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#184 Updated:  5/18/06 4:04 p.m.

05/18/06 Enron jury leaves for weekend without verdict
Jurors in the trial of former Enron CEOs Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling ended a
second day of deliberations on Thursday without reaching a verdict, meeting
behind closed doors as Lay returned to court for a separate trial.

05/18/06 Former Old Mutual manager pleads guilty to fraud charges
A former employee of Old Mutual Financial Network in Baltimore has pleaded guilty
to charges that she defrauded Old Mutual and banks of more than $850,000.

05/18/06 PCAOB Announces Plan to Improve Auditors' Rules
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Wednesday announced a
four-point plan to improve auditors' implementation of the internal control
reporting provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

05/18/06 SEC won't exempt smaller companies from anti-fraud law
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday that it has decided not
to exempt smaller public companies from a key requirement of a 2002 anti-fraud
law, resisting entreaties from business interests that have been complaining
about the costs of compliance.

05/18/06 HealthSouth Reaches an Agreement With U.S. to Avoid Indictment
HealthSouth Corp., the chain of rehabilitation and surgery centers emerging from
a $2.7 billion accounting fraud, reached an agreement with federal prosecutors
that ends the threat of an indictment against the company.
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