Former CFO Says Scrushy Ordered Bogus Accounting
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - Former HealthSouth Corp. Chief  Executive Richard Scrushy ordered accounting executives to  falsify the company's books to meet Wall Street's earnings  targets, a former chief financial officer said in court on  Wednesday.
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Richard Scrushy once sat down to talk with ''60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace about allegations that Scrushy started a huge fraud while chief executive of rehabilitation giant HealthSouth Corp. Now, Scrushy wants Wallace to do the talking.
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BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 1 -- As HealthSouth Corp. officials began to inflate the company's earnings in 1996, chief executive Richard M.  Scrushy's central question was, "Could I get this past the auditors?" former chief financial officer William T. Owens testified Tuesday.
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A former in-house Enron Corp. accountant said he was convinced that the energy giant&#39;s unofficial promise to buy back several barges sold to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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Fired HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy actively orchestrated and participated in a scheme to overstate earnings at the rehabilitation giant, a former finance chief testified as prosecutors got to the heart of their multibillion-dollar fraud case against Scrushy.
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Regulators alleged that misconduct at Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises resulted in misstatements of the companyâs earnings.
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The trial of Richard Scrushy got under way on Tuesday, with a prosecutor calling Mr. Scrushy the mastermind of an accounting fraud at the hospital chain he founded.
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HOUSTON A former executive who participated in the wrongdoing that helped cripple Enron has testified, providing the first glimpse through the eyes of a principal of the deals orchestrated by Andrew Fastow when he was the company&#39;s chief financial officer
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A former Enron Corp. executive told a  jury on Thursday that he knew the disgraced energy company had  made a bogus deal with investment bank Merrill Lynch in order  to post fraudulent profits.
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The former Fannie Mae accountant who raised questions about the mortgage giant's bookkeeping said yesterday he took his concerns to chief executive Franklin Raines in 2002 and asked him to investigate.
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Takafumi Horie, the 33-year-old Internet   entrepreneur once lauded as a brash new model for corporate   Japan, pressured aides to inflate earnings at his firm Livedoor   in 2004 and was kept informed of its crooked accounting, a   former company executive told a court on Friday.
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U.S. prosecutors charged a former Pakistani banker with securities fraud on Tuesday, saying he made nearly $8 million in illegal profits after getting insider information on pending merger deals from a former Credit Suisse investment banker.
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HealthSouth Corp.'s first chief financial officer testified Wednesday that then-CEO Richard M. Scrushy told him and a colleague to "fix the numbers" when quarterly earnings were below analyst expectations in mid-1996.
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A former New York Stock Exchange   (NYSE) floor trader charged with securities fraud broke Big   Board rules and cheated the public by improperly manipulating   trades, a federal prosecutor told a jury on Tuesday.
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Business & money: Â· Former Independent chief denies fraud chargesÂ· Company's accounts were a 'mystery quagmire'
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A judge found that the evidence did not support the conviction of a former N.Y.S.E. supervisor who once oversaw trading in General Electric stock.
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A $700-an-hour accountant who investigated the huge earnings overstatement at HealthSouth Corp. said Monday he didn't find a paper trail linking the scheme to fired CEO Richard Scrushy, who is on trial in the fraud.