“Today’s verdict is wrong…The reality here is that this verdict represents only a technical conviction.” So reads a statement Arthur Andersen issued back on June 15, 2002, just after a Houston jury found the accounting firm guilty concerning its actions in the Enron affair. Technical though it may have been—Andersen was convicted not for abetting […]

Big Business is certainly touting it as a big win. On May 31, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a Justice Dept. claim that accounting firm Arthur Andersen knowingly impeded a federal probe when its execs instructed employees to destroy documents that might have proven key to a government case against Enron. Arthur Andersen is vindicated,

In “All the President’s Men,” he was a shadowy figure in a parking lot advising Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to “follow the money” in their journalistic investigation of the Watergate cover-up that ultimately brought down President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. The two reporters have long referred to him publicly only as “Deep Throat,”

A Russian court today declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of charges including fraud and tax evasion and sentenced the founder of Yukos, the former oil giant, to nine years in prison. The verdict and sentence came in the twelfth day of the laborious verdict-reading process in the most closely watched trial of post-Soviet Russia. Mr Khodorkovsky

The Christian legal association involved in the Terry Schiavo case has taken up the fight over a castle-in-the-sky mural at a Napa school that some students have complained is too religious. Napa High School students launched a petition drive last month to stop classmate Kyle Trudelle from painting his mural on a school wall. Students

The reading of the verdict in the fraud and tax evasion trial of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was still continuing on May 26, and is expected to last into next week as Judge Irina Kolesnikova reads through the 1,000-page document. But no one is paying much attention to her words anymore: They repeat the prosecution’s

John Yoo doesn’t come across like a war criminal, though that’s one of the charges leveled against the smooth young law professor from the University of California at Berkeley’s storied Boalt Hall. With his even tones and calm demeanor, his natty suits, and warm charm, the 37-year-old constitutional scholar seems the embodiment of ”reasonable.” He’s

Alberto Vilar, who built a fortune after arriving in America as a refugee from the Cuban revolution, loved the opera more than anything. And he loved giving his money away almost as much. The investor Alberto Vilar in his East Side apartment. He is charged with defrauding a client of $5 million. Mr. Vilar, a

The prosecution and defense in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial both ended their cases on Friday, opening the way for closing arguments as early as Wednesday. The prosecution rested its rebuttal phase of the trial after showing jurors a videotape of Jackson’s young accuser being questioned by police. Jackson’s lead attorney, Tom Mesereau, had

Linsday Murdoch was in the Denpasar courtroom as Schapelle Corby’s guilty verdict and 20-year jail sentence were handed down. As the judges neared the end of their summing up at Denpasar District Court, close-up footage of Corby showed her biting her lip, talking to herself as if in prayer and looking distressed. She appeared short