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...witnessed that same dogged approach to public health many years before, when he and I worked together in the early 1990s on eliminating polio in the Western Pacific?a daunting task made harder by a lack of funds and by long days without sleep...
...Buell, an early member of the Enron Task Force, remembers how difficult it was to assemble a case back in January 2002--a month after the company's bankruptcy and with the suicide of Enron's vice chairman Cliff Baxter seared into everyone's conscience. "Enron was the 9/11 of the financial markets," says Buell, now a visiting law professor at the University of Texas, "but nobody wanted to be a witness." Slowly, the task force's prosecutors turned the screws on the bad guys. But it was early 2004 before they had enough "serious momentum" to indict Skilling...
Enron joins WorldCom, Adelphia and Tyco among the big companies busted by President Bush's Corporate Fraud Task Force, which has won 1,063 convictions, including guilty verdicts against 36 chief financial officers and 167 corporate CEOs and presidents. "Behavior has clearly changed since the Enron crisis," says Roman Weil, a professor of accounting at the University of Chicago. Part of that is a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, which holds bosses criminally responsible if their company's accounting is faulty. So CEOs are paying closer attention to financial statements--and passing that responsibility down the line. "The criminalization...
...That task is enormous. Over the past year, TIME reporters who visited the worst-hit areas in the east of the country found much of it in ruins. Roads and railway lines have washed away or simply disappeared into the jungle. Hospitals and health clinics have been destroyed. Electricity, for those lucky enough to receive it, is patchy. Refugees fleeing fighting between government troops and rebels talk of beheadings, rapes, massacres and torched villages. Their stories, coming eight years after the start of fighting in Congo, sound eerily similar to the reports of atrocities committed in Darfur. In that sense...
...smaller meeting after last night’s public session, task force member Paul Berkley asked the bi-weekly meetings be reorganized so that their contents would reflect the needs of the neighborhood...