• More Pictures of Post-Hurricane New Orleans

    Here is a follow-up to last week’s post on my visit to New Orleans and my tour of hurricane-damaged areas. These two are pictures of the levees being rebuilt:

  • Computer Associates Ex-Executive Sentenced to Prison

    Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of Computer Associates International (now called CA Inc.) has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $8 million for his guilty plea to charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors […]

  • Pictures of Post-Katrina New Orleans

    In late September, I visited New Orleans and took a tour of the hurricane-damaged areas. Specifically, we visited one of the hardest-hit areas, the Ninth Ward and Lower Ninth Ward. These are just a few of the pictures that I […]

  • Richard Hatch of “Survivor” fame gets prison sentence

    The first winner of the popular reality television show “Survivor” was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his conviction on tax evasion charges. Richard Hatch, 45, was convicted in January of failing to pay taxes on the $1 million […]

  • The IRS Is Using Outside Debt Collectors

    Starting in September, the IRS is contracting with outside debt collectors to go after delinquent taxpayers. The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 authorized the IRS to contract with private firms to do this work. The three firms currently under […]

  • Happy Halloween… witch tales

    A court in Munich, Germany has ruled that a witch must refund a fee paid by a client, for whom her “love spell” failed. The client paid about $1,275 for the witch to help win back her boyfriend, who left […]

  • Hacking into ATMs with a few internet searches

    Who would have thought it would be this easy to break into an ATM and run off with all the money? CNN recetnly reported that a man was able to reprogram an ATM at a gas station, so that it […]

  • Guilty pleas in Coca-Cola trade secrets case

    Two of the three people accused of conspiring to steal trade secrets from Coca-Cola and sell them to rival Pepsi pleaded guilty on Monday to one federal charge of conspiracy. The attorney for the third accused conspirator, Joya Williams, says […]

  • Jeffrey Skilling Gets a Long Prison Sentence

    Today a federal judge sentenced former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling to 24 years and 4 months in prison for his conviction on federal charges of conspiracy, fraud and insider trading. Skilling, 52, was also fined over $18 million for his […]

  • MassMutual appeals ruling on firing of CEO Robert O’Connell

    An arbitrator ruled that Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. fired its chief executive officer, Robert J. O’Connell, without cause. MassMutual’s board of directors fired him last year after alleging that he improperly increased the value of a retirement account by […]