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#410 Updated: 5/8/07 8:06 a.m.

DIGITAL FORENSICS
When the U.S. went to court against Enron, prosecutors arrived with a virtual
mountain of evidence gleaned from data—more than 31 terabytes of data—
gathered and analyzed during the FBI’s five-year investigation.

FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SENTENCED TO 70 MONTHS IN FEDERAL
PRISON IN 3.1 MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD SCHEME
Judge McLaughlin commented prior to sentencing that over the years of the
embezzlement, Clark was likely spending more time keeping up with the
embezzlement scheme than she was doing legitimate work.

EIGHT EXECUTIVES ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF CONSPIRING TO RIG BIDS, FIX
PRICES, AND ALLOCATE MARKETS FOR SALES OF MARINE HOSE
According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint charging Whittle,
Allison, Brammar and Cognard, the conspirators met in locations such as Key
Largo, Fla., Bangkok, and London. At these meetings, the conspirators discussed
and agreed to the rules for implementing their bid-rigging, price-fixing and
allocation scheme. They also allegedly kept agendas and detailed “minutes” of
cartel meetings.

WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO EMBEZZLING OVER $200,000 FROM TRACY CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that DIANE B.GLAZIER, 45,
of Tracy, California, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge
Edward J. Garcia in federal court in Sacramento to mail fraud and computer fraud
in connection with the embezzlement of over $200,000 from the Tracy Hospital
Foundation, a charitable foundation which funds health, safety and nutrition
programs in the Tracy area.

Testimony: Black Consulted on Everything
The former second in command of media mogul Conrad Black's Hollinger
International newspaper empire says he never made a financial decision or sold
an asset without consulting Black himself.

Jury convicts Grandview man of fraud
A federal jury on Friday convicted a Grandview man for a series of fraud schemes
that resulted in a loss of $1.5 million by a Las Vegas church and several individual
victims.

Woman admits bank embezzlement
Schroeder was a branch manager at First Interstate Bank in Bozeman when
prosecutors say she stole $34,632 between March 2002 and January 2006 by
transferring money from an overdraft account to a credit card advance clearing
account.

Sheffield woman sentenced for embezzlement
A former employee of Pines Rehabilitation and Health Center in Lyndon will spend
30 days in prison for embezzling nearly $40,000 from 22 different residents, the
Vermont Attorney General's office announced today.

Study assails "pay for failure" at U.S. companies
Dell Inc., Eli Lilly and Co. and Ford Motor Co. are among the 12 worst offenders of
so-called "pay for failure" for their chief executives, a study released on Monday
has found.