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#236 Updated: 8/13/06 8:12 p.m.

08/12/06 AICPA, AAA and IAASB Launch Project on Auditor Reports
A trio of professional groups have joined forces to launch a research project to
explore user perceptions of financial statement audits and auditor reports.

08/12/06 Author Grass says he served with SS
Nobel prize-winning German author Guenter Grass has admitted for the first time
that he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat arm of Adolf Hitler's dreaded
paramilitary forces.

08/12/06 Former Wal-Mart official sentenced
Tom Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vice chairman who admitted to
stealing thousands of dollars from the company, was sentenced yesterday to 27
months of home confinement.

08/10/06 Judge freezes assets of man accused of $22 million con job
Jon W. James of Manhattan Beach held free seminars -- complete with free dinner
-- during which he promised potential investors high rates of return

08/10/06 Former Cokato bank president pleads guilty to fraud
The former president and director of the State Bank of Cokato has pleaded guilty
to federal bank fraud.

08/10/06 Former Endocare Execs Charged With Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it has filed civil fraud
charges against two former Endocare Inc. executives, accusing them of
orchestrating a fraud in 2001 and 2002.