Comments on: A victory for Andersen?

By: Stromata Blog

Stromata Blog — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:27:44 +0000

The Last Day of Arthur Andersen

You probably didn’t realize that Arthur Andersen LLP still exists. It’s a withered existence: a couple of hundred employees, one location, a small revenue stream from educational seminars, and a not-yet-finished trail of litigation. Today the most …

By: Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:02:41 +0000

In a manner of speaking, yes. People have been convicted of filing off the serial numbers (VINs) off of cars in order to escape detection. It’s known as “vehicle identification number (VIN) obliteration” according to the DOJ. Now, a VIN is a car’s equivalent of a fingerprint.

The difficulty with normal fingerprint wiping is proving that it actually happened. Not easy, nor does it tend to be a major concern of police, I would think. In the Andersen case, there is plenty of evidence that, de minimis, the company was engaging in the moral equivalent of VIN or fingerprint wiping. Was that illegal at that time? I guess the SC will answer that question soon.

By: Houston's Clear Thinkers

Houston's Clear Thinkers — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:34:09 +0000

Is Anderson a winner?

Although such matters are notoriously unpredictable, the SCOTUS blog — the premier U.S. Supreme Court blog — reports that observors of the oral argument earlier today on Arthur Anderson’s appeal to the Supreme Court of its witness tampering convictio…

By: WWREN

WWREN — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:26:06 +0000

The Governmment apparently argued that the Andersen shredding was no different from a thief wiping clean his fingerprints from the scene of the crime.

I never knew that the act of “fingerprint wiping” is a crime.

Has anyone ever been convicted for wiping fingerprints?