He held the Centro directors and officers responsible for misstatements and omissions of material information.
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These were not misstatements or Freudian slips on the part of the Defense Secretary.
Misstatements are made frequently, not only by celebrities, but by captains of industry and leaders of firms.
The stock of a Japanese company had fallen and the lawyer wanted to sue over company misstatements.
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Those misstatements were allegedly covered-up via forged documents that helped to further the frauds for the benefit of insiders.
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In politics, opponents are quick to point out flaws, misstatements and broken promises.
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It requires that CEOs and CFOs certify that their financial statements are true and correct, and that there are no material misstatements.
Kaelin's testimony came after the defense questioned Vannatter about the "reckless" misstatements the detective made to obtain a search warrant for Simpson's estate.
It would be easier if auditors, as an industry, agreed it was their responsibility to detect fraud and material misstatements of the financial statements.
Mr. Bonds deserved prison because his misstatements were part of a pattern of behavior that included using performance-enhancing drugs and cheating on his wife, he said.
Even without a fundamental shift in human nature or deterrence, this may be making it more difficult for misstatements or mistakes to go undiscovered or uncorrected.
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So while this may create an illusion of better theoretical accuracy, in practice it can lead to inconsistent reporting by comparable companies and the potential for increased misstatements.
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"The colossal judgment, over 2, 500 pages in length, is plagued throughout by internal inconsistencies, misstatements of evidence and conflicting findings, " his lawyer Morris Anyah said in court papers quoted by AFP.
But each is publicly traded and, alas, distracted as a result of being public: Apple by an options-backdating mess, Dell by apparent accounting misstatements and HP by recent boardroom machinations worthy of Shakespeare.
Managers of financial assets are facing renewed pressure to behave judiciously regarding the resources they control, and report their activities accurately, facing fines, imprisonment, and civil liability for even minor violations or misstatements.
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Members of the Senate, if justice is to be done, these misstatements and mischaracterizations must not be allowed to stand and must not be allowed to influence your judgment as you look at the evidence.
But as to the misstatements to the staff that might be repeated in the grand jury or even to the public, independent counsel's referral continues to divide the charge from what the statement was about.
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As it stands, a primary function of the U.S. securities laws is to ensure that all material information about an issuer, including all investment risks, is adequately disclosed to investors free of material misstatements or omissions.
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In this important mortgage-backed securities case, attorneys for the New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund allege that misstatements and omissions regarding residential mortgage loans in offering documents relied upon by buyers of certain mortgage-backed securities resulted in material losses.
Partly, their exercise appears to be a clever attempt to deal with an issue that continues to dog the accounting profession, especially the biggest practitioners: limiting the potential liability for frauds and misstatements which they fail to detect.
Rather than spend time identifying and correcting the most common misstatements with respect to attitudes and performance, I would like to briefly review what we know and have known for a long time about the relationship between work attitudes and performance.
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Neil Glick, a Washington real estate agent who approached the embassy about honoring Peshev after traveling to the country in the 1990s and researching his story, said he had a major role in drafting the request and accepted responsibility for any misstatements in it.
Johnson also offered to fall on his sword so that other lawyers could continue with the valuable work of getting to the bottom of the falsehoods and misstatements that led to such heavy losses for investors who are, as of today, down about 13% on Facebook stock.
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In rejecting broader liability the court majority also rejected the position of lawyers for the federal government, who argued that the three units of mutual fund manager Janus Capital were so closely intertwined that they all should be subject to suit over alleged misstatements about mutual fund trading.
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Misstatements on coaches' resumes have occurred occasionally over the years, perhaps the most infamous example being when George O'Leary resigned as Notre Dame football coach five days after he was hired in 2001 when it turned out his claim of earning a master's degree in education was not true.
Yet the managers in their eagerness to find misconduct where none had found it before have searched every nook and cranny of the grand jury transcript and sent forward to you a shopping list of alleged misstatements, obviously in the hope that among them you will find one with which you disagree.
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This allegation, not included in the Starr referral, is even more curious than the previous one, because it's based on a novel legal theory, which is -- jeopardizes all lawyers in the building -- which is that a client has an enforceable obligation to correct his attorney's alleged misstatements, and if he doesn't make those corrections, he, the client, will be held liable to charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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