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...million.The University also incurred “certain legal settlement costs,” the report said. Harvard’s balance sheet for fiscal 2005 includes a $26.5 million payment to the U.S. government to settle a breach of contract suit.The settlement stemmed from a civil fraud complaint brought against the University, economist Andrei Shleifer ’82, and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay.The annual report also revealed some of the financial plans for the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, a biomedical research center established jointly by Harvard and MIT to study the human genome.Both schools together...
...Zuma's troubles began in June when the Durban High Court convicted his friend and financial adviser Schabir Shaik on charges of corruption and fraud. Judge Hilary Squires said that Shaik had paid some $180,000 to Zuma in bribes, and had also helped a French arms trading company bribe Zuma to deflect corruption investigations over a $7.5 billion government deal to buy ships, submarines, helicopters, jets and other arms. Squires said that there was "overwhelming" evidence of a corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma. Soon after, President Mbeki sacked his deputy, saying that the court's verdict had "raised...
...policies and relying on computer authorization systems to track and limit returns and exchanges, and this year they're even more aware of fraudulent returns. Retailers say they are just trying to soften the hit they expect to take--as much as $30 billion each year--from theft and fraud. "Honest customers won't be denied when they're in the right," says Joseph LaRocca, vice president of loss prevention at the National Retail Federation. Guess who decides what "right...
YOUR OPPONENT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF, FORMER SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH, HAS VOWED TO KEEP FIGHTING THE ELECTION RESULTS IN COURT. HOW WILL YOU PACIFY HIS ANGRY YOUNG SUPPORTERS, WHO HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS SEVERAL TIMES THIS MONTH TO PROTEST THE ALLEGED VOTING FRAUD? I do not think these allegations can be substantiated. I will sit down with [his supporters] and assure them that it is in all of our interests to move forward. I am young at heart, and I think we can convince them to come on board...
...INDICTED. CONRAD BLACK, 61, former media baron; on eight criminal fraud charges; in Chicago. As chairman and chief executive of the Chicago-based newspaper group Hollinger International, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and one-time controller of Britain's Daily Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post, Black allegedly helped orchestrate a $32 million fraud. He was forced out in November 2003 when shareholders revolted over the surfacing allegations. Along with three other senior executives, Black is also accused of illegally pocketing $51.8 million from the sale of the company's Canadian newspaper assets, which he used to bankroll a lavish...