Word: ownership
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Since then, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Hoffenberg with using false financial statements to sell more than $400 million in securities. When his bid to take over the Post ran aground, he struck a deal with Hirschfeld to share ownership. After this liaison went asunder, the bankruptcy court on March 12 turned over the paper to Hirschfeld, who promptly axed Hamill. Within hours, the mutiny was under way. The cause of the Post staff's animus toward its new chief was twofold. One, Hirschfeld fired 72 employees. Two, he once spat on a reporter from the Miami Herald...
Indian leaders claim the Bombay explosions were masterminded by foreign forces, possibly Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. Piecing together a car bomb that exploded in the basement garage of the Air India skyscraper, Bombay police traced the ownership of vehicles used in the attacks to one of the city's main Muslim underworld families, the Memons. The six Memon brothers fled to Dubai shortly before the explosions, but police managed to arrest two hirelings who were allegedly paid $167 to plant some of the bombs...
...example, apparently they have some sort of ownership interest in a Boston hotel," Lund wrote. "I gather they'd like to sell it. Publication of the value they place on it for their internal records is not going to help them negotiate a good price...
...News Corp. board meeting in the summer of 1991, when Diller made some suggestions that seemed to be ignored. "I had the feeling I was an unwanted voice chiming in," he says. "I thought, 'My God, I really am an employee.' " Diller asked if Murdoch could create a principal ownership role for him in the company. When Murdoch said no, Diller decided to leave...
...representative said the business, owned by a banker, a doctor and "two boys from the 'hood," will "help people learn about ownership...