The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that mandates certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations. The act,,also known as the "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" and "Corporate and Auditing Accountability,Responsibility,and Transparency Act" and more commonly called Sarbanes–Oxley,SOX or Sarbox,contains eleven sections that place requirements on all U.S. public company boards of directors and management and public accounting firms. A number of provisions of the Act also apply to privately held companies,such as the willful destruction of evidence to impede a federal investigation.
Jeffrey Keith Skilling is an American businessman and convicted felon who was the CEO of Enron Corporation during the Enron scandal. In 2006,he was convicted of federal felony charges relating to Enron's collapse and eventually sentenced to 24 years in prison. The US Supreme Court heard arguments in the appeal of the case March 1,2010. On June 24,2010,the Supreme Court vacated part of Skilling's conviction and transferred the case back to the lower court for resentencing.
The Hatch Act of 1939,An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities,is a United States federal law. Its main provision prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government,except the president and vice president,from engaging in some forms of political activity. It became law on August 2,1939. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico. It was most recently amended in 2012.
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a former contract translator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent news website NewsBud.
Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 American documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind,who are credited as writers of the film alongside the director,Alex Gibney. It examines the 2001 collapse of the Enron Corporation,which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company's top executives during the ensuing Enron scandal,and contains a section about the involvement of Enron traders in the 2000-01 California electricity crisis. Archival footage is used alongside new interviews with McLean and Elkind,several former Enron executives and employees,stock analysts,reporters,and former Governor of California Gray Davis.
The State Bar of California is California's official attorney licensing agency. It is responsible for managing the admission of lawyers to the practice of law,investigating complaints of professional misconduct,prescribing appropriate discipline,accepting attorney-member fees,and financially distributing sums paid through attorney trust accounts to fund nonprofit legal entities. It is directly responsible to the Supreme Court of California;however,its Trustees are now appointed by the Supreme Court,the California Legislature,and Governor of California. All attorney admissions are issued as recommendations of the State Bar,which are then routinely ratified by the Supreme Court. Attorney discipline is handled by the State Bar Office of Chief Trial Counsel,which acts as prosecutor before the State Bar Court of California.
Theodore Edward Rokita is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32,he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time.
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established in 1979 to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal employees against abuses by agency management.
Gary Gensler is an American government official and former Goldman Sachs investment banker serving as the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gensler previously led the Biden–Harris transition's Federal Reserve,Banking,and Securities Regulators agency review team. Prior to his appointment,he was professor of Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Raymond Kwok-Cheung Chow,nicknamed "Shrimp Boy",is a Hong Kong-born felon with ties to a San Francisco Chinatown street gang and an organized crime syndicate,including the American branch of the Hong Kong-based triad Wo Hop To and the Hop Sing Boys.
Dianne Wilkerson is a former Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate,representing the 2nd Suffolk District from 1993 to 2008.
Joseph Dee Morrissey is an American Democratic politician,businessman,and former lawyer who won election to both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly from districts including Richmond or surrounding Henrico County,Virginia. He currently represents Virginia's 16th Senate district,having been elected during the 2019 election. He represents much of southern Richmond,as well as all of the cities of Petersburg and Hopewell and portions of Chesterfield,Dinwiddie and Prince George counties. He lost the 2023 Democratic primary for his district.
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Texas Senate representing the eighth district and a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Dr. David Paul Weber is an American criminalist,and the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He is the Principal Investigator of a $2.6 million grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,to test various white collar crime interventions concerning elder financial exploitation and high-tech crime. He is a Professor of the Practice in Fraud and Forensic Accounting at the Perdue School of Business,Salisbury University. In the past,Dr. Weber was a whistleblower who reported allegations about foreign espionage against the stock exchanges,and misconduct in the Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme investigations. In June 2013,the SEC settled with Weber his whistleblower protection and U.S. District Court lawsuits,paying him one of the largest federal employee whistleblower settlements ever. In 2014,In Bed with Wall Street author Larry Doyle named Dr. Weber as one of his "top 5 whistleblowers". On July 30,2015,Weber was recognized by six United States Senators and one member of the House of Representatives at the First Congressional Celebration of National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. On August 5,2021,Dr. Weber met with the President,Speaker of the House,and Senators at the signing of H.R. 3325,the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal for those officers who lost their lives at the Capitol Insurrection,as he represents one of the deceased police officers and his widow. Ultimately,he was successful in having his client Police Officer Jeffrey L. Smith designated as having died in the line of duty by the District of Columbia in March 2022,and in August 2023 by the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Weber is now a forensic accounting professor at the Perdue School,Salisbury University. As part of his teaching duties,he is a special investigator for the Maryland State's Attorneys Offices in two adjoining counties,and a Virginia financial crimes state prosecutor in the neighboring Virginia county. He supervises his students who act as intern investigators on financial crime cases.
Everett Alexander Stern is an American businessman,whistleblower,and political candidate who is the intelligence director of Tactical Rabbit,Inc. He exposed an HSBC money laundering scandal,where he uncovered illegal money laundering transactions. Having formerly attempted to run for office as a member of the Republican Party,he ran as an independent write-in candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania,but dropped out in late October.
Michael Kevin Atkinson is an American attorney. He worked for the United States Department of Justice for approximately 15 years,before becoming the second Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. He assumed office on May 17,2018.
Frances Haugen is an American product manager,data engineer and scientist,and whistleblower. She disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Ashley Gjøvik is an American program manager and activist who is known for her whistleblowing and labor complaints against Apple Inc. After she raised issues with the alleged mishandling of environmental concerns,employee privacy,harassment,and discrimination at Apple in 2021,she was terminated by the company for allegedly leaking confidential intellectual property,which Gjøvik denies,alleging her firing was retaliation for speaking out against the company.
Ana Isabel de Alba is an American attorney who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California from 2022 to 2023.
