Search Results for: 2002-07-08

A federal judge has refused a request made six months ago by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling to dismiss the ten insider trading charges filed against him. Skilling is alleged to have sold $26...

Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay said Tuesday that the company's former CEO Andrew Fastow was to blame for the accounting fraud that led to the company's downfall and that his trust in Fastow was "fatally...

Leading Friday's international brief, UN officials are now admitting that membership of the Security Council is unlikely to change anytime soon, despite months of negotiation and calls for changes to the body's composition. UN Secretary General Kofi...

In a briefing Sunday to military task force officials participating in Hurricane Rita relief efforts, President Bush suggested that the Pentagon, rather than state and local agencies, should be in charge of the response to future...

UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines , filed its reorganization plan and disclosure statement in US bankruptcy court Wednesday, before the recently extended November 1 expiration of its exclusive ability to...

The Federal Election Commission voted 6-0 in favor of Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) Thursday to allow members of Congress to raise unlimited funds from unions, corporations and other donors...

There has been an almost 80 percent decrease in the number of federal tort trials from 1985 to 2003, the US Department of Justice said in a report released Wednesday. According to Federal Tort...

Former WorldCom accounting executive Betty Vinson was sentenced Friday to five months in jail with an additional five months under house arrest for her role in the $11 billion fraud at the telecommunications giant that resulted in its bankruptcy....