"I made a misstatement and I apologized," she said.
These are largely securities fraud cases where the directors or officers make a misstatement or omission.
"A politician having dinner, having a discussion and making a misstatement, that doesn't offend me," said Mr. Doria, a Corzine supporter.
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".
Asked on Friday about his retractions, during a busy day of campaigning in this Birmingham suburb, Mr. Cain said, "It is real easy on this schedule to make a misstatement, but I'm not too proud to take things back".
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".
"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.
"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.
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.
The idea of just making a misstatement doesn't necessarily rise to the level of fraud.
