The loss of its chairman and chief executive over alleged expense fiddling and sexual harassment will hurt, especially given all of the good he did for the technology company.
Bennett is allied with such conservative critics of education as University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom, author of the best-selling book, "The Closing of the American Mind," which bemoans the rise of television and rock culture at the alleged expense of the classics and solid values.
Most of the cuttings I read ahead of the interview concerned his salary, expenses, alleged taste for the high life.
'Obviously,' said the court, in commenting upon that case, 'there was no taking of the plaintiff's lands, but simply an injury which could be remedied at an expense, as alleged, of $10,000, and the action was one to recover the amount of this consequential injury.
The prostitute's salary was categorized as part of the company's "Morale Welfare Recreation" expenses, they alleged.
It is alleged that she claimed expenses for the furnishing and improvement of main residences between November 2004 and August 2008 through a scheme intended for the maintenance of second homes or offices.
It is alleged that Denis MacShane claimed expenses for research and translation services carried out by a company that did not carry out that work.
(Downstate, Larry Seabrook, a Bronx councilman, is alleged to have tried to expense a hundred and seventy-seven dollars for a deli lunch — a bagel and a diet soda — and is now known, even as he contests charges against him, as Bagel Larry).
While no clear wrongdoing within the flawed and previously clandestine MPs' expenses system was alleged in Mrs Spelman's case… my work raised questions about whether MPs were really making claims, or choosing lifestyles, in line with the Green Book rules.
"Alexander's customers claim a bogus deduction on their tax returns for the purported contributions to a sham pension plan, pay neither income taxes nor employment taxes, but still retail the use of these funds in order to cover their living expenses," the complaint alleged.
Jackie Hosang Lawson, who served as a senior finance director at Fidelity Brokerage Services, alleged the company overstated its expenses by $100 million, thereby padding fees that were charged to investors.
