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#258 Updated: 9/13/06 9:26 p.m.

9/13/2006 Ex-SEC Head to Run Adelphia Victims Comp
Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Richard C. Breeden will
administer the compensation process for victims of a massive accounting scandal
at Adelphia Communications Corp., prosecutors said Wednesday.

9/13/2006 Co-workers testify at Merc employee embezzlement trial
The trial of a Fox Lake woman accused of embezzling $266,000 from the Mercury
Marine cafeteria continued Tuesday with testimony from the woman's co-workers.

9/13/2006 2 Reach Accords in Nestle Embezzlement
Two Pennsylvania men charged with mail fraud and failing to pay taxes on $6.4
million that federal prosecutors say they embezzled from food and beverage giant
Nestle USA Inc. are to enter guilty pleas as part of a plea agreement, authorities
said Tuesday.

9/13/2006 Judge mulls reducing sentence in Dynegy fraud
A U.S. judge on Wednesday said he will try to rule next week on whether to
reduce the 24-year sentence given to a former Dynegy Inc. (DYN.N: Quote, Profile,
Research) manager convicted of fraud in a series of fictional trades that inflated
the company's cash flow by $300 million
  
9/13/2006 Ex-HealthSouth CFO Gets 3 Yrs. in Prison
Former HealthSouth Corp. CFO Mike Martin has been sentenced to three years in
prison for his role in a $2.7 billion fraud at the health-care company, ending a
sentencing saga that once put him on probation and house arrest.

9/13/2006 OJ, me and my mate the taxman, by Paul Hogan
The man otherwise known as Mick Dundee responds by letter to a series of Herald
reports about his dealings with the tax office.