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Sarbanes-Oxley Daily News

• Ex-UnitedHealth CEO gives back $600m (Financial Times)
  Dr William McGuire, former chief executive of insurer UnitedHealth Group , will pay back more than $600m in compensation in the first individual ?clawback? settlement under the Sarbanes-Oxley anti-fraud law.



• Hotlines Can Help Govt. Agencies Control Misconduct (Enterprise Security Today)
  Illegal and unethical behavior -- fraud, theft, discrimination, bribes, kickbacks -- can do significant damage to the reputations and bottom lines of any business in any industry. A renewed interest in corporate governance, sparked by legislative mandates like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, has spread beyond publicly traded corporations. Even those that are not statutorily required to comply are ...



• Here Comes Carbox (Forbes)
  The combination of carbon footprints and Sarbanes-Oxley has corporate America running scared--creating a boom for consultants.



• Senators Praise Sarbanes-Oxley Extension for Small Firms (Enterprise Security Today)
  After over a year of urging from Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to provide small businesses with an additional one-year extension to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404(b) auditor attestation requirements. Last year, Kerry and Snowe held a hearing focusing on the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations ...