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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - "Enron," a play about the collapsed U.S. energy trading company, and "Jerusalem," a portrayal of less-than-idyllic life in rural England, face off at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - "Enron," a play about the collapsed U.S. energy trading company, and "Jerusalem," a portrayal of less-than-idyllic life in rural England, face off at the London Evening Standard Theater Awards.
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Sox First (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Earlier this week, I did a blog entry on how White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was pushing wants Democrats to let small public companies worth less than $75 million avoid complying with Sarbanes-Oxley.And now the House Financial Services Committee voted 37-32 to do just that. And it's a permanent exemption!This is a disgrace. Section 404 of the Act requires executives to sign off on the integrity...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Obama Administration includes too many Republicans and Conservative (business-oriented) Democrats. Rahm Emanuel I am particularly suspicious of: too many betrayals. Shahien Nasiripour writes at Huffington Post: With the White House’s blessing, a House panel voted Tuesday to water down a key post-Enron measure designed to protect investors. In a voice vote, members of the House Financial...
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Karmabanque Radio (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan’s natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline . “The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan,” Murray noted.
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Kevin Howard, Enron's former broadband finance chief, has received one year's probation, including nine months' home confinement, for falsifying company books.
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
C'mon, this is getting silly. Since more than half of the public companies are below the $75 million mark, this has potential to be very damaging to investors who are already beaten down. Companies are already doing audits so it's questionable how painful this argument really is. There have been enough problems related to audits (and the auditors, in particular) but to weaken the system any more seems...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A House panel voted Wednesday to permanently exempt more than half of all publicly traded companies from a seven-year-old post-Enron measure designed to prevent fraud....
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Enron's former broadband finance chief received one year's probation, including nine months' home confinement, for falsifying company books.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Enron's former broadband finance chief received one year's probation, including nine months' home confinement, for falsifying company books.
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Ex-Enron broadband figure given home confinementHouston ChronicleUS District Judge Vanessa Gilmore sentenced Howard to also pay a $25000 fine and said for the first nine months of his probation he can only go to work, …and more »
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
HOUSTON - Enron's former broadband finance chief received one year's probation, including nine months' home confinement, for falsifying company books. Kevin...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Enron's former broadband finance chief received one year's probation, including nine months' home confinement, for falsifying company books.
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cara ellison (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I’ve compared Enron and Seinfeld before (here and here) and in keeping with that theme, I present: Shrinkage. According to Wikipedia, this is “The Hamptons” episode of Seinfeld: The four principal characters travel to the Hamptons to see a baby; they find that the baby is altogether ugly. While on the beach, Kramer finds a filled [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
(11-02) 12:18 PST HOUSTON, (AP) -- Enron's former broadband finance chief received one year's probation, including nine months' home confinement, for falsifying company books. Kevin Howard's sentence Monday came under a deal with prosecutors... Enron - Plea - Probation - House arrest - Business