California’s attorney general is investigating methods used by Hewlett Packard to oversee the activities of certain directors after a media leak.
In a bid to discover which employee had leaked “confidential” reports to the press, HP hired undercover consultants.
The firm’s counsel said HP’s methods were “not generally unlawful” but could not say if the techniques used by outside agents complied with the law
Kerri Rigsby and Cori Rigsby, two independent insurance adjusters who worked exclusively for State Farm for eight years, say they have turned over to the FBI and Mississippi investigators thousands of documents proving that the insurance company systematically cheated victims of Hurricane Katrina. In an interview with ABC News, Rigsby and Rigsby describe what they call “widespread fraud” in State Farm offices in Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi.
The adjusters say that the insurance company brought in a shredding truck to destroy documents; however, State Farm maintains that shredding documents is standard procedure to protect customers’ privacy
A former executive at US technology firm Peregrine Systems is facing extradition to the US on fraud charges.
Jeremy Crook, 53, is facing charges in the US accused of defrauding Peregrine shareholders for several years.
Mr Crook had hoped to travel to the US so as to hand himself over to American authorities
Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time.
Staff making the world’s most popular MP3 player also worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time.
Apple said the hours were “excessive” and said its supplier would now be enforcing a “normal” 60-hour week
US Federal prosecutors have raised the amount that former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling should pay for his part in one of the largest fraud scandals ever.
Prosecutors want Skilling to pay the sum demanded by the court both from him, and from his now-deceased former co-defendant, Ken Lay, Enron’s founder.
They want Skilling to hand over $183m (£96m), the combined sum the two were set to pay, not just his $139m sum
Dell, the world’s largest computer maker, is facing legal action in China over allegations of false advertising.
The group has been sued over charges its laptops contained a different, cheaper chip than those advertised.
According to state media reports at least 20 lawsuits have been filed against the Texas-based firm
Internet giant AOL has apologised for releasing the search queries of more than 650,000 of its US subscribers.
The company admitted the release to researchers was “a screw up” and had breached the privacy of its users.
AOL said it was an “innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools”
An Indian non-governmental organisation says samples of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are showing even worse levels of pesticides than in a previous study.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said their investigations revealed that the drinks contain harmful residues, posing a health risk.
A CSE report in 2003 resulted in Pepsi and Coca-Cola strenuously rejecting claims that their drinks were unsafe
Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers has lost his appeal against his conviction and 25-year prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy.
A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld the guilty verdict passed by the jury in Mr Ebbers’ original trial back in March 2005.
The convictions against Mr Ebbers relate to his part in an $11bn (£6bn) accounting fraud at the telecoms firm
Search-engine firm Google’s $90m (£48m) settlement in a “click fraud” case has been approved by a US state judge.
The legal action was initially brought by Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles in February of 2005, but was later changed to a class-action, or group, case.
Advertisers had complained that Google was falsely charging the firms for channelling clients to their websites