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#178 Updated:  5/10/06 11:24 p.m.

05/10/06 Overstock.com says gets SEC subpoena
Overstock.com, an online close-out retailer, on Tuesday said the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena for documents about its
finances, communications and policies, including its complaint against Gradient
Analytics.

05/10/06 Parmalat's Ex-CFO: Tanzi Had Final Say
Parmalat's Former Finance Chief Testifies All Decisions Were Made by Former CEO
Tanzi

05/10/06 Enron Jurors to Consider `Deliberate Ignorance,' Judge Rules
Jurors in Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling's trial will be instructed to consider
whether the two former Enron Corp. executives deliberately ignored accounting
fraud as the energy trader fell into bankruptcy, a judge ruled.

05/10/06 Woman pays back $44K from embezzlement
A former employee of First American Title Co. in Watsonville walked into the Santa
Cruz County Courthouse Tuesday and presented a check for $44,000, payment
for money she embezzled three years ago.

05/10/06 Hartford to pay $20 mln to settle broker pay probe
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on
Wednesday it would pay $20 million to settle complaints by New York and
Connecticut regulators that it secretly paid brokers kickbacks to recommend its
group annuities to pension plans.

05/10/06 Livedoor's Horie Denies Accounting Fraud
The former president of disgraced Internet startup Livedoor Co. denied accounting
fraud charges brought against him in a statement presented Wednesday to
prosecutors, a news report said.

05/10/06 IMA Study: SOX Costs Derailed by Poor Management
The Institute of Management Accountants on Tuesday announced the early
findings of a research study on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs. An initial
conclusion of the study is that the lack of management implementation guidance is
a significant cost driver for companies, large and small, in complying with Section
404 requirements.

05/10/06 404 Makes an IPO: Mission Impossible
As a backdrop for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III, satellite images of "enemy
surveillance" and "global reconnaissance" are scattered about a dimly-lit, futuristic
control room. The set may be a Hollywood fantasy, but the software generating
the clandestine images is real, and supplied by defense contractor Analytical
Graphics Inc. (AGI), a small ($250 million market capitalization) company based in
Exton, Pa.
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