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Don't Outsource Your Conscience: Lessons in Corporate Truth

September 27, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that the recent spate of guilty verdicts and stiff sentences handed out for corporate fraud committed by the erstwhile leaders of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia and other...

June 29, 2006 08:03:00 PM

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy on Thursday were convicted of federal bribery and fraud charges . Siegelman was convicted on...

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Lessons from the Enron Verdict?

May 31, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Rapoport, dean of the University of Houston Law Center, says that although the convictions of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in the Enron corporate fraud trial offer several important lessons, it's not clear that all of...

May 2, 2006 07:44:00 AM

The trial for former Alabama Governor Donald Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy begins Tuesday as the pair face federal bribery and racketeering charges . Siegelman is accused...

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Ebbers to Scrushy to Skilling and Lay

April 12, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that defense lawyers in recent corporate fraud cases are not seeking to introduce reasonable doubts that might lead a jury to acquit their clients, but in...

February 23, 2006 04:35:00 PM

HealthSouth on Thursday finalized a settlement agreement with plaintiffs in several federal securities class action suits for a total $445 million. HealthSouth itself will pay defrauded investors $215 million, and its insurance...

February 14, 2006 11:22:00 AM

Lawyers for former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy and former state highway director Mack Roberts filed motions Tuesday asking a federal judge to drop charges against them in connection with a racketeering scheme ...

January 4, 2006 12:37:00 PM

An Alabama state judge on Tuesday granted summary judgment in a shareholder's lawsuit against Richard Scrushy , former CEO of HealthSouth , and ordered Scrushy to return to the company more than $47.8 million...

December 13, 2005 09:57:00 AM

A federal grand jury on Monday indicted former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy Richard Scrushy and Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on fresh charges of corporate corruption, the latest in a series of allegations against the...

November 30, 2005 04:16:00 PM

US District Judge Inge P. Johnson of the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday dismissed fraud charges against former HealthSouth Corp. CEO, Richard Scrushy because the charges were not specific. Johnson will allow...

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