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Folks, I've been looking for a job for weeks without success. While searching on Dice.com, I found an ad targeting anyone with an H1 visa to transfer! Whoever says workers on visas don't take jobs from Americans is smoking crack. Foreign workers send money "home" thereby taking money out of the US economy. They take both old and new jobs away from Citizens. This might be fine during times of economic boom, but it's a shame during times like now. Call and write your representatives in Congress asking them to, on an emergency basis, deny ALL H1 and L1 visas...

Friday March 28, 5:23 PM Backlash against Indian IT professionals on upswing By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service ADVERTISEMENT Bangalore, Mar 28 (IANS) The backlash against Indian information technology (IT) professionals working abroad is on the upswing, industry officials aver, pointing to the action by Dutch authorities against an Indian software developer. "This is clearly a backlash against the Indians. The Indians have come under the spotlight after growing unemployment and the downturn of economies in Europe now," contended the CEO of a software company. Senthil Kumar, CEO of i-Flex's Dutch subsidiary, was detained in London on Holland's request...

Election.com Sold To Group Tied To Saudi Nationals By Mark Harrington Staff Writer February 27, 2003 Election.com, a struggling Garden City start-up scheduled to provide online absentee ballots for U.S. military personnel in the 2004 federal election, has quietly sold controlling power to an investment group with ties to unnamed Saudi nationals, according to company correspondence. In a letter sent to a select group of well-heeled Election.com investors Jan. 21, the online voting and voter registration company disclosed that the investment group Osan Ltd. paid $1.2 million to acquire 20 million preferred shares to control 51.6 percent of the voting...

<p>Oddly enough, Silicon Valley has been a laggard when it comes to applying the technology it's famous for to the election process. Now it's finally beginning to catch up, and it has suddenly become the locus of an overdue -- and profoundly important -- debate about the mechanics of democracy in the 21st century.</p>

<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The state's accounting board filed a notice Thursday to revoke Arthur Andersen LLP's accounting license in Texas because of its role in Enron Corp.'s collapse, the board's executive director said.</p> <p>The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy also is asking for at least $1 million in fines and penalties.</p>

We ask who should win a controversial cybersquatting suit: the multinational car company or the small-town computer shop, Friday 5/3 at 7 p.m. Eastern on 'The Screen Savers.' By Dave Roos May 3, 2002 Web addresses are awkward enough as it is. First of all, there's the bizarre "http://" business, which is as forgettable as an international telephone number. Throw in the "www" and a whole slew of suffixes -- .com, .net, .org, .gov, .us, .ca, .info, .biz, with more on the way -- and you've got a recipe for total confusion. That's why we rely so heavily on simple...

Investigators busted an elaborate shell game played with stock certificates and dummy corporations that ripped off computer companies to the tune of $2 million over the last 18 months. The 140-count indictment against 16 members of a "sophisticated" ring of accountants, computer operators and others was the first of its kind, District Attorney Richard Brown said yesterday. "What set this criminal enterprise apart was its sophistication and corporate savvy," Brown said. At the heart of the scam were dummy companies that the perpetrators created with great detail, investigators said. In one deal outlined by Brown, the group got the name...

Jane Sims always knew her husband was a valuable employee to Wal-Mart. She just didn't know how valuable. Sims discovered recently that Wal-Mart, the company her husband, Douglas, worked for before he died, had taken out a life insurance policy in his name. When Douglas Sims died in 1998 of a sudden heart attack, Wal-Mart received about $64,000. She got nothing from that policy. "I never dreamed that they could profit from my husband's death," said Sims, whose husband worked in receiving at Wal-Mart's distribution center in Plainview for 11 years. Companies routinely take out secret life insurance policies...

<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A defense contractor has been charged with delivering spare parts without critical heat treatment, to save money. The omission could have caused plane crashes and weapon breakdowns, prosecutors said Thursday.</p> <p>Parts supplied by Damon Industries Inc. that lacked the special hardening treatment were for F-18 and F-15 fighter jets, C-135 cargo planes, Cobra helicopters, Bradley armored personnel carriers, howitzers, mortars and .50-caliber machines guns, rifles and Navy ships, prosecutors said.</p>

MADRID, Spain - Spain's top investigating magistrate took over on Tuesday an investigation of secret offshore accounts once held by the country's second largest bank, raising the prospect of criminal charges. Judge Baltasar Garzon asked Spain's central bank to suspend its administrative investigation, in which the only penalties possible were fines, as he shifted the case to the judicial realm at the request of anti-corruption prosecutors. In a 10-page writ, Garzon said he said there was evidence of misappropriation and fraud by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria in a network of off-the-books accounts that existed for more than a decade and...

'Tree-free' letters are really wood The man who had the paper tested threatens to sue the Rainforest Action Network for false advertising By Don Thompson ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO - An environmental group's fund-raising letters to save the rain forests that claimed to be written on "tree-free paper" actually used unrecycled wood, according to two scientific analyses. John Campbell, a conservative Los Angeles fund-raiser, said he spent about $100 on a whim for an initial test after noticing San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network said its materials were "printed on 100 percent tree-free paper." The solicitations also asked donors to give more...

Fifth Third Bank, Chicago, Launches Major Initiative in Hispanic Communities April 2, 2002 New Account Opening Procedures and Spanish Advertising Campaign Key Elements of Program Fifth Third Bank, Chicago, has launched a series of programs tailored to better serve the unique needs of the Chicago-area Hispanic community, including new account opening procedures and a Spanish language advertising campaign. "Fifth Third's acquisition of Old Kent Bank gave us the unique opportunity to serve Chicagoland's growing Hispanic community, and we're eager to put the resources and convenience of Fifth Third to work there," offers Bradlee F. Stamper, President & CEO, Fifth Third...

April 7, 2002 Tell the Good News. Then Cash In. By DAVID LEONHARDT he profits were an illusion. The multimillion-dollar rewards for executives were real. Over the last few years, executives at some companies released inaccurate earnings statements and, before correcting them, sold large amounts of stock at inflated prices. At others, executives insisted for months that the recent recession would not much affect their businesses. By the time they acknowledged their error, some had sold millions of shares at prices that were just a memory. It happened at major technology companies like Oracle and Sun Microsystems (news/quote). It...

Court Victory for Unsolicited Fax Advertising April 01, 2002 By: Scott Hovanyetz Senior Reporter scotth@dmnews.com The government's ban on unsolicited fax advertising is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit by the state of Missouri against a company accused of issuing "junk faxes," the American Teleservices Association said last week. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, located in St. Louis, ruled against the Missouri Attorney General's office in its suit against American Blast Fax, a Texas firm that has been the subject of much litigation concerning its fax advertising activities. In June 2000, Missouri accused...

<p>So many federal agencies have been exposed falsifying environmental data that you have to wonder how many other frauds remain undetected. First came the December revelation that employees of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service had planted fake wild lynx hair in states where there were no lynx, so that the areas could be labeled critical habitat, and thus off limits to human use.</p>

EarthLink co-founder admits bilking millions from investors He will plead guilty in a Ponzi scheme By Matt Krasnowski COPLEY NEWS SERVICE March 27, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The co-founder of EarthLink, one of the nation's largest Internet providers, agreed yesterday to plead guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that involved $593 million and 800 investors, including celebrities. Reed Slatkin acknowledged in court documents that he was responsible for $254 million in losses and agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice charges. Prosecutors said there is no agreement about Slatkin's possible prison time,...

Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino resigns 03/26/2002 Associated Press CHICAGO - Arthur Andersen LLP chief executive Joseph Berardino resigned Tuesday, bowing to mounting pressure as a result of the company's role in the Enron scandal. His announcement came four days after former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker urged top management to step aside so he can install and head an independent board in a last-ditch plan to save the company. The key element of Volcker's plan is the dismissal of a federal indictment against Andersen alleging obstruction of justice in destroying Enron-related documents. The Justice Department has not said...

Arthur Andersen indicted for obstruction of justice in Enron scandal NOTHING FOLLOWS YET

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who has made workplace safety a priority, said Tuesday that serious safety problems at the Philadelphia mint are being corrected with the goal of making the facility quot;a benchmark of federal manufacturing.quot; An inspection last year by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found 47 serious health and safety violations at the Philadelphia facility, ranging from precariously stacked coin containers to dangerous fire-escape routes. O'Neill, the former head of aluminum giant Alcoa, has said there is no better way of sending a message to workers...

CLOSING COMMENTS "ADDRESSING THE JURY - THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" Ladies and Gentlemen: My name is Sherry Peel Jackson. I became a Certified Public Accountant in 1987, I was an Internal Revenue Agent in the Atlanta District for 7 years, and I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 2001. I am here to summarize the tales of ignorance and deception that you have heard over the last two days and I am here to inform you of the state of the nation so that you may choose your next course of action. You have heard the truth of how the Internal ...