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| #111 Updated: 1/24/06 11:52 a.m. 01/24/06 Skilling: A private man's public ordeal Jeff Skilling had four concrete goals in mind when he left the top job at Enron five years ago: spend time with his children, do charity work, teach a few graduate courses and find a new business to nurture. 01/24/06 Enron trial will stay in Houston, judge orders The much-anticipated Enron trial, set to start Monday morning, will stay in Houston. 01/24/06 IRS to Review Anti-Fraud Program IRS Commissioner Mark Everson ordered a review Tuesday of a tax fraud detection program criticized for freezing thousands of refunds without notifying taxpayers. 01/24/06 IRS Memo Says No Deduction for Gender Reassignment A memo out of the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Chief Counsel makes the case that gender reassignment surgery cannot be deducted as a medical expense for tax purposes. 01/24/06 PCAOB Critiques Its Own Work The inspection division of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said that there's room for improvement in how the young agency conducts its inspections of auditing firms. 01/24/06 Audit Industry at Risk, Business Group Says Claiming the accounting profession faces a number of serious challenges that could disrupt U.S. markets, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday laid out a series of proposals to bolster the industry. 01/24/06 Lawsuit Alleges Medtronic Gave Illegal Payments to Doctors U.S. medical device maker Medtronic paid tens of millions of dollars to surgeons in the form of consulting contracts in recent years, and some of these payments were made to gain or keep the doctors' business, a lawsuit filed against the company alleges. 01/23/06 Ameriquest to pay $325 mln in lending settlement Ameriquest, which makes home loans to borrowers with poor credit, said on Monday it agreed to pay $325 million to settle an investigation into lending practices in 48 U.S. states. 01/23/06 Piano store owner faces prison for fraud Cheshire, a 62-year-old Chester resident, was one of the victims of an elaborate fraud that federal authorities say cost customers and finance companies about $3.5 million. 01/23/06 FBI Uncovers Post-Katrina Fraud The FBI has uncovered fraud by public officials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and has created a task force to investigate corruption as federal money pours into the Gulf Coast region, Mississippi's top agent said Monday |
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