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Madoff headed to hellish jail, SEC still in doghouse
The SwampDisgraced financier Bernard Madoff enters a federal court in New York City on March 12, 2009. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) by Frank James Physicians get to bury their mistakes, it's said. And federal regulators get to see theirs......Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Punishment, Bernard Madoff, North Carolina, Litigation and Regulation
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The Chapter 11 solution
Today's topic: Would we be better or worse off now if the government had let General Motors and Chrysler slip into bankruptcy?
Complete Dust-Up: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Chapter 11 for GM and Chrysler would make Lehman seem like a party Point: Dean...Tags: George W. Bush, Newspaper and Magazine, Employees, Hate Crimes, Massacres
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Lord Black: Unabashed, unbowed
Tribune staff reporterDefendants facing criminal charges usually shun the limelight. Not Conrad Black. The former owner of the Chicago Sun-Times has a date with federal prosecutors in Chicago in less than two weeks. But it will take more to silence this outspoken British lord...Tags: Journalism, Newspaper and Magazine, Tony Blair, World War II (1939-1945), Biography (genre)
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The housing bubble's silver lining
DANIEL GROSS, who writes the "Moneybox" column for Slate, is the author of "Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy."THE ONCE-buoyant housing market is clearly in trouble. Last year, housing prices around the country fell for the first year since the Depression. In Southern California, one of the epicenters of the housing and housing-credit bubble, the pain has been...Tags: California, Bankruptcy, Business, Invention and Innovation, Economy, Business and Finance
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'No one is immune'
Martha Stewart's criminal conviction sends the message that the government will zealously pursue those it suspects of insider trading, even when the parties involved are deep-pocketed, powerful and well-connected, legal experts say. It is a message...Tags: Punishment, Martha Stewart, Colleges and Universities, Stock Broking, Prisons
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Martha Stewart guilty
Martha Stewart, who built a media and consumer goods empire that brought gracious living into everyday Americans' homes, faces prison after her conviction Friday on four felony counts related to a questionable stock sale. Stewart's former stockbroker and...Tags: Gaming, Punishment, Martha Stewart, U.S. Department of Justice, Stock Broking
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Citigroup agrees to settle fraud suit
From Wire ReportsNEW YORK - In the first significant shareholder settlement since Enron Corp. collapsed more than three years ago, Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $2 billion to investors who accused the bank of aiding Enron in its huge accounting scandal by selling the...Tags: California, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Financial Services
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Firms find way around major Internet artery
Sun StaffTechnicians continued yesterday to clean up the wreckage not just in the Howard Street tunnel, but on the information superhighway. LAI Construction Services Inc. of Baltimore was completing yesterday a new fiber-optic loop around the downtown tunnel,...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Companies and Corporations, Keynote Systems Incorporated, Transportation Accidents, San Mateo
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Train derailment severs communications
Sun StaffWhen a train falls in Baltimore, it knocks out e-mail halfway around the world. Welcome to the 21st century. The impact of the underground train derailment was felt far and wide, from inoperable cell phones in suburban Maryland, to corporate Web pages...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Cell Phones, Companies and Corporations, Transportation Accidents, Manhattan (New York City)
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Downtown stores, workers struggle after fire, flood
Sun StaffBy 12:50 p.m. yesterday, the cash register in Annie Lee's shoe store on Howard Street hadn't rung even one sale. "I'm ready to close at 1 o'clock," she said. "I cannot stay like this." Lee was one of many downtown workers who felt the effects of the...Tags: Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Bank of America Corp., Employees, Maryland, Floods
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More firms on brink?
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersWorldCom Inc.'s mammoth bankruptcy filing Sunday could prolong the telecommunications industry's long and painful implosion by dragging teetering companies over the brink with it. More than three dozen telecom firms have already landed in Bankruptcy...Tags: Broadwing Corporation, Deutsche Telekom AG, France, Dynegy Incorporated, Arizona
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WorldCom rises 16% over ending of stock
Associated PressWorldCom Inc. shares rose more than 16 percent yesterday after the telecommunications company's announcement that it is eliminating its MCI tracking stock. The company announced the recombination of the WorldCom and MCI issues after the stock market...Tags: Louisville, Stock Activities, Companies and Corporations, Stock Broking, Stock Market
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