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...been accused of price fixing. In 2003, the company paid a $2.5 million penalty to the New York Mercantile Exchange to settle charges of improper crude-oil trading (the firm didn?t admit or deny wrongdoing). BP has since fired some employees involved in the alleged propane scheme, though it maintains that ?market manipulation did not occur,? and has vowed to fight the charges in court. Prevailing in the case could prove tough, however, since a former BP trader has pled guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors...
...doubt the Cook County power brokers are sneaking peeks at the week's other big local headline: the winding down of the seven-week corruption trial of Mayor's Daley's former patronage chief Robert Sorich and three Co-defendants. The group is accused of engaging in a complicated scheme to ensure that politically connected job applicants received favorable treatment in city hiring and promotions. The federal investigation, led by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (the same one overseeing the Valerie Plame CIA leak case in Washington) has already led the city clerk to resign in disgrace and to 35 public...
...just a prelude to planning the other undeveloped sites. Last month the government issued a model for the Central waterfront that got some grudging praise from opponents. "It's moving on, which is good," says Markus Shaw, chairman of WWF Hong Kong. But critics argue that the official scheme still won't bring in enough people to keep the waterfront lively. A group that includes Shaw, Loh and Zimmerman has developed an alternative design for the area, focusing on smaller buildings with a diversity of commercial offerings. They're calling the dueling designs "The Battle of the Models." If there...
...says the Recording Industry Association of America and its international affiliate, the IFPI, which insist that Western record labels haven't received a dime in license fees. Nor have those copyright protectors authorized ROMS or FAIR to collect payments. The Russians "set up this bogus licensing scheme," says Lauri Rechardt, litigation director for the IFPI, "and quite clearly it's not a problem for the authorities." Counters ROMS general manager Oleg Nezus: "Foreign organizations that lay claims about pirate use...are either adventurists or idiots." (E-mails to Mediaservices were not returned...
...south of Madrid. Even though tractors rumble through the dusty streets and strangers are met with open stares, the town learned last month that it's not as isolated as it seems: half of Dosbarrios' 2,400 residents have put their money into an allegedly fraudulent stamp investing scheme that has rocked Spain. "Before, our economic health was very good," says Mayor Juan Bautista Martínez. "Now, it's so-so." Dosbarrios residents are closely watching the unfolding investigation into Afinsa Bienes Tangibles and Forum Filatélico, two investment companies that [an error occurred while processing this directive...