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Corporate watchdogs were panting last week as not one but three former CEOs started trial: WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers, HealthSouth's Richard Scrushy and Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, with the latter back in court after a mistrial. --By Julie Rawe...
...international listings have fallen by half since 2001 and may halve again this year. Indeed, the London Stock Exchange is using rising U.S. compliance costs as a marketing tool. John Thain, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, allows that reforms have "come at a cost." Meanwhile, lawyers for HealthSouth founder...
...COOKING THE BOOKS Enron's Ken Lay, who last week agreed to hand over records to the SEC, and Jeffrey Skilling are poster boys for business-accounting scandals, but they have not been charged. (Other Enron executives have been.) HealthSouth's Richard Scrushy was accused of inflating earnings, while WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers faces securities-fraud charges in Oklahoma. Both men have pleaded not guilty...
...active fraud investigation hasn't kept buyers from snapping up millions of shares of embattled HealthSouth. In Chicago an investment club took a flyer on bankrupt UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, believing that the stock was set to soar. More than 57 million shares of bankrupt WorldCom were traded last Thursday on news that WorldCom had reached a revised settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will give some shareholders stock in the new company when it comes out of bankruptcy. True, but this applies only to people who owned WorldCom before June 25, 2002. When WorldCom...
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