Word: sec
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mark Cheffers, CEO of accounting Malpractice.com, says of Arthur Andersen: "Even if they're innocent, it looks like a massive cover-up." Andersen reported its destruction of Enron documents to the SEC and Justice Department early last week-just before four congressional investigators arrived at the company's Houston office on Wednesday. Committee officials immediately demanded the personal records of the partner and five top executives working on the Enron account...
...early and rich - recused himself and his chief of staff from the probe, just as designated attack Democrat Henry Waxman was dashing off a letter reminding Ashcroft that he'd received $25,000 from Enronites for a Senate re-election campaign. The exodus may not stop there; Bush SEC chairman Harvey Pitt once did some work for Arthur Andersen, the blind (and document-shredding) accounting watchdog in the drama, and could be next to eagerly recuse himself from ever having to give a press conference on his agency's investigation, either...
...place than the past. Sure, we've all got New Year's resolutions of our own, but what good is exercising more going to do the economy? So herewith, 10 resolutions for the new economic year - made on behalf of the people who can actually carry them out. 1. SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt resolves to take the proper lesson from the Enron mess and commission his predecessor, the eternally vigilant Arthur Levitt, to go to work on the rules and strictures of corporate accounting until someone besides corporate accountants can understand them. Don't stop until the field...
CIRCUIT CITY MESSAGE People can tape 30-sec. video messages for the troops at participating Circuit City stores. Some greetings will...
...season in which he placed third in the final standings, the best American showing in 18 years. Schlopy (pronounced Shlope-y) also heads to Salt Lake City this February with the kind of prodigal-son story that NBC will make into a 30-min. mini-series preceding his 50-sec. runs on the slalom course at Park City. "What I went through," says Schlopy, "isn't just nontraditional. It's never been done before...