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#252 Updated: 9/05/06 10:10 p.m.

09/05/06 Close Loopholes In Law on Fraud
U.S. District Judge David Faber appeared last week to have been wishing he could
have inflicted more punishment on Bob Graham. But Faber is bound to uphold the
laws as they are on the books — not as he and, doubtless, many West Virginians
wish they were written.

09/05/06 Witness Accuses Livedoor of Cheating
A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that Japanese Internet company
Livedoor doctored its earnings by selling and buying its own stock, as the trial of
its former president, Takafumi Horie, entered its second day.

09/05/06 SEC Supports PCAOB in Lawsuit Defense
The February suit challenged the constitutionality of the accounting oversight
board created by Sarbanes-Oxley in 2002.

09/05/06 SEC Accuses 2 of Oil and Gas Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Tuesday that two securities
promoters fraudulently raised $2.2 million from the sale of oil and natural gas
leases to at least 70 investors in Texas and other states.

09/05/06 20 to be arraigned in dock worker payroll fraud
Twenty allegedly crooked conspirators in a scheme to pad the payroll of the
International Longshoremen’s Association are scheduled to be arraigned today for
contributing to a “system of fraud and corruption,” Attorney General Tom Reilly’s
Office said.

09/05/06 European Companies Shave Time to Close
American firms still file their financial reports faster than Europeans, but the U.S.
lead has been cut by two-thirds in the past three years.

09/04/06 Your A to Z Back-to-Work Cheat Sheet
Is it September already? It's time to send the kids back to school, and yes, it's
time for you to get focused again, too.
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