Posts Tagged ‘transparency’

Bettencourt former accountant ‘helped daughter in fight for fortune’
Henry Samuel in Paris
September 3, 2010
Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7980066/Bettencourt-former-accountant-helped-daughter-in-fight-for-fortune.html
Claire Thibout, an accountant for Liliane Bettencourt for 10 years, received a letter from Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers dated 11 July 2007 promising to “help” her should she be fired for speaking out about her mother’s allegedly rapacious and manipulative entourage – in particular [...]

Spitzer opens up personnel file
Kimberly Edds
September 1, 2010
The Orange County Register
http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2010/09/01/spitzer-opens-up-personnel-file/40063/
Former Assistant District Attorney Todd Spitzer hand delivered his  personnel file from the District Attorney’s Office to us Wednesday afternoon – all 53 pages – for Total Buzz to review as he continues to wage his campaign that he was improperly fired by his former [...]

Wealthy 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark gives her longtime nurse millions
James Fanelli/Dave Goldiner
September 2, 2010
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/02/2010-09-02_senior_104_gives_her_nurse_millions.html
The fabulously wealthy heiress who lives in a Manhattan hospital room gave her longtime nurse cash to buy homes worth nearly $2 million, the woman’s lawyer said Wednesday.
Huguette Clark, 104, gave Filipino-born nurse Hadassah Peri money to buy four [...]

Regarding the legal industry and its “never waste a good crisis” mentality, James R. Copland from the Manhattan Institute has a good column out today entitled Litigating over the environment makes big bucks for trial lawyers.
The story of a California bank teller who stole money from two accounts poses a thought-provoking question for those in [...]

Former Asst. D.A. Spitzer: Firing had political motive
Kimberly Edds
September 1, 2010
The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/news/spitzer-264556-attorney-district.html
Ousted Assistant District Attorney Todd Spitzer claims Susan Kang Schroeder, the district attorney’s chief of staff, colluded with her boss Tony Rackauckas to get him fired in the hopes of derailing Spitzer’s plans to be the next Orange County District Attorney - [...]