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Seattle Times, 15.03.10 21:50 UTC

Alaska Air CEO '09 pay more than doubled from '08

The chairman and chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group Inc., William S. Ayer, saw his total compensation in 2009 more than double to $4.3 million, compared to the year before, thanks to a bigger performance-based bonus and much larger stock and option awards, according to a regulatory filing.

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WashingtonPost Politics, 15.03.10 20:41 UTC

Sen. Dodd unveils sweeping financial regulation legislation

Senate banking committee chairman Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) introduced on Monday afternoon a far-reaching bill to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system that was aimed at shoring ...

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Seattle Times, 15.03.10 19:56 UTC

Colgate-Palmolive CEO gets 31 percent pay boost

Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s CEO Ian M. Cook's compensation rose 31 percent last year to $14.4 million, as the company's profit rose amid flat sales of its name-brand toothpastes and soaps, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory filings.

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Belfast Telegraph, 15.03.10 10:30 UTC

Report accuses Lehman of exploiting loophole

Former Lehman Brothers directors and their UK advisers could face a fresh blitz of civil and criminal charges following the publication on Friday of the explosive report into the collapse of the Wall ...

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Forbes, 15.03.10 04:15 UTC

Don't Curb Short-Selling

The SEC resides in an unreal world.

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Huffington Post, 14.03.10 20:08 UTC

Andy Kroll: Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com. Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the ...

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The Independent, 14.03.10 00:15 UTC

Fraud charges loom for Lehman Bros

Ex-Lehman Brothers directors and their UK advisers could face a fresh blitz of civil and criminal charges following the publication on Friday of the explosive report into the collapse of the Wall ...

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Seattle Times, 13.03.10 01:20 UTC

Summary Box: Lehman found to use artifice

FALL OF A WALL STREET TITAN: The investment bank Lehman Brothers, saddled with tens of billions of dollars of troubled assets, collapsed into bankruptcy in September 2008. Its fall precipitated the financial meltdown.

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Seattle Times, 13.03.10 00:57 UTC

Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus

Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.

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Seattle Times, 13.03.10 00:33 UTC

Examiner unveils Lehman accounting tricks

An accounting gimmick called Repo 105 provided financial relief for Lehman Brothers in the months before its spectacular collapse, an autopsy of the once-venerable Wall Street house has found. The question now is whether the trickery spells legal jeopardy for executives of Lehman or its auditors Ernst & Young.

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