Word: sues
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...lawsuits, pretrial discovery eases the job of determining what went wrong, who bears responsibility--and how to prevent future misconduct. Besides, the government can file relatively few cases, while private shareholders can sue a swindler whenever they feel wronged. Egregious misconduct may merit jail, but if the Administration is serious about keeping fraud in check, it won't rely on criminal cases to get the message...
...doing pretty much whatever the government wanted. That included cutting off the payment of legal fees for indicted employees. The groveling worked for KPMG, which dodged indictment, but not for the 16 indicted employees, who couldn't afford their lawyers. A New York federal judge ruled that they could sue KPMG for their legal bills (KPMG has appealed the ruling) and slammed the prosecution for denying them the right to counsel: "The government ... has let its zeal get in the way of its judgment. It has violated the Constitution it is sworn to defend...
Dingman said that the new director will have a level of responsibility on par with the three resident deans of freshmen, who are currently Lesley Nye Barth, Sue Brown, and William Cooper ’94. But the new director will not have similar one-on-one responsibilities with students...
...this time, Friis, a Dane, and Zennstrom, a Swede, won't have every media lawyer in the U.S. waiting to sue them, as was the case with Kazaa. TV networks are pleased with Joost's advanced encryption, which they say makes it virtually piracy-proof. Joost's founders learned the importance of that the hard way: Kazaa was forced last summer to pay more than $100 million to settle copyright-infringement claims...
...complained. "I wish they would have asked us before publishing," groused Nguyen Duy Hung, CEO of a Ho Chi Minh City brokerage firm who was ranked the country's sixth-richest person with stock worth $58 million. A prominent law professor speculated that miffed tycoons might be able to sue for invasion of privacy. Even ordinary citizens were affronted. "A person's assets should be his private secret," wrote one VNExpress reader on the news outlet's website...