After one lawyer suggested that a ruling of his was not adequately supported, he responded by footnoting every word in the first paragraph of a later decision, including "a," "the" and "two" ("the cardinal number between one and three in the Arabic number system probably derived from Old English," according to Footnote 4).
According to the footnotes in the SEC's report, in the year to September 30th the commission collected $1.6 billion, of which only $302m went back to harmed investors.Of the rest, $207m was sent to the Treasury and $1.1 billion is being held for future distribution, bringing the total that has yet to be paid out to roughly $2 billion.
According to the footnote, CIA interrogators determined that, after 82 waterboarding sessions, Abu Zubaydah was "compliant".
Still, that 12 percent underestimates the power that Mr. Williams has held, according to the footnote about the proxy agreements.
President Obama withheld even more from Senate viewing: 9,400 pages of relevant CIA documentation, according to a footnote.
According to a footnote in the report, however, Enron did not consistently obtain such opinions before entering into the transactions.
Yet Mr. Freeh, according to a footnote on the last line of the 124-page report, agreed to postpone the lawsuit, "pending the completion of the mediation".
Instead, according to a footnote to the affidavit of Stephen Gallo, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over about three months Mr. Rafiq lived la vida loca.
Cisco reported $2.1 billion in net income in 1999, but accounting for options would have erased $500 million of that, according to a footnote in the annual report.
And for now, Mr. Freeh has agreed to postpone a lawsuit "pending the outcome of the mediation," according to a footnote on the last line of the 124 page report.
