"A politician having dinner, having a discussion and making a misstatement, that doesn't offend me," said Mr. Doria, a Corzine supporter.
In court, a few days later, Steven D. Goldby, chief executive of Symyx Technologies and a PeopleSoft director, testified that one of the reasons Mr. Conway got the boot was that he made a misstatement to analysts at a meeting on Sept. 4, 2003.
During the last Presidential campaign, she told Chris Matthews, on MSNBC, that Barack Obama held "anti-American views" and then admitted, "I made a misstatement".
"I made a misstatement and I apologized," she said.
A chief executive who makes a material misstatement that causes a 50-cent drop in his company's billion-share float now faces 11 years in jail.
"If you wrote a disclaimer that basically says we're not liable for fraud or making a misstatement in connection with this opinion that we're putting out, that would be ineffective as a matter of law," said Michael A. Perino, who teaches securities law at St . Johns University in New York.
"It seems likely that every appearance, Jon Corzine will make a misstatement or misstep, and our campaign finds it important to document these and point them out to the voters," Mr. Smith said.
So in the next two debates Obama can't just defensively say that x isn't true every time Romney makes a misstatement.
Whether she was aware of the corrected record was unclear, but Mrs. Clinton said yesterday that the incident "just goes to show how any of us can make a misstatement".
These are largely securities fraud cases where the directors or officers make a misstatement or omission.
