The “News of the World” took centre stage at the Leveson Inquiry last week, with evidence from former NoW journalists Mazher Mahmood, Neil Wallis, Neville Thurlbeck, Colin Myler and Daniel Sanderson, lawyers Lawrence Abramson (formerly of Harbottle & Lewis) and Julian Pike (of Farrer & Co), former NoW in-house lawyers Tom Crone and Jon Chapman, and the private investigator Derek Webb. [read post]

National/Federal 1 Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late, Postal Service Watchdog Says MSN – Luke Broadwater (New York Times) | Published: 9/1/2020 More than one million mail-in ballots were sent late to voters during the 2020 primary elections, underscoring concerns about whether the agency has the ability to process what is expected to be a major increase in mail-in votes for the presidential election in November. [read post]

Johnson, former CFO David Chidester, now demoted by the company, lied to investors in a conference call about Overstock.com's compliance with SEC Regulation G (Details here).Lee Webb from Stockwatch chronicled my year long battle with Overstock.com to successfully force the company to comply with SEC Regulation G for certain non-GAAP financial disclosures and my ongoing battle to force the company to comply with GAAP and SEC rules in reporting certain accounting errors (Details… [read post]

New Massachusetts companies. [read post]