OAS chief faces graft allegations
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Organization of American States head Miguel Angel Rodriguez faces a corruption probe in Costa Rica.
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The brokerageâs $7.9 billion write down raised questions about Mr. OâNealâs leadership and the ability of his top executives to manage the risky assets on the firmâs balance sheet.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday called on the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate alleged attempts to discredit a Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower.
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ALBANY, NY -- The man who made Wall Street reform its ways is now charging widespread corruption in the insurance industry. He alleged that brokers have been taking payoffs from insurance companies to steer
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A powerful House committee chairman released new details yesterday about a widening investigation into allegations of "improper conduct" by the chief of the U.S. General Services Administration.
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Nick Griffin's leadership accused of tapping emails and phone calls of opponents
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - Former HealthSouth Corp.  finance officer William Owens on Friday testified that ousted  Chief Executive Richard Scrushy promised to take care of his  family if Owens took the blame for the massive accounting fraud  at the health-care company.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan 9  - The law enforcement official leading the investigation into corruption allegations against South Africa's police chief has been arrested on graft charges, a police official said on Wednesday.
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A U.S. senator ripped into Sun Microsystems and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) during a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, but both the company and the agency disputed the senator&#39;s information.Sen. Chuck Grassley, a&#160;longtime critic of Sun&#39;s contracts with the U.S. government, repeated allegations that top GSA managers interfered in contract negotiations with Sun. The GSA coordinates government-wide contracts for U.S. agencies.GSA executives &quot;put pressure on the contract officer to sign a potentially bad contract,&quot; Grassley said Wednesday. &quot;All the evidence suggest that this particular contractor had been overcharging the government for years.&quot;Sun, still facing a lawsuit in Arkansas over government contracting procedures, has painted Grassley&#39;s complaints as a misunderstanding about a disagreement between GSA administrator Lurita Doan and the agency&#39;s inspector general&#39;s office. The GSA&#39;s inspector general has accused Sun of overcharging government agencies by more than $25 million in contracts dating back to June 1997.Grassley, in his speech, accused Sun of cancelling its GSA contract before an audit he requested was completed.&quot;Now, if this contract was such a &#39;good deal for America,&#39; as has been suggested by Sun and GSA management, then you would think Sun would rush to cooperate,&quot; he said. &quot;They did not. Instead, for three months, Sun complained to me, procrastinated, withheld information, and fought the audit at every step.&quot;Why would Sun cancel a contract it fought so hard to get?&quot; he added. &quot;Did Sun have something to hide?&quot;Grassley called on the GSA to fix its contracting procedures. He forwarded the results of a confidential audit of GSA and Sun to several government officials, he said.Grassley&#39;s speech was &quot;not based on accurate information,&quot; Sun said in a statement late Wednesday. &quot;Sun produced all the information requested by the contracting officer and, only after that production was complete, did we cancel the contract.&quot;Sun cancelled the GSA contract in mid-September. It did not give a reason for backing away from the contract, but said it would continue to fulfill other government contracts not affiliated with the GSA multi-award contract. &quot;We took this step reluctantly, as we have always valued our relationship with GSA and its team of committed professionals,&quot; Sun said in a statement then.The GSA, in a statement, also disputed Grassley&#39;s information. &quot;He uses false innuendo to impugn the motives of GSA management, and based on his statement regarding his investigation of the Sun Microsystem&#39;s matter, this investigation appears to be a conspiracy looking for a theory,&quot; the GSA said.The Sun contract was &quot;a good deal for the taxpayer,&quot; the spokesman added.The questions about Sun&#39;s contracts surfaced in September 2004, when the GSA Office of Inspector General received a hotline complaint about the company&#39;s pricing, according to March congressional testimony from Inspector General Brian Miller.In July 2005, the GSA told Sun resellers the agency was cancelling Sun&#39;s contract, because the company was allegedly charging government customers more than some commercial customers. Sun avoided the cancellation by agreeing to drop some prices.Sun remains a defendant in an&#160;Arkansas lawsuit alleging a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme&#160;involving IT vendors&#39; work on numerous U.S. government contracts.In August,&#160;IBM and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) separately agreed to pay&#160;the U.S. government a total of $5.3 million to settle the Arkansas allegations that the companies solicited and provided improper payments on technology contracts with government agencies. The lawsuit alleges that Sun and several other tech vendors provided kickbacks to systems integrators in exchange for favorable recommendations to government agencies.Sun has until March 2008 to respond to complaints in the lawsuit, brought by a former employee of PWC and a former employee of Accenture. In August, the&#160;U.S. Department of Justice joined the lawsuit&#160;against Sun and the other vendors.
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The former chief operating officer of a San Carlos software company has been indicted on charges of securities fraud for an alleged scheme to inflate the company&#39;s revenue, authorities said Wednesday.
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Former marketing executive, in a legal battle, accuses the companyâs chief of violating its policies.
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Nigeria's Senate is to investigate graft allegations made by President Obasanjo against his vice-president.
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SAN ANTONIO Ohio State logo athletic director Andy Geiger says the school is going to sanction a businessman who is accused of giving improper benefits to quarterback Troy Smith.
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An attorney for U.S. General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan yesterday said allegations that his client violated the Hatch Act should be rejected because they are based on "tenuous inferences and careless leaps of logic."
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The head of the Organization of  American States resigned on Friday after only two weeks in the  job to defend himself against corruption allegations in his  native Costa Rica.
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New secretary general challenged over 'secret appointment' to replace top prosecutor.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. government ministerial aide being probed for breach of trust was initially under investigation on allegations of money-laundering and corruption, newly released documents reveal.