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Posts Tagged ‘guilty’
Jackson Doctor Pleads Not Guilty; Wonder Woman Cosmetics; McDonalds Raises Prices & More Evening Crunch Crumbs
January 26th, 2011 |
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Key Insider Trading Player Pleads Guilty
January 20th, 2011 |
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Danielle Chiesi, a key player in the insider trading case that nabbed executives from IBM and Intel, pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy and faces up to four years in prison. – Danielle Chiesi, a central figure in the massive insider trading scandal
that included a long-time IBM executive, faces up to four years in prison after
pleading guilty to conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court.
Chiesi,
who was one of 24 people arrested in October 2009 in connection with the
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Ex-Israeli president found guilty of rape
December 30th, 2010 |
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Israel’s former President Moshe Katsav has been convicted of rape by a court in Tel Aviv and could go to jail.
He was found guilty of raping an employee in the 1990s when he was tourism minister and of later sexual offences while he was president.
Khodorkovsky found guilty in second trial
December 27th, 2010 |
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Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were declared guilty in their second trial, RIA Novosti reports.
The Khamovniki court said Khodorkovsky and Lebedev had headed an organized group committing financial crimes in Russia’s oil business via their oil company Yukos.
Nobody guilty of corruption will be spared: Manmohan Singh
December 20th, 2010 |
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Stressing his government”s commitment to integrity, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday warned that “nobody guilty will be spared, irrespective of which party he belongs to, and how powerful he may be.” Addressing the Congress plenary session at Burari in northwest Delhi, Dr. Singh said: ” His government would vigorously pursue the investigation [...]
SIA Cargo to plead guilty of price fixing
December 1st, 2010 |
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Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIAL.SI) has agreed to plead guilty in a US price-fixing case and pay a US$48 million ($63.4 million) criminal fine, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.
The cargo division of Singapore Airlines agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count for its part in the cargo price-fixing conspiracy, which has now ensnared 20 airlines.
Manmohan Singh promises action against anybody found guilty in 2G scam
November 20th, 2010 |
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday promised action against anybody found guilty in the 2G spectrum allocation. He also said the government was not afraid of discussion on any issue in Parliament and appealed to all political parties to allow it to function. “There should be no doubt in anybody’s mind that if any [...]
Govt. will punish guilty for East Delhi building collapse: Dikshit, Khanna
November 16th, 2010 |
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khanna and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who visited the site of the four-storey building that collapsed in East Delhi, said on Tuesday that strict action would be taken against those found guilty for the incident. Dikshit said people have been evacuated and the area would be surveyed to pinpoint more such [...]
Yousuf found ‘not guilty’ of violating ICC Code of Conduct: ICC spokesman
November 10th, 2010 |
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Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf has been found not guilty of breaching the International Cricket Council (ICC) Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel during the fifth one-day international against South Africa in Dubai on Monday. Yousuf had his name written with a marker pen at the back of a borrowed shirt, which was [...]
Man Pleads Guilty in Pump and Dump Scheme
October 21st, 2010 |
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A man pleaded guilty Oct. 20 to being involved in a plot to inflate stock prices using spam, an army of computer hackers and other methods. – An Arizona man described by
the FBI as a computer specialist pleaded guilty Oct. 20 to participating
in a scheme to artificially inflate stock in a pump and dump scam.
James Bragg of Chandler, Ariz.,
pleaded guilty to a count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and fraud
in connection wit…
Corporate crime: Not guilty?
July 1st, 2010 |
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The Supreme Court favours three jailed bosses in a crop of pro-business rulings
THREE of America’s most notorious former company bosses received good news as the Supreme Court issued its final rulings before the summer recess. On June 24th Jeffrey Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, and Conrad Black, the former boss of the Hollinger media empire, heard that the court had upheld their appeals against their convictions for failing to provide “honest services” to the shareholders of their firms. Then on June 29th, in the light of its ruling in the Skilling case, the Supreme Court ordered a lower court to review its conviction of Richard Scrushy, once the boss of HealthSouth, along with Don Siegelman, an ex-governor of Alabama who was initially judged to have been bribed by Mr Scrushy.
These rulings will confirm the Supreme Court’s reputation as being increasingly sympathetic to big business interests, by striking down what had been a successful new prosecutorial strategy for jailing bosses of firms caught up in scandals. So will two other rulings just released by the court, one striking down part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is loathed by many company bosses (see Schumpeter), and another upholding the legality of so-called business-method patents—though in each of these cases, the rulings were actually rather narrow and technical. …
Robert O’Ryan to Be Found Guilty of Stalking Olympic Gold Medalist Shawn Johnso
June 13th, 2010 |
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A Florida man was found guilty by Michael Pastor, the judge of Los Angeles Superior Court. He was accused of felony stalking as well as burglary charges and also two misdemeanor concealed weapons violations. Robert O’Ryan stalked Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnso. Actually, the verdict was pronounced after four days of evidence as well as [...]
Singapore Court finds former WBL CFO guilty of insider trading
May 27th, 2010 |
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Singapore’s High Court ruled today that Kevin Lew Chee Fai, the former chief financial officer of WBL Corp., contravened insider trading rules, the Monetary Authority said in an e-mailed statement. The High Court has asked to hear parties regarding the civil penalty to be paid by Lew and legal costs.
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Business crime in China: Guilty of something
May 20th, 2010 |
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Fourteen years in jail for China’s biggest retail tycoon
A GUILTY verdict was never in doubt. When Huang Guangyu, the founder and controlling shareholder of Gome, a vast retail-electronics chain, vanished from public view in 2008 it was all but certain that he had been arrested. In due course he would surely be sentenced for various crimes. The only mystery was which ones.
The question was partially answered, after a closed trial, on May 18th. It was announced that Mr Huang had pleaded guilty to vague charges of illegal business dealings, insider trading and bribery. He was forced to pay 800m yuan ($119m) and handed a 14-year jail term, both records for white-collar crime in China. Intriguing details were revealed but these raised more questions than they settled. …
TV Chef Not Guilty to Murder of His Wife
May 18th, 2010 |
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A Late Food Chain chef pleaded acquitted Mon to charges he employed homeless person to kill his wife, a supposed plot that was thwarted prior to the adult female was shot down.
Juan-Carlos Cruz, forty-eight, was charged in the City of the Angels with one count of tried pre-meditated murder, which deserves a life sentence if [...]
Headley accomplice Rana sticks to ‘not guilty’ plea
March 30th, 2010 |
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Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, charged with playing a role in the November 2008 deadly Mumbai terror attacks, will not change his ‘not guilty’ plea to avoid a trial in court, according to his lawyer.
Pakistan-born Rana, 49, dressed in an orange jump suit, appeared before Judge Harry Leinenweber in the US District court here [...]
Former IBM Exec Moffat Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Conspiracy
March 29th, 2010 |
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Robert Moffat, a 31-year IBM veteran and at one time considered a possible IBM CEO candidate, pleads guilty to his role in an insider trading scheme that federal prosecutors say generated $25 million in illegal gains. Moffat faces up to six months in prison when he is sentenced in July. His lawyer says Moffat’s deal does not include cooperating with prosecutors.
– Robert Moffat, at one time considered by industry observers to be a possible
future CEO at IBM,
now could spend up to six months in prison after pleading guilty March 29 to
federal securities
fraud and conspiracy charges.
Moffat admitted in U.S. District Court in New
York City that he shared n…
Former Brocade CEO Reyes Guilty of Backdating Options, Again
March 28th, 2010 |
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Is Gregory Reyes being made Silicon Valley’s poster boy for backdating of stock options? Executives at Broadcom, McAfee and Comverse Technology have been able to evade federal criminal charges, but the defense may have been overconfident in avoiding using witnesses on Reyes’ behalf. Another appeal may be in the works after the latest guilty finding by a jury.
– Gregory Reyes, ex-CEO of
Brocade Communications and former owner of the San Jose Sharks, was found
guilty by a federal jury on March 26 of intentionally backdating stock options
for the benefit of employees and himself, according to the San Jose Mercury
News and Reuters.
Reyes, the former chie…
Ex-IBM Exec Moffat May Plead Guilty in Insider Trading Case
March 26th, 2010 |
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Robert Moffat, at one time a senior vice president and group executive for IBMs hardware business, may plead guilty March 30 for his role in an insider trading scandal that netted more than $25 million in illegal gains. Moffat, who waived indictment, would be the 11th person to plead guilty in a case that also saw an Intel official arrested.
– Robert Moffat, the former high-ranking IBM executive charged in a
wide-ranging insider trading scheme, appears ready to plead guilty,
possibly as soon as March 30.
According to reports and court documents, Moffat, who
at one time was seen as a possible successor to current IBM CEO Sam
Palmisano…