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...“The fight against Cosa Nostra hasn’t been headline grabbing, but it’s been very successful over recent years,” said John Dickie, author of Mafia Republic, and several other books on Italian criminal organisations...
...But a second consultation on recommendations set out by Sir John Kingman in December 2018 could be launched in the coming weeks....
...He might not appear to have much in common with Jack Welch, who died last week, but they share a dangerous habit of conflating the individual with the institution, John Thornhill writes....
...Willis Towers Watson was itself the result of a 2015 merger between Willis and Towers Watson and chief executive John Haley later said bringing the companies together had been “more difficult than we thought...
...It’s something special,” says John Bracco, sales director at Immobilsarda, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate....
...“[Provenzano and Riina] exterminated their rivals and there was a moment in the 1980s when it looked like Sicily could go the way of Mexico and become a narcostate,” said John Dickie, professor of Italian...
...● The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has appointed John Pandtle as head of the US in Adia’s internal equities department, a newly created position....
...In a series of increasingly hostile missives, Mr Icahn criticised John Donahoe, eBay’s chief executive, for preaching the benefits of the dual-class structure, saying it protects a tech company’s ability...
...Let us hope the Falcone case is a precedent....
...Last week Reed Hundt, a former FCC chairman representing LightSquared, and John Nakahata, a lawyer representing Centerbridge, met FCC officials....
...(Financial Times) Falcone to admit wrongdoing: Philip Falcone and his hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners have agreed to pay more than $18m and admit wrongdoing in the regulator’s first use of a new policy...
...John Lloyd is an FT contributing editor...
...Sennheiser became aware of the problem a few years ago when the son of John Falcone, Sennheiser’s former president in the US, purchased a pair of phoney Sennheiser-branded earbuds that broke....
...Having first taken under his wing the struggling press agent Sidney Falcone (whom he renames Falco), Hunsecker then pressures Falco to break up the relationship between the columnist’s sister Susan and aspiring...
...The company, which is backed by Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital, is battling to win Federal Communications Commission approval to start building a data network before its funding runs out....
...(Financial Times) - Falcone is “seriously considering” filing a voluntary bankruptcy for Lightsquared. (Reuters) - A Tarp share buyback discount has drawn criticism....
...John Stanton, chairman and interim chief executive, told analysts on a conference call that the company was considering “all avenues” for funding the new network, including selling a strategic equity stake...
...John Deere, the agricultural equipment maker, added its voice on Wednesday, warning federal regulators that the network could “create massive interference” with precise agricultural gear guided by global...
...‘Beauty and the Inferno’ by Roberto Saviano (MacLehose Press) will be published in the UK early next year John Lloyd is an FT contributing editor ………………………………………….....
...reopen - CCMP and Unitas eye sale of Edwards From The Independent on Sunday, - British engineers pitch for Saudi nuclear programme - Nigeria appoints Barclays Capital to run Eurobond - John...
...John Paulson (Paulson & Co.) $2bn. 3. John Arnold (Centaurus Energy) $1.5bn 4....
...Summoned to explain themselves before a congressional committee on November 13th are Harbinger’s Philip Falcone, Citadel’s Kenneth Griffin, “I got subprime right” John Paulson and the daddy of hedge fund...
...The statements by George Soros, John Paulson, Philip Falcone and others suggested that hedge fund executives and lawmakers were reaching a consensus in the wake of the credit crisis that the status quo,...
...Philip Falcone, Kenneth Griffin, John Paulson, James Simons and George Soros are expected go before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday....
...John Paulson, who called for stiffer conditions on government funding in the TARP program, including the suspension of dividend payments on common stock until after TARP preferred shareholdings are repaid...
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