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| _________::::____#32 - September 21, 2005_______________ |
| Updated: 9/20/05 10:24 p.m. 09/20/05 Glaxo settles drug pricing case, U.S. says - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has paid more than $150 million to settle government charges that the company fraudulently inflated the price of drugs purchased by federal health-care programs, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. 09/20/05 Ex-Hollinger Executive Radler Pleads Guilty to Fraud - David Radler, the former chief operating officer of Hollinger International Inc., pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge and agreed to cooperate with a Justice Department probe of his former boss, Conrad Black. 09/20/05 Fraud 'starts at the top,' says analyst - If you're considering blowing the whistle on your company's illicit activities, it may be best to have someone like Harry Markopolos on your side. 09/20/05 Judge Orders Scrushy, SEC to Mediate - HealthSouth's former chairman and CEO has been campaigning for his old job; if the SEC prevails, Scrushy would likely face a permanent bar from serving as a director or officer of any public company. 09/20/05 GAO Questions Adequacy of SEC Fund Probes - Congressional investigators have questioned the adequacy of inspections of mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission, a few months after finding that the agency failed to uncover trading abuses throughout the fund industry that cost investors billions of dollars. |