Reader R.L. sent us the following email: I have a problem regarding misleading information on a home page, confusing labels and the use of my intellectual property rights on some products. I am German and have worked for over 25 years at the same food company in Tokyo, until the factory was sold to a…
CONCORD In more than 20 years as a representative of the banking industry in New Hampshire, Jerry Little saw some good days and bad days. One of the worst came early in his tenure as president of the New Hampshire Bankers Association, when in October of 1991 FDIC bank inspectors shut down five banks in…
Paddington dressmaker Johanna Johnson made Christina Hendricks’ dress for the Emmys. It was well received and she’s since had a surge in sales. SYDNEYs Johanna Johnson has designed dresses for stars including Pink and Meryl Streep, but she is now embroiled in a legal dispute that threatens to sink her burgeoning worldwide business. Bronte local…
The petition was issued following confidential enquiries carried out by Company Investigations, part of the Insolvency Service, under section 447 of the Companies Act 1985, as amended. The investigation found that vulnerable and elderly individuals were being targeted and aggressively sold investments in fancy coloured diamonds, rough diamonds, gold, fine art and oil wells. The…
KPMG Baltics, the administrator of the to-be-liquidated Latvijas Krajbanka in January and February 2016 recovered EUR 9.43 million, informs LETA. The administrator recovered EUR 1,359,643 in January and EUR 8,068,755 in February, according to the report of the banks financial situation. In February Latvijas Krajbanka and Ernst & Young Baltic (EY) reached a settlement…
Share Written by Staff Reporter March 18, 2016 Liquidators have been appointed to companies associated with a notorious property spruiker. ASIC announced yesterday that the Federal Court of Australia has made orders appointing liquidators to companies associated with Jamie McIntyre and 21st Century land banking companies. According to ASIC, Simon Alexander Wallace-Smith and Robert Scott…
A MEMORABILIA trader hopes a jacket worn by a rogue banker whose fraudulent deals brought down a major bank could be sold for more than £20,000. Marc McLennan, who runs Sport and Star Autographs, based at Basildons Eastgate Centre, is sounding out potential buyers for the jacket, which was once worn by Nick Leeson. The…
Flint Whistleblower: Health Impact Of DC Water 20-30 Times Worse Than Flint by David Eldridge, InsideSources The Virginia Tech professor credited with sounding the alarm about poisoned water in Flint says the District of Columbias own long-running problems with lead exposure dwarf the crisis in Michigan. One day after appearing before Congress to blast federal…
This 2011 file photo shows workers at the Petaling Jaya factory. KUALA LUMPUR: British American Tobacco (M) Bhd (BAT) will cease its manufacturing operations in the country under an operations restructuring that will see it sourcing tobacco products for the domestic market from other British American Tobacco group factories regionally. The tobacco firm – whose…
Gabrielle Upton says directors need certainty about whether their insurance can fund their costs to defend a claim. Wolter Peeters by Marianna Papadakis NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has asked the NSW Law Reform Commission to review insurance laws that could prevent directors and officers from accessing their personal liability insurance. Ms Upton said the laws…