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...report where their money goes. Private companies don't. And potential donors who balk at USAgain's for-profit status may be even less pleased to know that the firm is run by Scandinavians associated with a secular cult whose leaders are on trial in Denmark for tax fraud and embezzlement. No USAgain executives have been accused of any wrongdoing, and Wallander says of the cult, "That has nothing to do with how I run this business." But knowing that it is a business might influence where donors drop off their clothes. --With reporting by Polly Forster/Seattle and Noah Isackson/Chicago
...author Tom Tucker's evidence is slim. He makes much of the improbability of flying a kite weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific fraud seems wildly out of character for Franklin. As Harvard chemist and Franklin buff Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel laureate, notes, "It would have been utterly inconsistent with all of his other work in [science] for him to claim he'd done something...
...help comparing Martha Stewart's declarations of innocence to charges of obstruction of justice and securities fraud [BUSINESS, June 16] with the reports that she might have been willing to accept a plea bargain if she could be guaranteed no jail time. What was she going to plead guilty to if not a crime? This is not just public relations. Stocks rise and fall on Stewart's public utterances. Would her plea of guilty in return for no jail time have been a lie? TONY ACCETTA New York City...
...bauble, a sports team: London's Chelsea Football Club. Not so good for Mikhail Khodorkovsky ($8 billion) of the giant Yukos group, who was questioned by state prosecutors investigating corruption. And downright terrible for Platon Lebedev ($1 billion), head of Khodorkovsky's finance arm Menatep, who was arrested on fraud charges in connection with the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, was questioned in connection with the Lebedev case, but many believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping fund opposition parties in the December elections for the Duma, or lower house...
Before he returned to his alma mater in 1994, Iuliano worked on cases involving drug, tax, fraud, money-laundering and labor law at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston...