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| #100 Updated: 1/8/06 7:37 p.m. 01/07/06 Refco's Collapse Reveals Decades of Quarrels With Regulators In October 1997, the word went out on the cavernous floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange: Refco Inc. was in trouble. 01/07/06 India Revives Fingerprint Plan to Combat Fraud India's stock market regulator has unearthed a scam, which it is now using as an excuse to revive an intrusive fingerprinting plan that may put off genuine investors. 01/07/06 5 current and former pension figures charged Four former top officials in San Diego's city pension system and the system's lawyer were charged with wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in a 20-count indictment issued by a federal grand jury Friday. 01/06/06 Workers of subcontractor on Pentagon, stadium projects indicted Four contracting firm employees were indicted Friday on charges of overbilling for Pentagon renovations following the Sept. 11 attack as well as the PNC Park and Peterson Events Center projects in Pittsburgh. 01/06/06 Former Wal-Mart exec to plead guilty to fraud-WSJ.COM Former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) vice chairman, Thomas Coughlin, will plead guilty to federal wire fraud and tax evasion charges later this month, according to a story on the Wall Street Journal's Web site on Friday. 01/06/06 Deloitte, JA Launch Ethics Essay Contest JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement) and Deloitte & Touche USA LLP announced the launch of their second annual ethics essay contest, which awards one high school senior with a $5,000 college scholarship. 01/05/06 California firm to pay $2 million to settle insurance probe An insurance industry consulting firm agreed to pay $2 million in restitution after taking payments from MetLife Inc., Prudential Financial Inc. and UnumProvident Corp. to steer customers to those companies, state officials said Thursday. |
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