Superlatives (and Contradictions) in a Fraud Trial
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The superlatives, firsts and continuing fights over WorldCom are a big reason that the Bernard Ebbers trial is being called the granddaddy of all fraud cases.
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A gruesome murder and an influential defendant make for a riveting courtroom drama
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For the governmentÂs star witness in its case against Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief of WorldCom, last weekÂs court appearance may seem like a breeze compared with the cross-examination he faces this week.
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Sometimes really smart people say really dumb things. Here's a case in point.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.
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Description: A jury in Houston finds four former Merrill Lynch bankers and a former Enron vice president a guilty of conspiracy and fraud.
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Find out how one analyst contradicts himself in his report.
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Wagering on the outcome of the Conrad Black fraud trial is a risky proposition, as lawyers representing the former media baron and three co-defendants present widely divergent versions of events in their final statements to the jury.
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Comment is free: Nick Cohen: Scientologists and rich foreigners know that they can rely on our judges to gag critics
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This round of corporate trials is focusing on bad behavior and loose ethics. Key prosecution witnesses are being grilled about their drug use, tax problems and sex lives in an attempt to undermine their credibility.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Author Krystian Bala wrote a grisly bestseller. Now a court has found that the  crime wasn't all in his imagination
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The verdict centered on whether well-documented misstatements meant he was a calculated serial liar, or merely an innocently forgetful man.
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Federal prosecutors summing up their fraud case against Conrad Black on Monday can offer the jury two theories to convict the former press baron: that he conceived and led a scheme to bilk millions from his company, or that he deliberately avoided knowing about it while filling his pockets.
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Revelations of corporate fraud are dependent on a wide range of sometimes unlikely players.
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I. Lewis Libbyâs lawyers appeared to be engaging in some gamesmanship over the possibility of not having Mr. Libby testify in his own defense.
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They turned out the lights on the Floyd Landis courtroom drama yesterday, a whopper of a case that whirled wildly between arguments about wardrobe choices, malfunctioning machines, shoddy science, and much more.