of the suspects have been released and Forum has filed for insolvency. Consumer-protection groups warned that collectibles companies are insufficiently regulated - and therefore susceptible to fraud - as early as 2002, but government authorities took no action. Now an estimated 350,000 Spaniards are affected, most of whom are small investors and many of whom are grouped in villages like Dosbarrios. The scandal's widespread reach suggests that, for all the country's recent economic growth, many...
...article by veteran investigative journalist David W. McClintick ’62 in the January issue of Institutional Investor magazine. In 18,000 words, the spellbinding narrative detailed the University’s effort to reform the Russian economy in the 1990s—and the fraud scandal that resulted. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that University employees who steered the project violated their federal contracts by making personal investments in the Russian economy, and Harvard paid $26.5 million to settle a government lawsuit.University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a March interview that he “skimmed?...