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| #109 Updated: 1/20/06 9:24 a.m. 01/20/06 Greenberg Wins Access to AIG Report as He Prepares Defense Maurice ``Hank'' Greenberg, the ousted American International Group Inc. chairman accused of accounting fraud, won the right to see an AIG report used to blame him for the insurer's $3.9 billion restatement. 01/20/06 SEC Settlement With Ex-Qwest CFO Collapses A former Qwest finance chief who admitted to insider trading as part of the company's multibillion-dollar accounting scandal faces a trial on civil fraud charges because a tentative settlement with regulators has collapsed. 01/20/06 Mortgage-fraud bill unites rival industry groups Two rival mortgage-industry trade groups have joined to push a bill that would create and finance a board to prosecute people who commit mortgage fraud. 01/20/06 Former Enron CEO Says Legal Team Ready Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling is not the haggard, paunchy man he was when he surrendered to the FBI nearly two years ago to face criminal charges stemming from the company's scandalous downfall. 01/20/06 U.S. Seeking to Narrow Fraud Case Against Enron's Lay, Skilling Federal prosecutors are seeking to scale back the scope of the fraud case against former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who are scheduled to go on trial later this month. 01/20/06 Questions on people's mind: Is "flipping" houses illegal and where can you find out more about the training for reverse-mortgage counselors? My wife and I were interested in flipping homes but we have read several news accounts about the practice being illegal. Is flipping homes wrong? Sean. 01/20/06 Coroner indicted on fraud, theft Dr. Cyril Wecht, a county coroner who has consulted on high-profile deaths from Elvis Presley to JonBenet Ramsey, was indicted on federal charges of using government resources to further his private practice. 01/19/06 Tenet to Restate Four Years of Results The restatements stem from a previously disclosed investigation regarding contractual allowances for managed-care contracts. 01/19/06 Whistle-blower Shield Stops at Border The whistle-blower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act do not extend to foreign workers employed by the overseas subsidiaries of U.S. companies, according to a court ruling reported by The National Law Journal. |