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8 Feb 2010, 1:40 pm
Beaumier, Executive Vice President, Global Industry Programs, ex-partner in Arthur Andersen’s Regulatory Risk Services practiceRobert B. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 11:13 am by Miriam Baer
  Because the collateral costs of indictment are so high for many companies (think Arthur Andersen), most regulated entities seek a Deferred Prosecution Agreement in lieu of any indictment. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 5:59 am by Andis Kaulins
"Applying criminal penalties to white-collar crime by employees of corporations has never been very successful and can lead to disastrous results, such as in the case of Arthur Andersen LLP, which ultimately went out of business due to a criminal prosecution for destruction of evidence that cost "thousands of jobs". [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 12:27 pm by Amir Efrati
After Arthur Andersen LLP was convicted in 2002 of allegedly destroying evidence and went out of business, costing thousands of jobs, prosecutors tried other methods of punishment for big companies. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 5:33 am by AdamSmith1776
This is a firm founded in 1906, which has used Arthur Andersen and now McGladry Pullen as accountants. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 10:01 pm by Tom
After prosecuting Arthur Andersen out of business in the intensely post-Enron climate of Houston in 2004, the Enron Task Force threatened to do the same to Merrill Lynch unless the firm served up some sacrificial lambs, which it did by offering Mr. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 7:09 am by admin
Again, no different from accountants, except that auditors can be sued and bankrupted - sayonara Arthur Andersen, hasta la vista Laventhol & Horwath. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 11:15 am by Michael Fox
And Lehman Brothers could never go bankrupt, Arthur Andersen could never fail, and Tiger Woods could never .... [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 9:31 am by Victoria VanBuren
(posts available here and here) On May 4, the Court decided Arthur Andersen LLP v. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 2:35 pm
 In 2002, in the wake of the auditing manipulations that destroyed Enron Corp. and its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen LLP, hit other major companies, like Worldcom, and cost investors hundreds of billions of dollars, Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (named for its congressional sponsors). [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 7:51 am by James (Jim) A. Goodman
Arthur Andersen, LLP, 44 Cal.App. 4th 937 (2008) the California Supreme Court adopted an expansive interpretation of California Business & Professions Code §16600, holding that §16600 prohibits employee non-competition agreements unless the agreement falls within a statutory exception which are non-competition agreements associated with certain business sales transactions, dissolution of partnerships, or termination of a member’s interest in a limited liability… [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 8:21 am
Among other things, McInerney defended Arthur Andersen on obstruction-of-justice charges related to the Enron scandal and in 1994 he also served as an associate independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 11:01 pm
Arthur Andersen LLP, Jamie Olis, and Jeffrey Skilling proceeded to trial after criminal charges were brought against them. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 10:30 am
After a brief historical description of deodand and frankpledge, the article traces the history of corporate criminal liability from William Blackstone through Arthur Andersen. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 11:45 am
After a brief historical description of deodand and frankpledge, the article traces the history of corporate criminal liability from William Blackstone through Arthur Andersen. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 3:50 pm by James McNairy
Arthur Andersen, 44 Cal. 4th 937 (2008); and (2) arbitration decisions are notoriously difficult to overturn, but the Ninth Circuit had little trouble doing so in Comedy Club. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 11:01 pm
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's decision in Skilling's appeal -- which is looking by the minute similar to the Fifth Circuit's decision in the Arthur Andersen case that was overturned by a unanimous Supreme Court -- made a mess of two key issues: (i) application of the honest services wire-fraud statute to Skilling's actions, and (ii) application of the standard for deciding the proper venue for Skilling's trial in the face of a presumption of… [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 4:26 am
Arthur Andersen & Co., 72 F.3d 1085, 1093 (2d Cir. 1995) ("Whether the rights belong to the debtor . . . is a question of state law. [read post]