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Updated:  11/23/05 7:54 a.m.

11/23/05 Justice Dept drops Arthur Andersen case - The U.S. Justice Department
on Tuesday moved to dismiss an indictment against Arthur Andersen, the
one-time "Big Five" accounting firm that was ruined after being found guilty of
destroying documents related to energy company Enron Corp.

11/23/05 Michael Rigas to plead guilty - Former Adelphia Communications Corp.
vice president Michael Rigas is expected to plead guilty today and avert a retrial
on securities fraud charges, a court official said.

11/23/05 Man admits SBA loan bank fraud - Queensbury businessman admitted
defrauding the Small Business Administration and lenders of $1.6 million in a
complex scheme to buy a California asbestos abatement company in 1998.

11/23/05 Australian jailed in airline fraud case - Australian jailed in airline fraud
case

11/22/05 Head of religious communications business sentenced for fraud -  The
head of a religious communications company that once claimed global success has
been sentenced to more than five years in prison for bilking creditors out of $13.3
million.

11/22/05 Sheppard pleads innocent to HomeGold fraud charges - Former
HomeGold Financial chief executive Ronald J. Sheppard pleaded not guilty today to
10 counts of securities fraud related to the collapse of the company.

11/22/05 Allou officials plead guilty to fraud, bribery schemes - Top executives of
Allou Healthcare Inc. pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to what
prosecutors called "a staggering, decade-long bank fraud and securities fraud
scheme," involving hundreds of millions of dollars of phony sales and inflated
inventory that ultimately drove the company into bankruptcy.

11/22/05 Black court hearing on fraud charges delayed - The arraignment of
Conrad Black, the former media mogul, was delayed until November 30 after US
prosecutors gave him more time to prepare his defence against fraud charges.

11/22/05 Man Gets 20 Years for Evasion Scheme - In one of the stiffest jail
sentences handed down in a tax case, Dallas' Daniel A. Fisher was sentenced to
serve 235 months and pay a $1 million fine.
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