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can the British people be sure once again that their money is safe in their bank accounts?By Colin Brown and Ben RussellThe Independent UKNovember 21. 2007Seven million families are having to make urgent checks on their bank accounts today after the biggest security blunder in history led to the personal details of 25 million fathers mothers and children being lost by the Whitehall department responsible for all tax and benefits. The head of HM Revenue and Customs. Paul Gray – one of the country's most highly paid civil servants – resigned his £198,000-a-year post as the scale of the fiasco became clear. But the Prime Minister and his embattled Chancellor. Alistair Darling were counting the cost to their own reputations last night as the disaster left them looking accident-prone and open to opposition charges of incompetence. The news that a package containing the personal details of every family in Britain with a child under 16 had gone missing in the post was greeted with astonishment and anger when it was revealed to MPs by the Chancellor. It could not have come at a worse time for Mr Darling who just 24 hours earlier had come under sustained attack from the opposition after admitting that taxpayers' money could be at risk in the £24bn rescue of Northern Rock. Damaging as that crisis has been for the Government the political fallout from the loss of millions of families' personal data could prove even more far-reaching. Gleeful Tories urging the Chancellor in the starkest of language to "get a grip" were comparing it to John Major's hapless last days in power. There was an audible intake of breath in the Commons as Mr Darling told MPs that two discs containing the details of all child benefit recipients records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families had been lost. The records included the recipient's name and those of their children their addresses and dates of birth child benefit numbers national insurance numbers and where relevant bank or building society account details – all the facts that fraudsters need to illegally remove money from banks. They are the details that families are regularly being warned by the Government not to reveal to potential fraudsters. And they would be worth a fortune on the black market. A junior official from HM Revenue and Customs had sent the discs to the National Audit Office at the NAO's request on 18 October by the HMRC's internal post run by the courier firm TNT even though it was in clear breach of the department's rules governing the release of such sensitive information and may have been in breach of data protection regulations. The NAO realising it had not received the data ordered a further copy to be sent by HMRC. This time it was sent by registered post and did arrive. It was only on 8 November almost three weeks after the first discs were posted that senior HMRC officials were told they were missing. They informed the Chancellor on 10 November a Saturday. Hardly believing his ears the Chancellor ordered " He decided that the breach of security was so grave that he had to tell the Prime Minister immediately. On 12 November. Mr Gray told Mr Darling that evidence might have been found of the route taken by the data and that the discs were likely to be recovered. However two days later those hopes were dashed when the HMRC chairman admitted that the internal searches had failed to trace the discs. The Chancellor ordered Mr Gray immediately to call in the Metropolitan Police to conduct a full investigation to find the missing package. That inquiry was still under way yesterday. The police say they are confident no crime was involved. Mr Darling told the Commons: " It is not the first time that data has gone missing from the HMRC. The Information Commissioner was already investigating two earlier breaches by the department. In September an HMRC employee reported that his laptop had been stolen from his car. The laptop contained customer details from about 15 financial institutions. The information was encrypted but the computer bag contained print-outs of some individuals' data. And in October the HMRC sent a CD via courier to Standard Life but the disc was lost en route. The CD was not encrypted and contained details of 15,000 Standard Life customers including names and national insurance numbers. For 10 days the Government has been sitting on the news knowing that when it came out there would be outrage mixed with deep anxiety. Last week major clearing banks were secretly warned by the Government that there was a potential security breach. They were asked to make sure there had been no sudden surge in raids on personal bank accounts evidence that the nightmare scenario – the discs falling into the hands of organised crime syndicates – had happened. On Monday the Chancellor was told by the banks that they had found no trace of accounts being raided. That was the assurance he needed before a public announcement could be made. George Osborne the shadow Chancellor urged Mr Darling to take control of the crisis. " Fall from grace of a dependable civil servantBearded and bespectacled sober and sensible. Paul Gray was known throughout the Civil Service as trustworthy and dependable. But that reputation was dealt a huge blow when he was held responsible for the biggest blunder in British data protection history. Although many MPs believe he has been made the "fall guy" for the incompetence of others there was little doubt that the head of the chairman of HM Revenue and Customs would have to be the first to roll. Mr Gray. 59 who is married with two sons was one of the 300 highest-paid civil servants earning £198,000 a year. It is likely he will keep his pension but the Cabinet Office said yesterday he would not receive a special resignation package. Mr Gray joined the Treasury in 1969 and rose steadily through the ranks to become the economic affairs private secretary to the Conservative prime minister. Margaret Thatcher. When she quit in 1990 he returned to the Treasury to work on monetary policy. He then became head of personnel and central services. In 1998. Mr Gray joined the Department of Social Security as head of policy before becoming second permanent secretary for pensions and disability in the Department for Work and Pensions. He oversaw the merger of the former DSS the Employment Service and parts of the Department for Education and Employment which made him the ideal choice to head the merged Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise departments when the HMRC was established by Gordon Brown in 2004. Mr Gray a Leicester City football fan keeps a small flock of Wensleydale sheep. He will now have a lot more time to tend them. Chavez said calling the euro a better option. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah had tried to direct the focus of the summit toward studying the effect of the oil industry on the environment but he continuously faced challenges from Ahmadinejad and Chavez. Iran and Venezuela have proposed trading oil in a basket of currencies to replace the historic link to the dollar but they had not been able to generate support from enough fellow OPEC members _ many of whom including Saudi Arabia are staunch U. S allies. Both Iran and Venezuela have antagonistic relationships with the U. S. suggesting their proposals may have a political motivation as well. While Tehran has been in a standoff with Washington over its nuclear program left-wing Chavez is a bitter antagonist of Bush. U. S sanctions on Iran also have made it increasingly difficult for the country to do business in dollars. During Chavez's opening address to the summit on Saturday the Venezuelan leader said OPEC should " But Abdullah appeared to distance himself from Chavez's comments saying OPEC always acted moderately and wisely. A day earlier. Saudi Arabia opposed a move by Iran on Friday to have OPEC include concerns over the falling dollar included in the summit's closing statement after the weekend meeting. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister even warned that even talking publicly about the currency's decline could further hurt its value. But by Sunday it appeared that Saudi Arabia had compromised. Though the final declaration delivered Sunday did not specifically mention concern over the weak dollar the organization directed its finance ministers to study the issue. OPEC will " He did not give a timeline for the recommendation. The meeting in Riyadh with heads of states and delegates from 13 of the world's biggest oil-producing nations was the third full OPEC summit since the organization was created in 1960. Abdullah tried to take the focus off the dollar debate announcing the donation of $300 million to set up a program to study the effect of the oil industry on the environment. Kuwait. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates also agreed to donate $150 million each to the fund. Prince Saud Al-Faisal. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Sunday. The run-up to the meeting was dominated by speculation over whether OPEC would raise production following recent oil price increases that have approached $100. But cartel officials have resisted pressure to increase oil production and said they will hold off any decision until the group meets next month in Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emirates. They have also cast doubt on the effect any output hike would have on oil prices saying the recent rise has been driven by the falling dollar and financial speculation by investment funds rather than any supply shortage. During his final remarks el-Badri stressed he was committed to supply _ but did not mention changing oil outputs. Government plans to divert oil into reserve. November 8. 2007APThe Department of Energy (DOE) secretary on Thursday defended plans to divert oil into the federal emergency reserve although he acknowledged that tight supplies likely are one reason for surging crude oil prices. The DOE announced it has awarded contracts to three companies—Shell Trading Co.. Sunoco Logistics and BP North America—for 12.3 million barrels of oil to go into the government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in January. Deliveries are scheduled at a rate of 70,000 barrels a day for six months. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve a system of salt caverns along the Louisiana and Texas coast contains 694 million barrels of oil to be used in a supply emergency. The government is working to fill it to its 727 million barrel capacity. The companies are providing the oil in lieu of royalty payments. Source:____________________________Uranium might go through Port of TacomaNovember 8. 2007The News TribuneUranium might go through port. A potential customer for a Port of Tacoma terminal operator could bring a new cargo that the port does not want. Washington United Terminals the Tacoma Fire Department said is pursuing a shipping line whose cargo mix includes uranium hexafluoride. The compound is a form of uranium used to produce fuel for nuclear reactors. The department’s deputy chief of fire prevention said recently that it issued a conditional permit to Washington United Terminals that would allow the company to handle the cargo as long as it develops sufficient site safety and transportation plans. Washington United Terminals and the shipping line are still negotiating a deal and nothing has been finalized according to the deputy chief of fire prevention. Source:___________________ OPEC head hits back at U. S claims on oilNovember 15. 2007TelegraphThe OPEC Secretary General rejected claims that a worldwide crude shortage was behind the surge in oil to near-$100 a barrel and said that America could do more to ease its problems. The comments follow a call last night from the U. S. Energy Secretary for OPEC to lift production in order to drive oil from heights that threaten to stall economic growth. The secretary general criticized the lack of investment in U. S refineries for contributing to the high price of oil and he wanted to remind consumer nations that the average price for 2007 was still $70. Source:______________________Tyson to build $126M biofuels plantNovember 14. 2007The AdvertiserTyson Foods is expected to announce today that it will build a $126 million biodiesel plant in Louisiana producing fuel from chicken fat. The meat processing company is expanding its presence in the state to include the biodiesel operation said the assistant secretary of Louisiana Economic Development but Tyson would not allow him to announce the site for the plant yet. More commonly made from soybean oil biodiesel can mix at any amount with petro-diesel and unlike with ethanol in most cars diesel engines need few or no modifications to burn it. Biodiesel can be transported in pipes while ethanol can not and has 3.2 units of energy for every one unit used to make it. As more meat companies contribute their fat to the fuel cause it will increase the national biodiesel supply and lower cost to consumers. Tyson announced in June that it would build its first biodiesel plant along with Syntroleum a Tulsa. Oklahoma company specializing in synthetic and renewable fuels. Tyson and Syntroleum's joint venture called Dynamic Fuels LLC was formed to produce synthetic fuels targeting the renewable diesel jet and military fuel markets. In the company’s announcement it cited Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport as a possible major customer since the B-52 has been retrofitted to run on biodiesel. Source:______________________Armed gangs target South African nuclear facilityNovember 13. 2007AFPArmed gangs target South African nuclear facility. Two armed gangs made simultaneous attempts last week to break into South Africa’s main nuclear research facility an official said on Tuesday. The chief executive of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) said that a guard had been shot and wounded during one of the break-ins at the Pelindaba plant west of Pretoria. Another group of would-be intruders fled after a second member of security opened fire at them. A computer was taken during the course of the first raid. The victim is now in stable condition. The chief executive denied that any nuclear installation at the site including the research nuclear reactor had been compromised by the breaches of security. But Necsa had suspended the people managing security at the facility pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Source:_______________________ ” or in other words stop using the dollar or even the euro for oil transactions. In September. Chavez instructed Venezuela’s state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA to change its dollar investments to euros and other currencies in order to mitigate risk. Sudan: Sudan is once again planning to convert its dollar holdings to the euro and other currencies. Additionally they’ve recommended to commercial banks government departments and private businesses to do the same. In 1997 the Central Bank of Sudan made a similar recommendation in reaction to US sactions from former President Clinton but the implementation failed. This time around. 31 Sudanese companies have become subject to sanctions preventing them from doing trade or financial transactions with the US. Officially the sanctions are reported to have little effect but there are indications that the economy is suffering due to these restrictions. A decision to move Sudan away from the dollar is intended to allow the country to work around these sanctions as well as any implemented in the future. However a Khartoum committee recently concluded that proposals for a reduced dependence on the dollar are “ ” Regardless it is clear that Sudan’s intent is to attempt a break from the dollar in the future. Iran: Iran is perhaps the most likely candidate for an imminent abandonment of the dollar. Recently. Iran requested that its shipments to Japan be traded for yen instead of dollars. Further. Iran has plans in the works to create an open commodity exchange called the Iran Oil Bourse. This exchange would make it possible to trade oil and gas in non-dollar currencies the euro in particular. Athough the oil bourse has missed at least three of its announced opening dates it serves to make clear Iran’s intentions for the dollar. As of October 2007. Iran receives non-dollar currencies for 85% of its oil exports and has plans to move the remaining 15% to currencies like the United Arab Emirates dirham. Russia: Iran is not alone in its desire to establish an alternative to trading oil and other commodities in dollars. In 2006. Russian President Vladmir Putin expressed interest in establishing a Russian stock exchange which would allow Then in 2005. Russia put an end to its dollar peg opting instead to move towards a euro alignment. They’ve discussed pricing oil in euros a move that could provide a large shift away from the dollar and towards the euro as Russia is the world’s second-largest oil exporter. What does this all mean?Countries are growing weary of losing money on the falling dollar. Many of them want to protect their financial interests and a number of them want to end the US oversight that comes with using the dollar. Although it’s not clear how many of these countries will actually follow through on an abandonment of the dollar it is clear that its status as a world currency is in trouble. Obviously an abandonment of the dollar is bad news for the currency. Simply put as demand lessens its value drops. Additionally the revenue generated from the use of the dollar will be sorely missed if it’s lost. The dollar’s status as a cheaply-produced US export is a vital part of our economy. Losing this status could rock the financial lives of both Americans and the worldwide economy. Source:______________________ Even when the price of food was low. 850 million people went hungry because they could not afford to buy it. With every increment in the price of flour or grain several million more are pushed below the breadline. The cost of rice has risen by 20% over the past year maize by 50% wheat by 100%. Biofuels aren't entirely to blame -- by taking land out of food production they exacerbate the effects of bad harvests and rising demand -- but almost all the major agencies are now warning against expansion. And almost all the major governments are ignoring them. They turn away because biofuels offer a means of avoiding hard political choices. They create the impression that governments can cut carbon emissions and -- as Ruth Kelly the British transport secretary announced last week -- keep expanding the transport networks. New figures show that British drivers puttered past the 500 billion kilometer mark for the first time last year. But it doesn't matter: we just have to change the fuel we use. No one has to be confronted. The demands of the motoring lobby and the business groups clamouring for new infrastructure can be met. The people being pushed off their land remain unheard. In principle burning biofuels merely releases the carbon they accumulated when they were growing. Even when you take into account the energy costs of harvesting refining and transporting the fuel they produce less net carbon than petroleum products. The law the British government passed a fortnight ago -- by 2010. 5% of our road transport fuel must come from crops -- will it claims save between 700,000 and 800,000 tonnes of carbon a year. It derives this figure by framing the question carefully. If you count only the immediate carbon costs of planting and processing biofuels they appear to reduce greenhouse gases. When you look at the total impacts you find that they cause more warming than petroleum. A recent study by the Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen shows that the official estimates have ignored the contribution of nitrogen fertilizers. They generate a greenhouse gas -- nitrous oxide -- which is 296 times as powerful as CO2. These emissions alone ensure that ethanol from maize causes between 0.9 and 1.5 times as much warming as petrol while rapeseed oil (the source of over 80% of the world's biodiesel) generates 1-1.7 times the impact of diesel. This is before you account for the changes in land use. A paper published in Science three months ago suggests that protecting uncultivated land saves over 30 years between two and nine times the carbon emissions you might avoid by ploughing it and planting biofuels(13). Last year the research group LMC International estimated that if the British and European target of a 5% contribution from biofuels were to be adopted by the rest of the world the global acreage of cultivated land would expand by 15%. That means the end of most tropical forests. It might also cause runaway climate change. The British government says it will strive to ensure that " which will offer jobs cash crops and economic power to African smallholders. Yes it can grow on poor land and be cultivated by smallholders. But it can also grow on fertile land and be cultivated by largeholders. If there is one blindingly obvious fact about biofuel it's that it is not a smallholder crop. It is an internationally-traded commodity which travels well and can be stored indefinitely with no premium for local or organic produce. Already the Indian government is planning 14m hectares of jatropha plantations. In August the first riots took place among the peasant farmers being driven off the land to make way for them. If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war. Millions will be displaced hundreds of millions more could go hungry. This crime against humanity is a complex one but that neither lessens nor excuses it. If people starve because of biofuels. Ruth Kelly and her peers will have killed them. Like all such crimes it is perpetrated by cowards attacking the weak to avoid confronting the strong. 18 Years on and Exxon Still Won't Pay $2.5 Billion for Valdez Oil SpillBy Riki OttAlterNetNovember 5. 2007The Supreme Court's recent decision to hear ExxonMobil's reasons to void the $2.5 billion punitive award in the Exxon Valdez case hit the town of Cordova. Alaska hard. This small coastal fishing community -- my hometown -- along with the Alaska Native villages in Prince William Sound have borne the brunt of the largest crude oil spill in America's waters; a spill that took place more than 18 years ago but one that continues to hold the region hostage. The second painful blow was the high court's decision to not even hear our reasons why the award should be restored to the full $5 billion that a jury of peers decided was necessary to punish the corporate giant back in 1994. While media pundits lawyers and scholars play the Supreme Court's decisions back and forth like a ping-pong ball people in Cordova share a completely different perspective of this story. It's not about whether the Supreme Court should hear the case. To us it's about justice and reparation -- making us whole a promise Exxon made to the community five days after the spill. A promise that Exxon broke before the trial even started five years after the spill. To us it's about more than an oil spill the world's largest oil corporation and a small fishing community in Alaska. It's about America's failed legal system that inherently cannot dispense justice in the face of corporate globalization. U. S corporations have outgrown America's justice system. The system won't work for any community in America that is traumatized by disaster that triggers class action lawsuits -- hurricanes like Katrina terrorist acts like 9/11 or oil spills like the Exxon Valdez. Yet sociologists warn such disasters will be a hallmark of the 21st century. People in Cordova wonder how this happened and why our legal system no longer metes out justice. When did " " stop meaning to punish? If the original punitive award of $5 billion was sufficient to change corporate behavior why was Exxon the last corporation to double hull its oil tankers to reduce risk of future spills rather than the first?Why shouldn't Exxon be expected to pay to clean up its mess pay penalties for breaking laws compensate victims for losses and pay punitive damages? This is what responsible corporations do -- and it's certainly what Americans expect. The spilled oil -- somewhere between 11 to 38 million gallons ( ) -- created a big mess and broke a lot of federal laws. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Exxon paid $2.5 billion for its cleanup and another $1 billion for penalties. But it might surprise people who live outside Alaska to learn that taxpayers not Exxon paid a majority of that bill. Exxon recouped most of its remaining expense from its insurance companies and from money it paid to settle damages for natural resources -- publicly-owned wildlife and lands. Further. Exxon rewarded its primary cleanup contractor formerly VECO with a cost-plus contract that acted like steroids bulking up this small-time oilfield service contractor into one of the biggest -- spending pro-oil lobbyists in the state -- until its fall from grace this year under charges of federal bribery conspiracy and more. You may have heard of the ongoing FBI investigation that is sweeping Alaska's politicians -- from state legislators to congressional delegates -- into its widening net. While that's another story it serves to illustrate what our justice system deems " Three of Cordova's five fish processors (canneries) went bankrupt after the spill. The largest one never recovered leaving the town with not enough capacity to buy and process large salmon returns like this year. Further the town lost it's only locally owned and operated processor cooperative leaving fishermen with fewer resources to leverage high grounds prices for their catch. The town tumbled from its ranking as one of the top ten seaports in the nation based on harvest value to 53rd after the delayed spill-related pink salmon and herring population collapses in 1992 and 1993 The salmon recovered; the herring did not. The herring fisheries are closed indefinitely. Fishermen who held $300,000 commercial fishing permits for salmon and/or herring fisheries at the time of the spill now own pieces of paper worth around 10 percent their former value -- that is the fishers who did not go bankrupt lose their permit in foreclosures take a loss and sell out die or commit suicide. Fishermen who buy into the fisheries now pay less for the privilege and expect less in return while the spill survivors deal with ever mounting debt on permits that the fisheries no longer supports -- and in many cases that exceeds their individual share of the punitive award at the full $5 billion. This is our world our "normal."I am a Survivor of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. I owned and fished a salmon drift permit in Prince William Sound until I sold out after the fish run collapses in the early 1990s. I have a stake in the Exxon Valdez litigation. But so in a sense does every American. Here's why. No other country in the world has a legal system that is as adversarial costly formal and complex as the United States system. At its core the American legal process is an adversarial system that pits disputing parties against each other before an impartial judge. Justice is " " meted out through punishment of the guilty to make the injured whole. If the Exxon Valdez case is a harbinger of litigation to come it does not bode well for people civic society or the environment. In this case simply put a giant corporation used its wealth to aggressively drive up legal expenses and to reduce delay and eliminate payment of awards to spill victims for more than 18 years and counting. By so doing the giant corporation denied justice to thousands of people. In this case the corporation is Exxon Mobil but other giant corporations that do battle on class action turf wield similar weapons. The forces of aggression released and sanctioned by the American judicial system are horrific -- no one leaves the field unscathed. Psychiatrist Larry Strasburger noted. " The American justice system is predicated on several underlying assumptions most of which are not valid in adversarial litigation as we in Cordova discovered. Equal treatment under the law? Not possible when those with money use it to influence the laws and public perception or manipulate courts of law to make punishment moot. Impartial judges? Not possible when judges are human and often former corporate lawyers. Decisions based on whole truth and facts? Not even close: Jurors receive only selective information from judges or court masters as gatekeepers and facts are grossly distorted through corporate-sponsored "science."Further when cases extend into decades unanticipated long-term injury to people and ecosystems often becomes evident along with science linking harm to the original disaster as was the case with the Exxon Valdez spill. The mechanism to understand the delayed fish collapses in Prince William Sound was not proven until six years after the collapse -- well after the trial was over. Fishers and Alaska Natives were never compensated for this unanticipated long-term harm. Another gross oversight of the American judicial system is that it fails to respond to a very basic human dimension of litigation: process. It turns out the process of dispute resolution is a key determinant in " "Studies show that the thing parties want most is a process that allows them to participate seeks to merit their trust and treats them with dignity and respect. It should not surprise any person that victims who are humans too care a great deal about how they are treated beyond the amount of money they may pay or receive and that accountability is important. Yet in class action litigation individual litigants often feel violated by the very process they are given to make them whole. Just as the aftermath of war is not simply peace so too the aftermath of a disaster especially one with toxic exposures is not simply money. But money is all that the adversarial system can deliver to some-at the expense of justice for all who were injured. As we learned in Cordova it is flat impossible to expect the American punitive justice system to " Perhaps it is time for Americans to question whether the adversarial litigation system is really the best way to ascertain truth insure fairness and dispense justice. If the goal of our justice system is to make people whole then the process should focus on restoring harmony to injured parties and communities with retribution for harm agreed upon through a non-adversarial mediated process. In other words we need a restorative justice system rather than a punitive one. And we in Cordova offer some suggestions for rebuilding our American justice system. First post-disaster disputes could be minimized during preliminary planning and scoping of projects by negotiated legally-binding agreements -- now that we are better informed of the ecological and human costs of disaster. Second financial incentives and rules could be created to encourage dispute resolution through non-adversarial negotiated settlements. Such techniques have proven successful even for disasters involving toxic exposure. Third incentives could be created to shorten litigation timelines by eliminating mechanisms that reward profits through stalling. Fourth if punitive damages are to be effectively applied then they must be linked with corporate profits rather than compensatory damages and they should be shared not only among victims but also among the injured communities to rebuild areas devastated by disaster. In Cordova we hope that it is just a matter of time before these suggestions or other similar ones are demanded by professionals activists and victims fed up with the American "injustice system."We know that change will have to come from each of us as there is little hope that the Supreme Court or any other branch of the current judicial system will take it upon itself to keep from doing more harm to those it was designed to protect. This article was adapted from the forthcoming book Not One Drop: Promises. Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Chelsea Green. 2008). Riki Ott. PhD is a community activist a former fisherm'am and has a degree in marine toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. She is the author of Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and author of the forthcoming book. Not One Drop: Promises. Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Chelsea Green. 2008).

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Ease of information retrieval createsefficiency quicker analysis and moreand exceed questions. Granular reporting gives executives fullinformation. Law department can be managed tobe more effective. Management can calculate moreaccurately and act a better staffingplan. Corporate Risk can be betterunderstood and mitigated. By enabling easy information retrieval both bysearching and reporting. TeamConnect givesMcDonald’s more transparency into the affiliate’slegal management. More comprehensive data alsoaffords a alter understanding of the company’s risksand responsibilities. BENEFITS: exceed VISIBILITYAutomated Document AssemblyIncreases EfficiencyAt McDonald’s. “be management” encompassesfar more than just litigation. Contracts financings,and other law department issues are all subject tothe company’s legal department processes andmanaged via TeamConnect. Time and money is saved in creation ofsimilar agreements. Standardization of agreementsenables simpler relationships with allcontractors. Enables efficient tracking of agreementdeadlines. Ensures agreements remain standard. BENEFITS: DOCUMENT ASSEMBLYIn addition to her role as general discuss. Santonaalso personally runs Marketing and IntellectualProperty. Global Compliance and International. Shealso has three direct reports:MCDONALD’S LEGAL DEPARTMENTBob Switzer. Vice President. Corporate handlescorporate contracts finance technology employeebenefits and securities. Cathy Griffin. U. S. General discuss oversees allU. S.-based matters such as partner brands realestate and development. A aggroup of Division GeneralCounsel who work hand-in-hand with the field alsoreport to Griffin as does Shared Services a teamcreated to handle all types of real estate transactionsfor McDonald’s 13,000 U. S sites. Jerry Krulewich. Vice President. Litigation isultimately responsible for both customer andcommercial suits. Visibility for Law DepartmentManagement and Corporate ExecutivesEnables Better Management andMitigates Corporate RiskAs executive vice president command counseland secretary. Santona oversees law departmentleadership management and finance. As a memberof McDonald’s senior management aggroup she alsoregularly updates senior executive management andthe board of directors on the status of legal activitiesin command as come up as any material legal developments. Her ultimate responsibility is to define and mitigatelegal risks to McDonald’s Corporation. Management reports are necessary to facilitateSantona’s leadership and management role andTeamConnect was designed to assist in that process. McDonald’s can run reports based on any numberof data points. This affords Santona and the entirelegal team a exceed analytical understanding ofthe entire legal department’s operations enablingthem to act more accurate budgets and moreLegal department business including executionof be management initiatives is conductedby Megan Willis. Manager of Legal Administration. Michael Stetzer the legal department’s IT liaison isresponsible for planning and helping to implementany legal department technology programs. For example certain types of contracts have a lot incommon. Technology agreements for dilate areusually standard consulting agreements and workorders with only a few variables. Creating thesetypes of standard agreements with TeamConnect’sdocument assembly drive ensures that agreementsmeant to be similar remain standard and enablesthem to be created more efficiently saving measure andmoney. Once contracts are completed. TeamConnectpromotes compliance by advising key team membersof agreement deadlines. Interdepartmental Collaboration Leadsto exceed DecisionsMuch of McDonald’s operational energy goesinto the management of its 13,000-plus real estatesites. This means the affiliate must track all typesof information about each and every place includinglease payee and tax information. While only someof this tracking is done by the legal department,the updated information is necessary for the lawdepartment to perform. Up-to-date information andteamwork with other departments are essential forthe effective legal management of all sites. Yet thereal estate department utilizes a mainframe-basedlegacy system to bring in information. Efficient assign of information fromlegacy systems still in use. Data from legacy systems is morevaluable with increased reportingcapabilities. Patterns and trends can be analyzed tolimit overall risk. Collaboration among members ofvarious departments allows wiserdecision-making. BENEFITS: INTERDEPARTMENTALCOLLABORATIONwhen an attorney works with a landlord on a leaseissue he or she can see the entire history with thatlandlord such as documents and notes from anotherattorney regarding a recent change in ownership. Shared Services allows for exceed information,more collaboration and ultimately improveddecision-making. Mitratech built an import module from themainframe-based system into TeamConnect thatallows all real estate data including notice memosentered by Arbet’s team to continue to be entered onthe mainframe. Each night all new data is exportedfrom IMS and imported into TeamConnect so thelegal aggroup can take full advantage of its tracking,collaboration and notification ability. This simple yet elegant solution allows the legal teamfull and current access to all types of information,without the inefficient re-keying of data. McDonald’slegal department enjoys beat transparency into thesituation at all real estate sites and provides theframework for the kind of collaboration.

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Deloitte & Touche has agreed to pay $167.5 million to settle a inspect with a believe that was formed after Adelphia Communications Corp collapsed in 2002. The news comes just as former Adelphia CFO Timothy Rigas and his create. Adelphia fail John Rigas. . The Adelphia Recovery believe announced the settlement agreement late on Friday claiming that it is "among the largest settlements ever reached between a public accounting firm and its analyse client." The trust's allegations against Adelphia's former lenders and others accused of taking move in financial fraud be unsettled advertisement According to the believe. Deloitte will put the money into an interest-bearing escrow account. The settlement awaits approval by U. S. Bankruptcy adjudicate Robert Gerber. A Deloitte spokesman confirmed to CFO com that the accounting tighten has settled the case but believes it would undergo prevailed had the case continued. "As part of the settlement. Deloitte & Touche denies any wrongdoing," the tighten said in a prepared statement adding that Deloitte "believes.. that it was in the best interests of the tighten and its clients to lay this action rather than to act to approach the charge depreciate and uncertainty of advance litigation." Deloitte served as Adelphi's audit firm from the mid-1980s to May 14. 2002 when Deloitte suspended its bring home the bacon on the analyse for the year ended December 31. 2001 saying Adelphia's books and records had been falsified. The Rigases were convicted in 2004 on several counts including securities fraud tip fraud and conspiracy to act bank fraud at what had been the fifth-largest cable affiliate before its change. Prosecutors claimed that the two executives hid nearly $2.3 billion in Adelphia debt from stockholders to mask the affiliate's unhealthy financial status. Starting Monday. Timothy Rigas will serve 20 years in prison and his create will answer 15. In an converse with USA Today published over the pass. 82-year-old John Rigas said fraud did not become at Adelphia. He went on to say the government's inspect against him was based on the business environment at the measure amid other corporate scandals like Enron. WorldCom and Tyco. "It was a case of being in the wrong displace at the do by time," Rigas said. "If this had happened a year before there wouldn't undergo been any headlines." More than two years ago which claimed the accounting firm had "failed to detect a massive fraud perpetrated by Adelphia and certain members of the Rigas family" in its fiscal 2000 analyse. Deloitte paid $50 million to lay the case.

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A federal act has given preliminary approval for one of Puerto Rico's largest financial institutions to lay a class-action lawsuit alleging it had improperly accounted for mortgage loans. First BanCorp a bank holding affiliate based in San Juan. Puerto Rico plans to pay off the $74.25 million settlement in two installments. The U. S. govern act in Puerto Rico issued its preliminary request to approve the settlement agreement between the affiliate and its shareholders last week. First BanCorp will put $61 million in a settlement fund within a couple of weeks and pay off the rest of the settlement by the end of the year. The court is scheduled to give its final approval of the agreement on October 15 advertisement First BanCorp set aside the $74 million in 2005 in anticipation of a possible settlement. That year various shareholders who owned the company's common have between walk 31. 2003 and October 24. 2005 filed a complaint against the tighten alleging that misleading financial statements and press releases about the status of its mortgage loans presented an untrue picture of the company's operations. In August 2005 inquiry into its accounting for mortgage loans purchased from two financial institutions between 2000 and 2004. It also disclosed that its audit committee was investigating the matter. The analyse concentrated on whether First BanCorp should have recorded the transactions as loans rather than purchases under SFAS No. 140. Soon after the company's troubled image continued when CEO Angel Alvarez Perez and CFO Annie Astor Carbonell resigned and the SEC upped its investigation to a formal review. measure year. First BanCorp restated five years' worth of financials from 2000 to 2004 by reclassifying how it had treated mortgage-related transactions and arouse rate swaps. The restatement decreased the affiliate's earnings and legal surplus by approximately $17.1 million. First BanCorp believes the settlement with shareholders will not alter its earnings. It expects to recover approximately $14.75 million from insurance companies and former executives; however those agreement discussions are ongoing the company said. In addition the company considers the court's preliminary order of a settlement a "study milestone," according to CEO Luis Beauchamp. The company is now "that much closer to eliminating the potential risk of a desire expensive and protracted litigation with the financial risks associated with litigation," he said.

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