Merrill Exec to Testify in Sex Bias Case
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A top Merrill Lynch official is due to  testify on Wednesday over a 7.5 million pound ($13.4 million)  sex discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S.-based  investment bank by former executive Stephanie Villalba.
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HOUSTON, Oct. 7 -- The government prepared Thursday to rest its fraud and conspiracy case against four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and two former mid-level Enron Corp. executives, following testimony from a key Enron executive that a barge sale was a sham designed to inflate profits.
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Merrill Lynchâs board of has begun to contact top Wall Street executives about replacing the embattled E. Stanley OâNeal.
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Lawyers for former WorldCom  Chief  Executive Bernard Ebbers are seeking immunity for two witnesses  who they believe could clear their client of fraud charges  related to the company's $11 billion accounting scandal,  according to court papers filed on Wednesday.
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Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. did not discriminate against a female executive, but it did fire her unfairly, a British employment tribunal ruled Wednesday.
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Lawyers for former WorldCom Inc. chief Bernard Ebbers will be allowed to question the star prosecution witness about marital infidelity, a judge ruled yesterday.
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HONG KONG/WASHINGTON  - Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  board member David Li, a prominent Hong Kong banker, may face civil charges in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission insider trading investigation linked to News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid for the U.S. media company.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether the wife of former Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK Chairman  Kenneth Lay illegally sold shares in the company just before it  went bankrupt, a lawyer for Lay said on Wednesday.
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December 23, 2004 -- LONDON - A UK court dismissed a sex discrimination claim against Merrill Lynch brought by a former high-flying executive, who was suing the US investment bank for 7.5 million pounds ($14.61 million).
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A board member testifies Monday that the former CEO was fired in large part because of his reckless exaggeration to Wall Street analysts.
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A former top executive at Merrill Lynch lost a sexual discrimination suit against the global investment bank, in which she had sought more than seven million pounds (13.4 million dollars, 10 million euros) in damages before a British labour tribunal.
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OTTAWA -- The man who ran the scandal-plagued federal sponsorship program begins testifying Wednesday at the inquiry looking into the affair.
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California's Secretary of State will testify before a legislative committee investigating his use of federal election funds, aides said.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  co-President Ahmass Fakahany, a confidante of CEO Stan O'Neal and who had a hand in overseeing risk management at the company, is expected to resign, according to people familiar with the situation.
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US stocks regulators intend to file civil charges in a Dow Jones  Co. insider-trading case against Hong Kong banker and Dow Jones board member David Li, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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Michael Ovitz, once a top Hollywood dealmaker, is set to testify Tuesday to face charges by angry Walt Disney Co. shareholders that he cheated them when he left the company with a &#36;140 million severance package.
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Shares of Merrill Lynch & Co rose as  much as three percent on Monday as investors bet the biggest  U.S. brokerage wouldn't keep investors waiting too long before  announcing a replacement for Stan O'Neal, who presided over the  biggest quarterly loss in the firm's 93-year history.