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| #170 Updated: 4/30/06 11:21 p.m. 05/01/06 Lay, Prosecutor to Face Off at Enron Trial Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay had a weekend to contemplate how his aggressive testimony in his fraud and conspiracy trial may have played with the eight women and four men chosen to decide his fate. 04/30/06 Second Enron Trial to Begin This Week The first of three retrials stemming from last year's three-month trial of five former Enron Corp. broadband executives that ended with a hung jury is slated to begin Tuesday next door to the ongoing fraud and conspiracy case of company founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling. 04/28/06 Hyundai Chairman Chung Faces Embezzlement Charges South Korean prosecutors filed an arrest warrant for Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong Koo on charges of misusing company funds and embezzling 100 billion won ($106 million) to bribe government and banking officials. 04/28/06 Harvey Pitt on 404 Former SEC Chair Harvey Pitt comments on how to make SOX 404 work for smaller companies without exempting them. 04/28/06 IRS, States Join Forces to Combat Money Laundering The Internal Revenue Service announced agreements with 33 states and Puerto Rico to begin sharing Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) information. 04/28/06 KPMG Makes Progress on Shelter Lawsuit KPMG moved a bit closer to putting another piece of its tax shelter troubles in the past, filing court papers that more than 200 investors have agreed to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit against the accounting firm and law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. |