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Nevertheless, the days of e-mails driving prosecutions may be coming to an end. Eliot Spitzer exploded e-mail onto the legal scene in the early part of this decade. As New York attorney general, Spitzer used internal e-mails sent by analysts to prove that Wall Street firms were pushing stocks their professionals didn't believe were good investments just to generate investment-banking fees. In one famous case, former Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget told investors to buy stocks about which he privately wrote in e-mails to colleagues were "horrible," a "disaster" and a "POS," or piece...
...Imclone shares to prove that they knew they were acting on insider information. Stewart was convicted in the case and served five months in jail. In the Tyco case, prosecutors used e-mails to show that chief executive Dennis Kozlowski and chief financial officer Mark Swartz pressured Wall Street firms to maintain positive ratings on their company...
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...admit that I was a little annoyed when I had to take Dunster Street instead of Holyoke Street so Jon Hamm could stand around and look pretty for the cameras, but I get just as annoyed when I can’t find my cell phone or my pillow falls off my top bunk. I face these obstacles on a daily basis—I think I can handle filming for a couple of weeks...
...brainstorming meeting with a media production company that we’re partnering with to create a video game. We’re looking at developing an interactive educational video game that would be oriented towards youth to help them learn about alternatives to drug dealing and street life...