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• TEXAS: Lawyer compares safe handling of guns, refineries

  Published: September 1, 2007, 7:26 pm

  Tags: Amoco, Us Refineries, Enron, Texas, James Baker

  A lawyer representing people hurt in the deadly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Sub Prime Exploitation

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Housing Bubble, Depression, Banks, Wall Street, Mortgages, Housing, Working Class, Enron, Capitalism, Economy

  casino capitalism. It is the Enron moment for the mortgage industry.The White House announcement of a Mortgage forgiveness program, after the Fed bailed out the financial markets, is too little too late. Latinos and African-Americans who bought homes or refinanced mortgages in the San Jose metropolitan area last year were much more likely than

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• High Court's Fraud Case Widely Seen as Stand-In for Enron

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: High, Court S, Fraud, Case, Widely, Seen, Stand In, For, Enron, Enron Corporation, Scientific Atlanta Inc, Roy T Englert Jr, United States, U S Securities Exchange Commission, Motorola Inc, Joseph Grundfest, Maryland, Virginia, Charter Communications Inc, Credit Suisse G

  The largest corporate frauds in recent history could not have happened without the brainpower of accountants, bankers and lawyers who partnered with executives at the troubled firms. Often, these third-party businesses are the only wealthy sources left for investors to tap after such schemes unravel...

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• GM Deal Advances but Dissenters Persist

  Published: October 4, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Deal, Advances, But, Dissenters, Persist, United Auto Workers, Lawrence E Mitchell, Stephen F Diamond, Enron Corporation, General Motors Corporation, Google Inc, Fairfax, Ronald Gettelfinger, The George Washington University, Chevrolet Malibu, California, Kansas, Michi

  Critics of a tentative labor contract between General Motors and the United Auto Workers are stepping up a long-shot bid to derail the agreement, even as some GM workers began voting to ratify the deal.

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• Message From Congress: Don't Touch White Collar Criminals

  Published: October 6, 2007, 9:37 am

  Tags: Enron, Ethics, Government Policy, Oversight, Scandals, The House

  “Pre-Enron, U.S. attorneys never brought these cases, and after this bill is passed, they will quit bringing them again,” says Lynn Turner, a former SEC accounting chief. “This is a very clear message from Congress: Don’t touch white-collar criminals.” Read more… Contact your reps in the

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• Justices Doubt Investors' Arguments

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Justices, Doubt, Investors, Arguments, Scientific Atlanta Inc, Enron Corporation, Motorola Inc, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U S Securities Exchange Commission, Charter Communications Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Stoneridge Investment Partners, Anthony M Kennedy, Carrie John

  It's been called the most important securities fraud case to reach the Supreme Court in years, with fortunes riding on the decision and the scandal of Enron just in the background.

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• Government Wants Brendsel to Pay Costs

  Published: October 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Government, Wants, Brendsel, Pay, Costs, Freddie Mac Holdings, Kevin M Downey, Leland C Brendsel, Richard F Syron, Office Of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Stephen E Hart, Enron Corporation, Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp, South Dakota, Arthur Andersen Llp, Fannie

  Former Freddie Mac chairman and chief executive Leland C. Brendsel should be held liable for more than $1 billion of costs incurred by the company in connection with a massive restatement of earnings, the government said yesterday at the outset of Brendsel's administrative trial on charges of...

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• Energy Traders Avoid Scrutiny

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Energy, Traders, Avoid, Scrutiny, New York Mercantile Exchange Inc, Brian Hunter, Carl Levin, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Amaranth Advisors Llc, Brian Maddox, Dan Berkovitz, David Schryver, Deutsche Bank Ag, Enron Corporation, Greenwich Connecticut, James News

  One year ago, a 32-year-old trader at a giant hedge fund named Amaranth held huge sway over the price the country paid for natural gas. Trading on unregulated commodity exchanges, he made risky bets that led to the fund's collapse -- and, according to a congressional investigation, higher gas bills...

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• Energy Traders Avoid Scrutiny

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Energy, Traders, Avoid, Scrutiny, New York Mercantile Exchange Inc, Brian Hunter, Carl Levin, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Amaranth Advisors Llc, Brian Maddox, Dan Berkovitz, David Schryver, Deutsche Bank Ag, Enron Corporation, Greenwich Connecticut, James News

  One year ago, a 32-year-old trader at a giant hedge fund named Amaranth held huge sway over the price the country paid for natural gas. Trading on unregulated commodity exchanges, he made risky bets that led to the fund's collapse -- and, according to a congressional investigation, higher gas bills...

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• Energy Traders Avoid Scrutiny

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Energy, Traders, Avoid, Scrutiny, New York Mercantile Exchange Inc, Brian Hunter, Carl Levin, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Amaranth Advisors Llc, Brian Maddox, Dan Berkovitz, David Schryver, Deutsche Bank Ag, Enron Corporation, Greenwich Connecticut, James News

  One year ago, a 32-year-old trader at a giant hedge fund named Amaranth held huge sway over the price the country paid for natural gas. Trading on unregulated commodity exchanges, he made risky bets that led to the fund's collapse -- and, according to a congressional investigation, higher gas bills...

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• Taking Apart Paul Krugman

  Published: November 1, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Enron Advisors, Historical Illiteracy, History

  Brink Lindsey does the honors and performs his task remarkably well. At the end of his post, Krugman's arguments and his thesis are rightly viewed as being in tatters. Pay particular attention to the following passage written by Lindsey: In these clips we see, not subtlety or insight or analytical ingenuity, but the Manichean

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• Citigroup and Prince: Too-Risky Business

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Citigroup, And, Prince, Too Risky, Business, Charles Prince, Citigroup Inc, Wall Street, Enron Corporation, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Jared Harris, Robert Carraway, Sandy Weill, Charlottesville, Mci Inc, Dallas, Latin America, Steven Pearlstein, Darden School Of Business

  CHARLOTTESVILLE Poor Chuck Prince. For the past five years, he thought his job was to clean up the ethical mess at Citigroup left by his longtime friend and patron Sandy Weill. As Weill was taking his leave of the financial behemoth he had created, state and federal officials were moving to put ...

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• A Year Later, Prosecutors Fight To Keep Enron's Skilling in Prison

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Year, Later, Prosecutors, Fight, Keep, Enron S, Skilling, Prison, Enron Corporation, Jeffrey K Skilling, Minnesota, Arthur Andersen Llp, Dynegy Inc, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, O Melveny Amp Myers Llp, Doug Wilson, Houston, U S Court Of Appeals, U S Department Of Jus

  Nearly a year after Enron's Jeffrey K. Skilling walked into prison for his role in one of the era's most devastating corporate scandals, the federal government unexpectedly finds itself fighting to keep him behind bars until his sentence ends in 2028.

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• Bloomberg's Baby Problems: They Just Keep Popping Out

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Company Town, American Media Inc, Bank Of America, Bear Stearns, Bloomberg, David Remnick, Disney, Don Imus, Enron, Goldman Sachs, Hsbc, Ken Auletta, Ken Lay, Lloyd Blankfein, Lluella Bartley, Radar, Rick Stengel, Ron Burkle, Sandra Day O Connor, Sidley Austin, Vivienne West

  the credit crunch just like Enron all over again? So says Bethany McLean, the reporter who first broke Ken Lay's fraud wide open. [Fortune]MEDIA • New Yorker media reporter Ken Auletta plans to go on Imus's new show, even though he promised last spring during the scandal that he wouldn't. "I think people deserve second chances," Auletta

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• Hillary Tries to Have It Both Ways With Rupert

  Published: November 26, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Bear Stearns, Chanel, Enron, Hillary Clinton, Louis Vuitton, Lsat, Rupert Murdoch, Topshop, Vanity Fair, Warren Spector, Wga Strike

  windfall thanks to the Enron settlement. Not bad for a man who just pleaded guilty in his own conspiracy suit. [Law Blog/WSJ] FASHION • Finally, a gift for the person who has everything: a Chanel bike. [WWD] • Louis Vuitton apologized to Anthon Beeke for using his “Naked Ladies Alphabet” without his permission.

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