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The messy Mark Hurd affair at Hewlett-Packard has given rise to much discussion about the H-P board. Some have praised it for acting forthrightly. Many noted a Wall Street Journal article on how the... Read more...

The Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) near-scandal regarding its CDO (CDO news) practices highlights again the need for robust email archiving systems. There has been a lot of talk about IM via computer or... Read more...

Jeff Skilling, the CEO of Enron and the poster boy for gargantuan corporate frauds, has won a huge victory in his bid to get out of jail. The Supreme Court has decided to hear his appeal, which means... Read more...

As you know, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling--the man perhaps most responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley--has been waging an all-out war to get his 24-year prison sentence reduced. While he's exhausted... Read more...

> Prosecutors: Skilling does not deserve new trial. Article> Dems nominate two for SEC commissioner openings. Read more...

The conventional thinking on stock options backdating cases was that prosecutors would have the best... Read more...

The plight of Gary Gerhardt, former CFO of Engineered Support Systems, is a cautionary one for anyone in the compliance arena. Is informing your auditor, in this case Read more...

The stunning Enron verdicts in some ways marked the high point for the historic wave of corporate prosecutions we've witnessed recently. There are some who think that we've hit another kind of... Read more...

The first instance of a foreign company sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Sarbanes-Oxley has been settled. Ricardo Salinas Pliego agreed to pay $7.5 million and will not be able... Read more...

Where in the world is Kobi Alexander, who was hit recently with a raft of options- and Sarbox-related fraud charges? The hunt for the former CEO of Comverse, a once high-flying tech firm, has... Read more...