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...bewildering days after the 2000 presidential election, only one thing seemed clear: the American voting system was in need of a drastic overhaul. Across the country, elected officials promised their weary constituents new voting machines, better registration systems and anti-fraud measures - all to be put in place well before Election...
...exempted from the account-certification rule. Their petition was rejected. Now, a broader movement is stirring behind the scenes, as national business federations across Europe seek to coordinate a common position with the European Commission. The goal of Sarbanes-Oxley - to restore public confidence and prevent future mass fraud - is widely applauded. It's the details that are exasperating: the new regulations don't take into account significant differences in the way their companies are managed and audited, Europeans say, and would require the adoption of practices that are burdensome and at times at odds with their own national laws...
...corporate "gotcha!" moment that seemed to have it all--longer than a perp walk, more than just a Senate hearing. Former Enron managing director Michael Kopper's guilty plea to wire fraud and money laundering appeared to promise future boons for government prosecutors, who are counting on him to incriminate his bosses, and for defrauded Enron investors, employees and pensioners, who may win back some of the ill-gotten spoils. In court documents, Kopper detailed the schemes that he says he ran with former CFO Andrew Fastow, schemes that cost the energy giant more than $1 billion. (Fastow...
...cannot instantly tip off a criminal squad, so the would-be villains can be rounded up. Also, the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy is undermined; evidence produced by FISA wiretaps cannot be used to support an arrest for a mundane crime like credit-card fraud. Ashcroft and his aides regard the situation as silly and dangerous. "We've been trying to break the wall down so we can deal with this threat that is always crossing the wall," says an Ashcroft aide, "and this is putting walls back up." --By Elaine Shannon
...noted that radical Islamist groups, including those linked with al-Qaeda, have over the years built an elaborate criminal infrastructure - relying on low-key logistical operatives rather than their best-trained combatants - that can generate a continuous flow of funds through seemingly apolitical petty crime, such as credit card fraud, car theft and so on. Even if these operatives are caught, they have in many instances been tried, convicted and sentenced to short spells in prison without their terror connection becoming apparent. Of course such actions can only generate jihad in increments of $5,000 to $10,000 per crime...