In fact, according to the grand jury report, detectives say they overheard Sandusky tell the mother of Victim No. 6, "I wish I were dead," after she confronted him about improperly hugging her son in the showers.
In 2002, the chief executive of TV Guide's parent company was found to have improperly accounted for about $120 million in revenue, and the News Corporation had to take a write-down of almost $6 billion on its investment in that company in 2002.
Regulators continue to investigate how MF Global improperly transferred about $1 billion in customer money to pay its own bills.
Mr. Black's downfall began in November 2003 when the board found that he and other executives had improperly taken about $32 million in payments.
In an interview in his Anchorage office on Friday, Mr. French acknowledged that he had improperly speculated about possible outcomes of the case and expressed regret.
But several lawyers and former prosecutors said that the defense's strategy suggested confidence that the government had failed to prove that the two brothers intentionally and improperly deducted about $1.2 million of Albert Pirro's personal expenses as business expenditures.
In a filing with securities regulators on Aug. 14, AOL Time Warner disclosed that it might have improperly reported about $49 million in advertising and commerce revenue from three transactions in the last six quarters, but it did not identify the transactions.
A federal appeals court reinstated a shareholder suit that claims Oracle, the world's third-largest software maker, improperly booked about $228 million in sales in 2000 to conceal slowing demand.
The judge concluded that other workers had been threatened and improperly interrogated about their union activities, that the company had warned of layoffs and a possible plant closing if the unionization campaign succeeded and that one pro-union employee had been assaulted in retaliation for his organizing efforts.
