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...civil court, where the standard of proof is less stringent). Instead, the bulk of the charges against Lay allege that he helped keep the deceit alive after he resumed his role as CEO in August 2001, when Skilling abruptly resigned. The remaining charges deal with an obscure bank-fraud rule involving Lay's personal-loan applications. "I have to go home and look up something called a Reg U," Lay's attorney griped. "That's a stretch...
...ceiling, anytime soon. And the euro doesn't seem to be hurting from the violations - which raises the question of how crucial the stability and growth pact is in the first place. - With reporting by Tadeusz L. Kucharski Cutting Hedge The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to avert fraud in the growing $850 billion hedge fund industry, took a step toward requiring the funds' advisers to register with the regulator and open their books to inspection...
...BUSINESS ENRON: How much did Ken Lay know about his company's fraud...
...budget submissions from departments to the Finance Ministry are public. The fear of being publicly shamed is a powerful incentive not to put in exaggerated demands. "We're pretty satisfied how the money is spent," says Teemu Lehtinen, who heads Finland's 190,000-member Taxpayers' Association. Cut Waste, Fraud and Abuse Last year the French justice ministry set up several homes for teenage delinquents. For one of the first, it acquired an 18th century château in Normandy with a big park and swimming pool, where it employs 27 people to oversee eight young multiple offenders...
...structure and independence is likely to remain. One widely held belief is that the Kremlin will take the 60% share package currently owned by the company's former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a small group of close associates - one of them, Platon Lebedev, like Khodorkovsky, is on trial for fraud and other charges. Yukos might in effect be nationalized, with the government holding a controlling stake and the rest spread out among compliant domestic and foreign investors. Yukos' inexorable demise has made the markets nervous, and capital flight has jumped sharply. Destroying Yukos, warns Christof Ruehl, the World Bank...