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...Sarbanes-Oxley Act that President Bush signed into law this summer on the heels of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, he had a fit. The new law, which seeks to safeguard against fraudulent accounting, requires CEOs and CFOs to vouch for the accuracy of their company's books under oath. That "makes no sense," Wiedeking said last month. A company spokesman explains that hundreds of employees are involved in finalizing Porsche's accounts and that under German law the management board is collectively responsible for them, not any individual. Wiedeking's unease at the new rules is widely shared among...
Musharraf, who formally took the oath as president in June 2001 after coming to power in a bloodless military coup in 1999, also discussed his plans for political and social reform in Pakistan and the country’s rocky relations with India...
...subpoena her to appear in September despite the Justice Department investigation. He has been negotiating for weeks with Stewart's lawyers, who are trying to stave off a summons that would create a difficult choice for the Princess of Propriety: testify at the risk of contradicting herself under oath or assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The latter is her legal privilege, but would do nothing to help the stock of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which has fallen 65% since the ImClone news broke...
McGaffigan testified under oath that she is a Harvard “senior”—a claim that clashed with information provided this past week by officials from 20 Garden St. to the Barker Center...
...innocence in motions he filed in his own defense Moreover, judging from his words in court, the professed terrorist who'd chosen to defend himself suddenly appeared to be desperately seeking a plea bargain. Moussaoui may once have vowed to die for his cause and professed a loyalty oath to bin Laden, but on Thursday he declared his willingness to rat out bin Laden as a means of further postponing his journey into the next world...