BUSINESS
November 1, 2002 | Peter G. Gosselin, Times Staff Writer
The administration's latest misstep in handling America's corporate crisis has convinced many people on both sides of the political divide that President Bush does not take the business scandals of the last year all that seriously. Revelations that Bush's Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, Harvey L.
NATIONAL
September 27, 2002 | RICHARD SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The brewing face-off with Iraq may have claimed its first casualty: more corporate reform legislation. Prospects for a bevy of measures designed to strengthen protections for workers' pensions and impose new rules of corporate behavior appear to be dimming, in part because of Washington's preoccupation with President Bush's aggressive new stance toward Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Corporate corruption remains a potent political issue.
NATIONAL
July 25, 2002 | RICHARD SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement Wednesday on legislation to tighten oversight of the accounting industry and increase criminal penalties for corporate fraud. President Bush will receive the bill today, after final votes in the House and Senate, and is expected to sign it. The measure authorizes the most far-reaching new business regulation since the 1930s.
BUSINESS
June 16, 2009 | Jim Puzzanghera
The Obama administration this week will propose the most significant new regulation of the financial industry since the Great Depression, including a new watchdog agency to look out for consumers' interests. Under the plan, expected to be released Wednesday, the government would have new powers to seize key companies -- such as insurance giant American International Group Inc. -- whose failure jeopardizes the financial system.
BUSINESS
March 4, 2007 | Marc Lifsher, Abigail Goldman and Janet Wilson, Times Staff Writers
Since the first Earth Day almost 37 years ago, U.S. companies have been eager to trumpet their environmental good deeds, even when they were more about public relations than clean air or water. But increasingly, corporate America is going green in new, serious and costly ways. After years of being prodded -- and in some cases punished -- by protesters, lawmakers, regulators and, now, even Wall Street, businesses are looking beyond the bottom line.
BUSINESS
February 20, 2003 | Michael Hiltzik
Late last year, just as 2002 was about to be anointed the "Year of the Whistleblower" by Time magazine, a state judge in Los Angeles booted Christine Casey's lawsuit out of his courtroom. Casey's claim was that she had been forced from her financial analysis job at Mattel Inc.'s El Segundo headquarters for trying to advise top management about how they might acquire accurate information about consumer demand for Barbies and other toys.