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By Laurel Brubaker Calkins U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent, the first sitting federal judge accused of sex crimes, pleaded not guilty and was allowed to remain free on bond after the charges were expanded to include allegations by a ...

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By Jef Feeley and Thom Weidlich A U.S. appeals court upheld the conviction of former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling for spearheading the fraud that destroyed the world’s largest energy trader, while finding defects in his sentence. A ...

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Tyson pleads guilty to worker’s poisoning Tyson Foods, the second-largest U.S. chicken producer, pleaded guilty to willful violations of worker-safety regulations that led to the death of an employee at an Arkansas plant. The U.S. Justice Department said in a ...

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Procter & Gamble Co., the world’s largest consumer-products company, said a rival has agreed to stop selling look-a-like versions of its Olay moisturizing cream to settle a lawsuit. Fruit of the Earth, a closely held company based in Irving, Texas, ...

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By Phil Milford Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, won a judge’s approval to pay $2.5 million in legal fees to settle shareholder lawsuits over last year’s $52 billion merger. Leuven, Belgium-based InBev said in June it would buy Anheuser-Busch ...

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H&R Block must defend against claims by New York that it deceptively marketed retirement accounts to both residents and nonresidents, an appeals court ruled. New York’s Appellate Division in Manhattan, in a decision made public Tuesday, upheld a lower-court decision, ...

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