DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 2002
Crime and Domestic Terrorism
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Last updated on October 23,
2002
Chandra Levy
- Timeline of disappearance and latest news
- E-mail groups and water cooler discussion
Gary Condit
- House of Representatives web site
- Articles about Condit, his assistance to his constituents
- Links to missing children information
Condit Media Blitz
Washington
D.C.
Metropolitan Police
- Photo of Chandra Levy and description
- Press release on finding her remains
- Contacts for further information
Comprehensive
Corporate Reforms
- Corporate
Responsibility Portal (White House)
- Executive order calling for a Corporate Fraud Task Force
- Ten-point plan with details on combating corporate fraud
- Related remarks on pension reform regulation and investigation of
WorldCom
- President
Bush's Wall Street Speech
- Speech calls for maximum 10-year jail penalties for corporate fraud,
improving SEC enforcement effort, independent accounting board
- Speech made July
9, 2002
- Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002
- Also known as the Corporate Responsibility Act
- HR 3763 signed by the President on July 30, 2002
- Establishes independent accounting board
- Requires CEO's sign SEC statements; establishes stiff penalties for
white collar crimes
ENRON
Collapse
- Amalgamated Bank v. Kenneth
Lay
- Arthur Andersen
(Auditors)
- Search ENRON for news releases on the disposal of documents
- Baxter Suicide
- J.
Clifford Baxter Suicide (CNN)
- News report of apparent suicide of Enron executive on January 25, 2002
- Vice chairman of Enron, who resigned in May 2001
- Testimony requested by Congress
- Congressional Hearings
- Senate
Commerce Committee held hearings on December 18, 2001
- Senate web site has selected testimony
- House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on December 19,
2001
- ENRON Corporation
- Chapter 11 baankruptcy filings
- News for former investors, traders and employees
- Press releases on reorganization process
- Enron
(Washington Post)
- Special section with archived news stories on Enron and its audit
- History of the company, credit reports
- Special attention to the auditors
- Enron: Fall of
a Giant (Open Secrets)
- Description of Enron's collapse
- Enron's contributions to presidential candidates and members of
Congress
- Top individual donors
- Powers
Report
- Report on causes for ENRON's fall, including partnerships, poor
leadership
- Commissioned by the ENRON Board of Directors and released on Feb. 2,
2002
- PDF version is almost 10 MB
- Role
of the Board of Directors in the Enron Collapse
- Blames Enron's Board of Directors for not ensuring Enron's fair
business practices
- Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations special committee chaired by Susan Collins
- Report released in July 2002
- 61 pages in pdf format
- Senate Report 107-70
- Whistleblower's
Letter (ABC)
- Detailed letter asking Mr. Lay about accounting problems at Enron
- Suggests people to talk to
- Sent in August 2001
Pension Reform
- How Safe is
Your 401k
- Advice on buying corporate stock
- President's
Plan
- Announced on February 2, 2002
- Calls for parity between executives and workers; ability to sell
employer stock after three years; fair accounting; White House task
force
- Red Flags for Investors
(MSNBC)
- Pat Dorsey's advice on reading corporate statements
WorldCom
- Financial Report
Verification (SEC)
- Order to the 945 largest companies on the stock exchange to verify
their 2001 earnings reports
- Order made by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 28, 2002
- Alphabetical list of companies involved
- SEC Files Charges Against
Worldcom (MSNBC)
- Initial report on WorldCom contributed by Dan Faber of affiliated CNBC
- Numerous links to history of case and examples of accounting
- WorldCom Sworn
Statement
- Statement of accounting errors required by SEC before stock market
opening on July 1, 2002
- Says the company needs more time to investigate
- WorldCom
Says Its Books Off by $3.8 Billion (Washington Post)
- Article reporting faulty accounting and dated June 26, 2002
- Links to its stock prices, company description, and analyst
ratings
- WorldCom Sworn
Statement
- Statement of accounting errors required by SEC before stock market
opening on July 1, 2002
- Says the company needs more time to investigate
- Wrong
Numbers: The Accounting Problems at Worldcom (House Financial
Services)
- Prepared statements of witnesses at the House Financial Services
hearing on WorldCom on July 8, 2002
- Bernard Ebbers and Scott Sullivan took the 5th Amendment
Governor's
Blue Ribbon Panel on Child Protection
- Five-year-old Rilya Wilson was reported missing on April 25, 2002, 15
months after she disappeared from her Miami foster home
- Report traces the supervisory failures by the Florida Dept. of
Children and Families
Blake
Timeline
- Brief record of career and marriages in timeline fashion
Murder
Charge
- Murder charge filed against Robert Blake
- Filed in Los Angeles on April 22, 2002
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