Group Seeks to Rein In Corporate Prosecution
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An unusual coalition of former prosecutors, corporate lawyers and civil liberties advocates will tell a congressional panel today to consider legislation that would relax Justice Department policies on charging businesses with crimes.
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Blog: Company is also in talks with the group that has sued it, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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By giving the lawyers the Deutsche Bank documents, prosecutors may be hoping to entice one of the KPMG defendants to cooperate in a separate case against the bank.
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Since the creation two years ago of a task force to root out corporate crime, U.S. officials have helped convict a number of executives, including those of drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp. and cable T.V. provider Adelphia.
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A group of seven former brokers and day-trading executives will face a second trial over whether they conspired to improperly profit from information broadcast over brokers' internal "squawk box" systems.
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Christopher Cox defended the agencyâs record in pursuing corporate misconduct, rebuffing accusations that it may be tilting toward business interests.
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DENVER  - Newmont Mining Co. officials said Wednesday they are considering a lawsuit against Indonesian police over the jailing of five company executives during a pollution investigation.
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Consumer goods company is facing its challenges and looking for a turnaround.
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Former Enron chair Ken Lay has been pressing to be tried on his own. A judge may have just given Lay more than he bargained for, as prosecutors ready for what could be one of the biggest corporate crime prosecutions in history.
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Proposed law suggests fines, jail sentences for guilty parties.
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By James Daley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. The UK regulator for the insurance industry has said it attempted to launch investigations into several of its member firms earlier this year, after
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The California Public Employees&#39; Retirement System wants to rein in what it calls abusive compensation practices in corporate America and hold directors and compensation committees more accountable for their actions.
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Business interests, seizing on concerns that a law passed in the wake of the Enron scandal has overreached, are advancing a broad agenda to limit government oversight of private industry, including making it tougher for investors to sue companies and auditors for fraud.
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Not one, but three former CEOs begin their trials
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The FBI's investigation of 14  corporations in a crackdown on improper subprime lending could  expand to other companies, but the complex probes may take some  time before any charges are brought, a federal law enforcement  official said on Wednesday.
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The first criminal trial involving former executives of the now infamous energy company, Enron, begins today in a case that could have a crucial bearing on future trials of the company&#39;s top officials.
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Lawyers retrying the fraud case of former Tyco International Ltd. chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski and ex-finance chief Mark Swartz considered about 225 prospective jurors on the first day of trial.