Law Firms

While Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco offer the marquee examples of CFOs brought down in the past five years of legal action against accounting abuses, a report issued by the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force calculates that at least 53 finance chiefs have been convicted since 2002. In what is becoming a great year for fifth […]

An international legal tussle is developing over the fate of Manuel Noriega, the deposed dictator of Panama, as he prepares for his release from a Florida prison. Authorities in France, backed by the US Justice Department, are demanding that the inmate, known as “Pineapple Face” because of his pockmarked features, be extradited to Paris, where

A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal. Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in 2003. Plame said that

The man responsible for ferrying messages between Osama bin Laden and Iraqi insurgents is in U.S. custody and is providing “significant insights” into the workings of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the top American military spokesman in Iraq, said the July 4 capture of Khalid al-Mashhadani has

Amid outrage from students, school leaders and legislators over his use of the N-word, the former chairman of the Roger Williams University board said Wednesday he wants his name removed from its law school. Ralph Papitto, who has donated millions of dollars to the university, used the slur during a May board meeting. He admitted

A powerful blast carried out by a suicide bomber at the site of where the embattled chief justice of the Supreme Court was scheduled to speak Tuesday evening killed at least 14 people and injured at least 40, according to the police, dragging the Pakistani capital into a new round of disorder less than a

Cybercrime, like every digital industry, is outsourcing. Though the U.S. still produces more malware, spam and viruses than any country in the world, illicit IT jobs are increasingly scattered across an anarchic and international Internet, where labor is cheap, legitimate IT jobs are scarce and scammers are insulated from the laws that protect their victims

Not since exploding Ford Pintos in the 1970s has there been as incendiary a catalyst for recalls as China’s recent spate of consumer product scares. Since March a cluster of incidents involving potentially deadly, defective, or contaminated products imported from China – pet food, toys, tires, toothpaste, cough syrup, shrimp – has awakened both that

A high-profile judge was defiant last night after he was criticised severely by appeal judges for refusing to stand aside in a case in which he had “undoubted animosity” towards one of the parties. Mr Justice Peter Smith, who hit the headlines when he tried The Da Vinci Code case and inserted his own code