Higher Hurdles Set in Corporate Crime Cases
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The Justice Department announced new rules yesterday that will make it harder for prosecutors to bring criminal charges against companies, bending to intense pressure from business groups that claim the government has overreached in its pursuit of financial malfeasance.
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Resisting the temptations of the mutual-fund performance chase isn't as easy as it may look.
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The trial is one of a host of legal difficulties facing Siemens that has shaken the country unlike any other recent business scandal.
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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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Revelations of corporate fraud are dependent on a wide range of sometimes unlikely players.
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The company is in trouble once again. What's it going to take?
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New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer, leading a broad probe into insurance industry fraud  and price-fixing, said Friday he intends to pursue criminal  charges against executives as high as possible up the corporate  ladder.
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Business & money: Business leaders oppose stronger powers to investigate breaches.
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The Supreme Court made it harder Thursday for most defendants to challenge their federal prison sentences.
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Fallen newspaper tycoon Conrad Black's conviction on Friday on fraud and obstruction of justice charges was the latest chapter in a five-year-old U.S. crackdown on corporate wrongdoing that started off strong but has suffered some embarrassing setbacks.
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The case of Universal Express shows how hard it can be for the commission to halt what it views as a fraud.
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As information security threats have grown more lethal in the past decade, many senior executives still remain in the dark when it comes to protecting their organizations.
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The Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcers face three hurdles in having a reward system for anti-spam investigations, according to a new FTC report.
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HOUSTON -- The darker side of Wall Street could come to light Monday as the criminal trial involving former Enron executives takes a look at the inner workings of the Wall Street investment banking business.
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Setting ground rules for competition is one thing, but seeking to determine outcomes is another. In European antitrust, there is more a doctrine of âreining inâ powerful companies than in the United States.
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Walter A. Forbes was denied release pending an appeal of his conviction in a case over one of corporate Americaâs biggest accounting scandals.
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Case could open door to scores of other lawsuits against board members for failing to exercise proper oversight over corporate management.