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YouTube - THE FLIGHT 93 FRAUD- Smoking Gun Evidence
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The Government must go forward with the contracts and attempt to measure today the impact of Boeing's fraud on the future. The Air Force and NASA contracts ...

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Boeing did not observe fair dealings for all transactions and interactions in accordance with The Boeing Company Code of Ethics. Boeing engaged in fraud, ...

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Boeing Pays Record $615 Million to End Fraud Charges
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100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics (2007) (From http://ethisphere.com/influential/)
These days, sustainability and responsibility are no small matter. However, ethical action – whether performed by large corporations or small, local non-profits – is not something that just happens; it’s brought on by inspired individuals. In honor of the approaching New Year, we decided to bring together the forerunners of the business ethics world from the past year, wrapped together in a tidy 1 to 100 ranking.
In order to come up with a list of nominees for the list, we reached out to a group of experts from major universities and institutions in order to assemble an advisory panel. With their collective expertise, and the help of a working group of Ethisphere editors, reporters and fact checkers (and after much heated and lengthy debate), we assembled the names of hundreds of nominees, and chiseled it down to a finely honed list of 100. The experts that weighed in on this story all belong somewhere near the top of the list in their own right but, unfortunately, they can’t be. Those were the rules.
Finally, we broke down all of the winners into nine core categories:
Government and Regulatory - Did the individual impact government rules or enforcement trends?
Business Leadership - Did the individual substantially transform a specific business’ operational practices consistent with profitable ethical leadership, forcing competitors to follow suit or fall behind?
Non-Government Organization (NGO) - Did the individual impact a company’s (or industry’s) practices through external, non-regulatory leadership either through positive collaboration or negative publicity for a positive end?
Design and Sustainability - Did the individual substantially contribute to or lead a product or service redesign, which resulted in less natural resource use, or increased consumer acceptance of sustainability without diminishing the quality of the original product or service?
Media and Whistleblowers – Did the individual raise awareness on a critical issue or expose corruption?
Thought Leadership – Did the individual conceive of new approaches or otherwise materially contribute to the field of business ethics theory in a way that could be easily applied by corporate leaders?
Corporate Culture – Did the individual show success to transforming the ethical culture and behavior of a corporation or institution, particularly if such corporation or institution previously had a less than ethical culture and values system?
Investment and Research – Did the individual impact corporate behavior through influencing investor decisions and the deployment of investment capital due to research or institutional fund management practices?
Legal and Governance – Did the individual impact any legal cases which set the precedents in corporate compliance, or influence trends or structure in effective corporate governance for public and/or private companies?
You may not agree with the politics, methods or actions of all of the people on the 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics for 2007. In fact you probably don’t. However, the bottom line is that all of these people influenced business ethics and resulting business behavior over the course of the year, whether that be influencing customers to demand ‘greener products’ from companies, to requiring greater disclosure by corporations about product safety, to forcing companies to look at their anti-bribery or anti-competitive compliance programs. All were influential somehow.
Now, without further ado, we present to you 2007’s 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics:
Rank Name Role Organization
1 Neelie Kroes Government + Regulatory European Commissioner for Competition
2 Myron T. Steele Government + Regulatory Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
3 Jeffrey R. Immelt Business Leadership Chairman & CEO, General Electric
4 H. Lee Scott, Jr. Business Leadership President & CEO, Wal-mart
5 Christopher Cox Government + Regulatory Chairman, U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
6 Huguette Labelle NGO Chair of Board of Directors, Transparency International (TI)
7 Anne Mulcahy Business Leadership Chairman & CEO, Xerox
8 Alan L. Boeckmann Business Leadership Chairman & CEO, Fluor Corporation
9 Björn Stigson NGO President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
10 Pascale Dubois Government + Regulatory Sanctions Evaluation and Suspension Officer, World Bank
11 Stuart Rose Business Leadership CEO, Marks & Spencer
12 Brian D. Miller Government + Regulatory Inspector General, U.S. General Services Administration (U.S. GSA)
13 Thomas Bergmark Design Social and Environmental Affairs Manager, IKEA Group
14 Mark F. Mendelsohn Government + Regulatory Deputy Chief, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
15 Serge P. Appel Design Associate Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
16 Greg Farrell Media + Disclosure Journalist (USA Today) and respected business author
17 Michael Dell Business Leadership Chairman and CEO, Dell
18 William Westwood Lockyer Government + Regulatory Treasurer, State of California
19 Eric Pillmore Corporate Culture Former SVP Corporate Governance, Tyco International
20 Dan McDougall Media + Disclosure Journalist, The Observer (U.K.)
21 Charley Situ Media + Disclosure Former Controller of LDK Solar Co.
22 Thomas Donaldson Thought Leadership Director, PhD Program in Ethics and Law, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
23 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Government + Regulatory President of Indonesia
24 Humberto Garcia Design Packaging Manager for Environmental Sustainability, Unilever
25 Jonathan S. Hoak Corporate Culture Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Hewlett-Packard
26 Alexandra Wrage NGO President, TRACE International Inc.
27 Peter D. Kinder Investment + Governance President and co-founder, KLD Research & Analytics
28 Mark Parker Business Leadership President & CEO, Nike
29 Al Gore NGO Nobelaureate and Former U.S. Vice-President
30 Daniel P. Amos Legal + Governance Chairman and CEO, Aflac
31 Danielle Brian Media + Disclosure Executive Director, Project On Government Oversight (POGO)
32 Milton Friedman Thought Leadership Economist and Nobel Laureate
33 Timothy Smith Investment + Governance Director of Socially Responsive Investment, Walden Asset Management
34 Bennett Freeman Investment + Governance SVP Social Research and Policy, Calvert
35 Wolfgang Schaupensteiner Government + Regulatory Senior Public Prosecutor, City of Frankfurt (Germany)
36 Kirk Hanson Thought Leadership Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
37 David P. Steiner Business Leadership CEO, Waste Management
38 Peter Webster Investment Executive Director, Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS)
39 R. Edward Freeman Thought Leadership Professor, The Darden School (University of Virginia)
40 Sir Terry Leahy Business Leadership Chief Executive, Tesco
41 Maryanne Lavan Corporate Culture VP Internal Audit, Lockheed Martin
42 Steve Driver Business Leadership President of Global Supply Chain, Cadbury Schweppes
43 Sarah Forrest, Anthony Ling, Marc Fox, and Stephan Feilhauer Investment Researchers, Goldman Sachs "GS Sustain Index"
44 Willard "Bill" Nielsen Corporate Culture Former VP of Public Affairs and Corporate Communications, Johnson & Johnson
45 Alan Knott-Craig Business Leadership CEO, Vodacom
46 Arnold Schwarzenegger Government + Regulatory Governor, State of California
47 Tensie Whelan NGO Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance
48 Gerald Grinstein Business Leadership Former CEO, Delta Airlines (retired in 2007)
49 Ira M. Millstein Legal Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
50 John Reid, MP Government + Regulatory Member of Parliament and former Home Secretary (U.K.)
51 Michael Schade NGO PVC Campaign Coordinator, the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
52 Tan Sri Hassan Marican Business Leadership President and CEO, Petronas (Malaysia)
53 Matthew J. Kiernan Investment + Governance Founder and CEO, Innovest Strategic Value Advisers
54 Indra K. Nooyi Business Leadership Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo
55 Philippa Foster-Back NGO Director, Institute for Business Ethics (IBE)
56 Paul Rice NGO President & CEO, TransFair USA
57 Jay G. Martin Corporate Culture VP & Chief Compliance Officer, Baker Hughes
58 Douglas M. Baker, Jr. Business Leadership CEO, Ecolab
59 A mysterious employee Media + Disclosure Unnamed Employee, National Air Cargo
60 Todd Paglia NGO Executive Director, ForestEthics
61 Alan Vinegrad Legal + Governance Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
62 Jonathan M. Malis Government + Regulatory Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
63 Mark Lee Investment + Research CEO, SustainAbility
64 Patrick Gnazzo Corporate Culture SVP, U.S. Public Sector Businesses, Computer Associates
65 Therese Martinet Design Sustainability + Citizenship Director of Sustainable Development, PSA Peugeot Citroën
66 Marilyn Carlson Nelson Business Leadership Chairman & CEO, Carlson Companies
67 Jeffrey Schwartz Business Leadership CEO, Timberland
68 Hayward Bell Corporate Culture Chief Diversity Officer, Raytheon
69 Richard Edelman Media + Disclosure President & CEO, Edelman
70 Howard Gardner Thought Leadership Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard University
71 Andrew Weissmann Legal Partner, Jenner & Block
72 Ethel Cormier Business Leadership Associate Director of Nutrition Science Institute, Procter & Gamble
73 Angel Gurría Government + Regulatory Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
74 James O’Toole Thought Leadership Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics, University of Denver
75 Mark Tercek Corporate Culture Director of Corporate Citizenship, Goldman Sachs
76 Dr. Patricia Harned Thought Leadership President, The Ethics Resource Center (ERC)
77 Carol Cone Media + Disclosure Chairman of Cone, Inc.
78 Richard Branson Business Leadership Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group
79 Allan Smith Business Leadership VP Global Chief of Environmental Strategy and Programs, Steelcase
80 Jay Bolus Design Manager of Technical Operations, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC (MBDC)
81 Jon Williams Business Leadership Head of Group Sustainable Development, HSBC
82 Fred Krupp Design, Sustainability + Citizenship President, Environmental Defense
83 Bob Langert Business Leadership VP Corporate Social Responsibility, McDonald’s
84 Leslie Gaines-Ross Business Leadership Chief Reputation Strategist, Weber Shandwick
85 Wang Shouye’s mistress Government + Regulatory Mistress for the Deputy Commander of Chinese Navy
86 Marc Gunther Media + Disclosure Journalist, Fortune Magazine
87 Martin J. Weinstein Legal + Governance Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
88 David P. Stangis Corporate Culture Director of Corporate Responsibility, Intel
89 Alan Yuspeh Corporate Culture SVP, Ethics, Compliance and Corporate Responsibility, Columbia/HCA Healthcare
90 David Logan Design, Sustainability + Citizenship Co-founder and Executive Director, The Corporate Citizenship Company
91 Mark Pieth Government + Regulatory Chairman, OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions
92 Roy Snell NGO CEO, Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE)
93 Ronald F. Duska Thought Leadership Director, Mitchell Center for Ethical Leadership
94 Jon Lukomnik Legal + Governance Founder and Managing Partner, Sinclair Capital
95 Gavin Newsom Government + Regulatory Mayor, San Francisco
96 Mindy S. Lubber NGO President, Ceres
97 Jonathan Lash Design, Sustainability + Citizenship President, World Resources Institute
98 Joseph Keefe Investment + Governance President and CEO, Pax World Management
99 Mark Buckley Design VP Environmental Affairs, Staples
100 Georg Kell NGO Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact
*For in-depth commentary and individual break downs on why each individual made the list, please refer to the Q4 edition of Ethisphere Magazine, released in December, 2007.

Advisory Panel:
The following individuals offered their knowledge and expertise on business ethics to lend a hand in constructing this list.
Ronald Berenbeim
Principal Researcher, Business Ethics
The Conference Board
John Dienhart
Frank Shrontz Chair for Business Ethics and Professor of Management
Seattle University
Cristián del Campo
Director, Business and Economics Ethics Program
Alberto Hurtado University
Charles Elson
Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance
University of Delaware
Paul Fiorelli
Director, Williams College of Business Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Xavier University
Marianne Jennings
Professor of Legal and Ethical Studies, W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
Brian Moriarty
Associate Director for Communications
Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Paul Moxey
Head of Corporate Governance and Risk Management
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Hans Schöllhammer
Professor, Anderson School of Management
UCLA
Buie Seawell
Louis B. Beaumont Professor of Business Education, The Daniels College of Business
University of Denver
Jeffrey Seglin
Associate Professor of Writing, Literature & Publishing
Emerson College
Linda Trevino
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cook Fellow in Business Ethics, Smeal College of Business
Pennsylvania State University

I quote POGO’s comments published about the Ethisphere publication:

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Thought-provoking, informative, and at times irreverent, Ethisphere Magazine offers insight to readers on gaining market share and creating sustainable competitive advantage through ethical business practices and corporate citizenship. With a circulation of 65,000 Board members, CEOs, General Counsel, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officers and senior executives, Ethisphere Magazine is the largest print publication in compliance, ethics and corporate social responsibility.

About The Publisher

The research-based Ethisphere Institute and associated membership group, the Ethisphere Council, are supported by more than 100 institutions and corporations, including LexisNexis, the Practising Law Institute, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Global Reporting Initiative, Corpedia, Deutsche Telekom, Time Warner, Avaya and Kraft. The Institute is dedicated to the research, creation, and sharing of best practices in ethics, compliance, and corporate governance among its membership companies. It also focuses on the development and advancement of individuals on its membership council through increased efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and unique career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine is the quarterly publication of the Institute. More information on membership can be found at http://www.ethisphere.com.”
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Embattled State Department Inspector General Resigns
By Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers

Friday 07 December 2007

Washington - Embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under fire for allegedly impeding probes into problems with construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and with security firm Blackwater Worldwide, submitted his resignation Friday.

Krongard has been at the center of a storm for the past two months as current and former State Department employees charged that he blocked them from pursuing investigations into contract fraud and mismanagement at the unopened $740 million embassy and into alleged arms smuggling by Blackwater.

In an e-mail to his staff, obtained by McClatchy, Krongard said that he plans to leave the government by Jan. 15.

In a reference to the upheaval in the inspector general's office in recent months, he told his staff: "I also ask you, frankly, to make an effort to reduce the static that interferes with the harmony we would like to achieve."

There was no immediate comment from the State Department.

The State Department's inspector general is supposed to investigate criminal wrongdoing, audit contracts and inspect the agency's embassies and missions worldwide.

Krongard, a former counsel to several leading accounting firms, became the focus of attention in mid-September, when Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Committee, released a letter questioning his conduct.

Krongard initially vowed to fight the charges.

But his position crumbled at a hearing of the House panel last month, when it became known that his brother, former top CIA official Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard, had been offered a position on a Blackwater advisory board.

In testimony to the House panel, Krongard initially disputed that his brother had ties to Blackwater. But he changed his position after speaking to him by phone during a break in the hearing. The revelation demoralized his Republican backers.

Krongard is the second major casualty in a spreading controversy over Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's management of department activities in Iraq.

Richard Griffin, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, quit in late October amid a furor over a Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad by Blackwater employees that left 17 Iraqis dead.

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He is now asking for more money on top of the original budget passed by Congress, AND the additional sum he got out of them after that.

I note that where I live, near an Airforce base, the amount of flights in and out at night have increased again this past two weeks. This usually occurs when they are getting ready for another offensive; it is our prewarning system that lets us know before the media starts talking about it. I worry about what he and his cronies are up to.

It just gets curiouser and curiouser.

GFS

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