[Page A1.] The Senate has endorsed broad penalties for corporate officers who cheat investors or harm employee pensions that include prison terms for officers who allow their company to publish misleading financial results.
A senior aide to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said yesterday that any effort to employ broad penalties against Tehran would backfire because "Iran's current president will use them for his benefit, and he will use them to consolidate public opinion around him".
Should talks fail, she indicated, the company faces the prospect of a quick series of hearings next spring to enable her to fashion a tough and broad penalty.
The judge also indicated that if the talks failed, the company faced the prospect of a quick series of hearings next spring that would enable her to fashion a tough and broad penalty.
Interlaced with bad jokes about lawyers, the piece is part of a broader death penalty project in which Place, who works as a legal-aid criminal defence lawyer for sex offenders in Los Angeles, reproduces the last statements of inmates executed in Texas since 1982.
At his own news conference, Mr. Sensenbrenner, accompanied by Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, said he had no intention of separating the system of news alerts and highway announcements from a broader bill including penalties for child kidnapping and sexual abuse and new wiretapping authority in sexual exploitation crimes, among other provisions.
For companies inside its borders, the government uses a broad array of penalties and threats to keep content clean.
The Senate endorsed broad new criminal penalties today for corporate officers who cheat investors or harm employee pensions, highlighted by a penalty of up to 10 years in prison for executives who recklessly or willfully allow their companies to publish misleading financial statements.
There is no reasonable justification for extending criminal penalties to broader categories of classified information.
Diplomats said that meant broader financial and economic penalties against Moscow than those imposed last July and which need to be renewed by this July.
