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...about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal judge found that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud." It felt, Rowling says, "as if some strange woman had come out of nowhere saying she was my children's mother ... It was like a punch in the stomach. People think that if you have been successful, you are insulated from normal feelings of hurt, but you aren...
EXECUTIVES: Former CEO Richard Scrushy denied allegations of accounting fraud and hasn't yet been charged with any crime. But 11 former employees have pleaded guilty...
EXECUTIVES: Five executives have been indicted for fraud, including founder John Rigas, above, and two of his sons. They pleaded not guilty, and a trial is set for January...
EXECUTIVES: Former CFO Andrew Fastow has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. Ex-chairman Ken Lay, left, and former CEO Jeff Skilling have yet to be charged with any crimes...
...fines. He had tipped off family and friends to sell ImClone shares a day before the company announced that its application to market a cancer drug was rejected. Waksal's friend, American lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who sold her ImClone stock before the announcement, has been charged with securities fraud and obstruction of justice...