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27 May 2007, 11:00 pm
Attorney decides to criminalize the transaction and makes Dynegy's CEO an offer that he cannot refuse -- throw Olis and a couple of his co-workers under the bus and the federal government will not put Dynegy out of business as it did with Arthur Andersen. [read post]
24 May 2007, 9:14 am
To be sure, yesterday's decision suggests that prosecutors may be extremely reluctant to subject any major firm to the fate of Arthur Andersen. [read post]
24 May 2007, 3:30 am
This post from last week reported on how a recent civil lawsuit against Dynegy, Inc. involved issues relating to the Justice Department's 2003 threat to indict the company that contributed dramatically to the barbaric prosecution and prison sentence of former mid-level Dynegy executive, Jamie Olis. [read post]
19 May 2007, 11:04 pm
Arthur Andersen, after all, closed shop shortly after its 2002 indictment for allegedly destroying documents related... [read post]
18 May 2007, 3:30 am
Fuhs never conferred with anyone at Arthur Andersen (Enron's auditors) regarding the transaction and the deal was the only Enron transaction that Mr. [read post]
17 May 2007, 1:01 pm
Arthur Andersen, after all, closed shop shortly after its 2002 indictment for allegedly destroying documents related to its Enron audits. [read post]
17 May 2007, 3:30 am
One of the most egregious aspects of the federal government's criminalization of business during the post-Enron era has been the prosecution tactic of threatening to go Arthur Andersen on companies if they fulfilled a corporate policy or obligation to pay the defense costs of the company's business executives against whom the prosecution was pursuing criminal charges. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 8:17 am
The directors, the accountants (in this case, Arthur Andersen), and the chief financial officers (Robin Szeliga and Robert Wood ruff) would have had far more responsibility for the things that Qwest said. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 12:33 pm
When they indicted Arthur Andersen I spoke out against it. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 1:35 am
[JURIST] A US federal judge has approved a settlement under which Arthur Andersen [Wikipedia backgrounder] will pay $72.5 million to investors who sued the firm for its involvement in the Enron scandal [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 5:35 am
A federal judge gave final approval Friday to a $72.5 million settlement between Arthur Andersen and investors who sued the accounting firm over its role in the 2001 collapse of Enron. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 12:48 pm
One need only look at the demise of Arthur Andersen, a company that won in the U.S. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 2:50 am
"They had to really look tough and so they decided at the highest levels they were just going to give the death penalty to Arthur Andersen. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 2:41 am
Apart from the direct loss of jobs and wealth that resulted from the Arthur Andersen debacle and the meltdown in the energy trading industry that occurred as a result of Enron's demise, a devastating impact of these business prosecutions is that they obscure the true nature of risk and fuel the myth that investment loss results primarily from criminal misconduct. [read post]
16 Feb 2007, 7:45 pm
In 2001 - George Bush's first term - the Justice Department had rushed to criminally indict Arthur Andersen which destroyed the firm. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 9:53 am
Of course, the most ironic part of this new priority is that the accounting industry finds itself "consolidated" in part because of the DOJ's misguided prosecution of Arthur Andersen, which destroyed the firm at indictment even though the conviction was ultimately reversed by the Supreme Court. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 10:30 am
Some highlights: The Supreme Court has overturned Arthur Andersen’s conviction for obstruction of justice in the Enron case. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 3:56 pm
If a governmental civil or criminal investigation is conducted, and false information is given to the govern ­ment, individuals and their employers may be prosecuted under the federal Criminal Code—remember the Arthur Andersen case. [read post]