Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think we are dealing with a very serious problem here. With what we know and what we already knew, to me, the honorable thing to do would be to resign." - Calling on President Clinton to resign during the Monica Lewinsky scandal (AP, Sept...
...that the shares as well as over $4 billion in profits that Starr International has reaped from past AIG stock sales were meant to fund a long-standing deferred-compensation program for AIG employees - a program that Greenberg, 84, halted after his acrimonious ouster from AIG amid an accounting scandal...
...District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, who is hearing the case, has said he wants to limit the case to the facts surrounding the relationship between Starr and AIG. Rakoff says he will not allow jurors to hear testimony about the accounting scandal that led to Greenberg's AIG exit or anything related to the insurance company's recent financial troubles, which resulted in a huge government bailout. Excluding the circumstances of Greenberg's exit may make it hard for AIG to prove that he ended Starr's AIG compensation plan because he was angry he had lost...
...sensitive cases these lawyers have handled include illegal land seizures, representing victims of faulty products, like in last year's tainted-milk scandal, defending Tibetans accused of agitating for independence and, as in Li's case, defending followers of Falun Gong. "Lawyers no longer serve only as instruments of political control like how they were expected to perform from the 1950s to the 1970s," says Albert Ho, a Hong Kong solicitor and chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. "With the opening and liberalization of China, it needs to build a system of law and a sound legal system...
...Anderson, who had been Apple's CFO until retiring in 2004. It was Anderson who helped Apple figure out how to buy enough time to execute the turnaround. Anderson had had a terrible falling out with Jobs during the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of an options-backdating scandal in 2007. He settled the case without admitting wrongdoing but blamed the CEO for leaving him exposed. Not coincidentally, at about that time, Anderson joined Elevation Partners, a private-equity firm that had invested $325 million to buy a 26% share of Palm. (It now owns 34%.) Thinking that Rubinstein...