Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
Here’s part of a dispatch Friday from the China Digital Times:
… Continue ReadingThe scandal surrounding British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in China has widened as a previously unnamed American citizen who has been detained has been identified as Yu Yingzheng, the wife and business partner of fraud investigator Peter Humphrey, who has also been detained.
San Diego-based Qualcomm said this week it has discovered ‘instances in which special hiring consideration, gifts or other benefits . . . were provided to several individuals associated with Chinese state-owned companies or agencies.’… Continue Reading
Here’s a disclosure by Wynn Resorts from its Form 8-K filed with the SEC earlier this month:
… Continue ReadingOn February 13, 2012, Wynn Resorts, Limited (the “Company”) filed a Report on Form 8-K disclosing that it had received a letter from the Salt Lake Regional Office (the “Office”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) advising the Company that the Office had commenced an informal inquiry with respect to certain matters, including a donation by Wynn Macau, Limited, an affiliate of the Company, to the University of Macau Development Foundation.
After a wait of two years, a federal judge Wednesday granted final approval for IBM’s settlement with the SEC of civil FCPA charges.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, left, OK’d the $10 million settlement he first rejected in March 2011.… Continue Reading
Years ago Leona Helmsley — a fabulously wealthy real estate developer who ultimately went to jail for tax evasion — was alleged to have said, “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”… Continue Reading
Li Daqiu, vice chairman of the Guangxi provincial Political Consultative Conference, is under investigation for violations of party discipline. Authorities have not disclosed details of Li’s wrongdoings but local media reports quote sources close to Li as saying that Li’s relatives have reaped huge benefits from local mining and infrastructure industries.… Continue Reading
