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Corporate Raiders In the latest twist in the Vivendi saga, French investigators launched a probe nto the indebted media company's accounts, seizing documents from its headquarters...
...years, it still managed to paper over its books. When the Internet bubble burst early in 2000, it took down many of WorldCom's biggest customers. The slide accelerated after regulators blocked the firm's $129 billion acquisition of Sprint in July 2000. In March the SEC launched a probe into how and why WorldCom had loaned Ebbers $366 million, most of which he ostensibly used to purchase WorldCom shares. The SEC also looked at the company's books just as scandals at other telecoms--Global Crossing and Qwest--were spooking investors. The loans led to Ebbers' ouster...
Faneuil says he knew of no stop-loss order by Stewart, and Merrill officials have found no reliable evidence that such an order existed. They have turned documents from their internal probe over to government investigators. Neither Bacanovic nor Faneuil nor their lawyers would comment...
...Glenn, 60, a private consultant on African development issues. When the mother could get around only with a walker and the family felt she shouldn't live alone, a friend's trusted caretaker became available. When the Slocums grew concerned about her driving at age 85, they would probe gently, "Mom, are you still comfortable driving?" She would reply that she drove only to the grocery store, church and her women's groups. "It went in stages," recalls Slocum, "until she finally gave it up herself, which she hated...
...forces in Bosnia, told an audience recently in the capital Sarajevo. The irony is that Islamic charities have also done a great deal of good funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in aid into the Bosnian economy since 1991, supporting everything from mosques to war orphans' education. Already the probe has triggered angry rebuttals from Muslim ambassadors and aid groups who say investigators are casting too wide a net. Just last week the deputy director of Bosnia's antiterrorism commission quit because he said his government was focusing too much on Muslims and not enough on known war criminals like...