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Google Founder Lobbies FCC to Free Spectrum

Zuliya — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:09:46 +0000

The battle for the use of white spaces, the unused portions of the television broadcast spectrum, is heating up.

Federal Jury Convicts Nat'l Century Exec

AP — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:10:45 +0000

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted the founder of a failed health care company of trying to bribe a witness in an upcoming $1.9 billion fraud trial.The jury took one day to deliver its decision against Lance Poulsen, former chief executive...

Exec. Denies Trying to Bribe Witness

AP — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:27:24 +0000

The government’s chief target in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case on Monday repeatedly denied trying to bribe a key witness to give favorable testimony.Former health care executive Lance Poulsen said the witness, former employee Sherry...

Ex-National Century Exec Goes on Trial

AP — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:24:05 +0000

Before Lance Poulsen can fight charges that he was the mastermind behind a $1.9 billion fraud scheme, the former CEO of National Century Financial must first deal with allegations that he proposed paying a government witness $500,000 to lie on...

NAACP Wants Apology From Overstock Chief

AP — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:22:10 +0000

The founder of Overstock.com rejected the NAACP’s demand for an apology Friday after an Internet video surfaced of him saying that Utah minorities who don’t graduate from high school might as well be burned or thrown away.Patrick Byrne’s comments were...