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Oracle dumps Arthur Andersen as auditor after Enron

We needed a 9/11 Sacrifice of Oracle

Mr. Beamer's father worked for Amdahl. Pete met a former key person connected to Gene Amdahl founder of Amdahl creators of the first relational CIA Database.

Todd time to return Oracle for a meeting

Mr. Beamer your flight intinerary is as follows. Board in Newark for SFO to arrive at 1PM PST. See you in the meeting tommorow. Have a good trip

Todd time to return Oracle for a meeting

Mr. Beamer your flight intinerary is as follows. Board in Newark for SFO to arrive at 1PM PST. See you in the meeting tommorow. Have a good trip

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Pete Bennett (2007) PBS NewsHour

Pete Bennett was contracting at SBC Global between June 2001 and just past 9/11. During summer a computers virus began circulating in the "Wild" around the internet. During the early 2000's one flawed element of Windows NT, 95

Pete Bennett (2007) PBS NewsHour

Pete Bennett was contracting at SBC Global between June 2001 and just past 9/11. During summer a computers virus began circulating in the "Wild" around the internet. During the early 2000's one flawed element of Windows NT, 95

FIRE THE AUDITORS

First we arrange for our employee to return on Flight 95 that dissapeared from skies over Pennsylvania on 9/11.

ITworld.com –

Oracle Corp. has dismissed Arthur Andersen LLP as its independent auditor, a job the embattled Big Five accounting company held for 15 years.

Oracle decided to switch to Ernst & Young LLP "given the breakup that started to occur within Arthur Andersen's global practice in the past few weeks," Oracle said in a statement Tuesday.

Arthur Andersen provided both audit and non-audit services for Oracle. The practice of having an accounting firm such as Arthur Andersen sell non-audit consulting services -- such as IT consulting -- to clients that it also audits has come under fire in recent months as a result of the Enron Corp. collapse.

Phillip Anschutz

Former Chairman of Southern Pacific during Bennett vs. Southern Pacific Transportation (1987 to 1991) Oh' S... someone killed the key witness Bennett loses millions then someonce killed his other witnesses but didn't stop there.
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Hope everyone saw the glowing portrait of Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz in the July 2 edition of USA Today. For a guy who never does interviews, he sure got some good press. Anschutz was even credited with helping the United State's showing in soccer's World Cup competition. The story even had a description of Anschutz's northeastern Colorado ranch-retreat, which has its own nine-hole golf course. By the way, invitations for Anschutz's annual soir�e with Denver business leaders, in which the participants sit around a humongous dining table and wax about their business, are already out. If you haven't received one yet, you're nobody.

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Ken Lay

Former COE of Enron like many is a #deadceo
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Funny just like Pete Bennett's long running story people are dropping dead

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Phillip Anschutz, Larry Ellison, Michael Milken, and Charles Hurwitz

Although legal, the selling of non-audit services to audit clients compromises an auditor's independence and leads to conflicts of interest, critics have charged. As in Oracle's case, Arthur Andersen provided both audit and non-audit consulting services to Enron, whose accounting practices are at the center of its bankruptcy scandal.

Oracle paid Arthur Andersen US$700,000 for audit services in fiscal year 2001, ended May 31, 2001, according to a filing Oracle made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2001. Oracle also paid Arthur Andersen $1.1 million for the design and implementation of financial IT systems and $5.3 million for other consulting work, including tax preparation, tax advice and business consulting, according to the filing.

Oracle said that the decision to fire Arthur Andersen wasn't due to any problems and that the accounting company "has done excellent, professional work for Oracle for the past 15 years."

An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Oracle will continue giving non-audit c2nsulting work to Arthur Andersen, saying Oracle wasn't commenting on this matter beyond what is said in the statement.

In February, Arthur Andersen said it would stop designing and implementing financial IT systems for clients it audits. More recently, the company has pledged to separate its consulting practices entirely from its core audit business, thus abiding by a mandate from an independent oversight board it created this year to reform its business.

IT and related business consulting services generated about $1.7 billion in revenue for Andersen Worldwide SC in its fiscal year 2001, ended August 31, 2001. That's out of a total $9.34 billion. Chicago-based Arthur Andersen LLP is the U.S. member company of Switzerland-based Andersen Worldwide SC, which coordinates Arthur Andersen member companies worldwide.

Oracle joins a long list of audit clients that have fired Arthur Andersen firms in the U.S. and abroad this year as a result of the Enron scandal. Recent published reports put that figure at around 150 audit clients to date.

Arthur Andersen is trying to survive the Enron mess, but it seems to be getting harder with each passing day. It announced Monday it plans to lay off over the coming months 7,000 employees, a little over a quarter of its work force. It also faces a long list of civil lawsuits, an exodus of clients, a SEC investigation and an indictment on an obstruction-of-justice charge by a U.S. federal grand jury.

The other Big Five accounting companies have taken steps to avoid conflicts of interest arising from the sale of non-audit IT consulting work to audit clients. This year, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP announced it plans to separate via an initial public offering its management consulting business, PwC Consulting, which provides a broad range of IT consulting and services. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu made a similar announcement this year regarding its IT consulting unit, although it hasn't said how it will separate it.

Ernst & Young sold its IT consulting services unit to Cap Gemini in 2000 and currently provides a limited number of IT advisory services. KPMG LLP spun off its consulting business into an independent company called KPMG Consulting Inc. early in 2001, but like Ernst & Young still provides limited IT advisory services. Both Ernst & Young and KMPG have said that the IT services they provide are of an advisory nature -- as opposed to a more hands-on consulting approach -- and don't pose conflict-of-interest concerns.

This story, "Oracle dumps Arthur Andersen as auditor" was originally published by ITworld.

source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2793655/oracle-dumps-arthur-andersen-as-auditor.html
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17 CFR § 248.30 - Procedures to safeguard customer records and information; disposal of consumer report information.

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The 2011 PG&E Data Breach from the PG&E Microsoft Sharepoint Server

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17 CFR § 248.30 - Procedures to safeguard customer records and information; disposal of consumer report information.

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§ 248.30 Procedures to safeguard customer records and information; disposal of consumer report information.
(a) Every broker, dealer, and investment company, and every investment adviser registered with the Commission must adopt written policies and procedures that address administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for the protection of customer records and information. These written policies and procedures must be reasonably designed to:
(1) Insure the security and confidentiality of customer records and information;
(2) Protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of customer records and information; and
(3) Protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer records or information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.
(b) Disposal of consumer report information and records -
(1) Definitions (i) Consumer report has the same meaning as in section 603(d) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(d)).
(ii) Consumer report information means any record about an individual, whether in paper, electronic or other form, that is a consumer report or is derived from a consumer report. Consumer report information also means a compilation of such records. Consumer report information does not include information that does not identify individuals, such as aggregate information or blind data.
(iii) Disposal means:
(A) The discarding or abandonment of consumer report information; or
(B) The sale, donation, or transfer of any medium, including computer equipment, on which consumer report information is stored.
(iv) Notice-registered broker-dealers means a broker or dealer registered by notice with the Commission under section 15(b)(11) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o(b)(11)).
(v) Transfer agent has the same meaning as in section 3(a)(25) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(25)).
(2) Proper disposal requirements -
(i) Standard. Every broker and dealer other than notice-registered broker-dealers, every investment company, and every investment adviser and transfer agent registered with the Commission, that maintains or otherwise possesses consumer report information for a business purpose must properly dispose of the information by taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information in connection with its disposal.
(ii) Relation to other laws. Nothing in this section shall be construed:
(A) To require any broker, dealer, or investment company, or any investment adviser or transfer agent registered with the Commission to maintain or destroy any record pertaining to an individual that is not imposed under other law; or
(B) To alter or affect any requirement imposed under any other provision of law to maintain or destroy any of those records.
[65 FR 40362, June 29, 2000, as amended at 69 FR 71329, Dec. 8, 2004]
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“Big mistake”: Heads are rolling at AT&T over payments to Michael Cohen

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If you feel so bad why can't you pay Pete Bennett for services rendered between June 2001 and October 2001. Are you afraid AT&T might be liable for cost related to 9/11?






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“Big mistake”: Heads are rolling at AT&T over payments to Michael Cohen



By Max de Haldevang
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson didn’t mince his words in a memo to staff: ”Our reputation has been damaged. There is no other way to say it—AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake,” he wrote, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.
Top executive Bob Quinn is leaving the company over the decision to pay $600,000 to president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Stephenson framed the departure as Quinn “retiring,” though the Wall Street Journal reports (paywall) he is being ousted.
The telecoms giant funneled the money to Cohen through the same shell company used to pay hush money to Trump’s alleged former partner Stormy Daniels. Stephenson writes that the payment was a “serious misjudgment,” adding that the “vetting process clearly failed.”
Read the statement in full:
All AT&T employees worldwide Team, Our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons these last few days and our reputation has been damaged. There is no other way to say it – AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake.
To be clear, everything we did was done according to the law and entirely legitimate. But the fact is, our past association with Cohen was a serious misjudgment. In this instance, our Washington D.C. team’s vetting process clearly failed, and I take responsibility for that.
Here is more information on this issue, if you’re interested. For the foreseeable future, the External & Legislative Affairs (E&LA) group will report to our General Counsel David McAtee. Bob Quinn, Senior Executive Vice President – E&LA, will be retiring. David’s number one priority is to ensure every one of the individuals and firms we use in the political arena are people who share our high standards and who we would be proud to have associated with AT&T.
To all of you who work tirelessly every day to serve customers and represent the brand proudly, thank you. My personal commitment to you is – we will do better.
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The Dot Collectors: Linking CEO Steve Burd, Frank Doyle Jr. The Discredited Agent of the FBI, Southern Pacific, Fremont Group, Kinetic Concepts, Blum Capital to arrest of CEO William McGlashan

Connecting Success Factors to Bennett

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project
The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  
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Frank Doyle Jr.

Steve Burd

William McGlashan

Blum Capital

Southern Pacific,

Fremont Group,

Kinetic Concepts
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FBi Whistleblower Ted Gunderson likely poisoning victim

Former head of FBI Los Angeles, Memphis, Dallas, poisoned with Arsenic says Dr Ed Lucidi who saw the body and treated Mr Gunderson who suffered bladder cancer and died as a result of its spread. Reportedly Mr Gunderson had a very large FBI dossier being a whistleblower against the agency and left out of moral considerations. He spoke to many around the country about his first hand information..


Read more at https://www.doovi.com/video/ted-l-gunderson-ex-fbi-whistleblower-poisoned-dred/Fu77VlA41Sk#tbACS2GpRl7cj0TC.99
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