"Fairy circles," the distinctive bald spots dotting the Namibian grasslands, were once mysterious not only for their striking patterns, but their exclusivity: no other landscape in the world seemed to have the same six-sided honeycombs.But more than 6,200 miles away,
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A License to Kill
$350,000. That’s the value an anonymous American big game hunter is willing to pay to shoot one of the world’s last 5,000 black rhinoceroses. 1,700 of these live in Namibia, which recently auctioned off a permit to kill an old…
Policy Guidances From Obama Administration Encourage Linkages Between HIV and Family Planning Programs
Guttmacher Institute: More Work Needed to Bridge the Gap Between HIV and Family Planning Services Worldwide, by Rebecca Wind: A series of policy guidances recently issued by the Obama administration strongly endorse linkages between HIV and family planning programs…
Former Comverse CEO Settles SEC Backdating Charges
The SEC today settled civil charges against Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, the co-founder and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comverse Technology, Inc., arising out of his role in the company’s long-running stock options backdating scheme. Shortly before the SEC filed…
HIV-Positive Namibian Women Testify About Forced Sterilizations
Inquirer Global Nation/Agence France-Presse: Namibian women with HIV tell court of forced sterilizations, by Christine Peters:WINDHOEK, Namibia—In the throes of labor, a Namibian woman wasapproached by a nurse who handed her a document to sign, saying theform would authorize…
In the News & Around the Blogosphere
By Ellen Podgor
John Grobler, NYTimes, 3 Plead Not Guilty to Corruption in NamibiaRick Everett, NJ.com, Parsippany developer's federal trial on bribery charges remains on holdDOJ Press Release, Clinic Manager and Patient Recruiter Plead Guilty for Roles in $2 Million Medicare…
International Tribunal Rules For Zimbabwe Farmers on Land Expropriation
By propertyprof
The New York Times has an interesting story on an international tribunal’s condemnation of Zimbabwe’s confiscation of white farmers’ property:Mr. Etheredge this year became one of dozens of white farmers to challenge the government’s right to confiscate their land, and…
Comverse Internal Probe Finds Additional Wrongdoing
A Comverse Technology investigation found that, in addition to backdating stock options, Kobi Alexander, its former CEO now living in Namibia, manipulated the company’s earnings and falsified dates when he exercised some stock options. WSJ, Probe Finds Comverse Executives Falsified…
Comverse Comes Clean on Kobi, and He Countclaims for $72 Million
By Ellen Podgor
Comverse Technology issued the final report (here) on its internal investigation of options backdating and earnings manipulation, blaming the misconduct squarely on its founder and former CEO, Kobi Alexander, and other senior executives. In 2006, Alexander fled —…
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By Ellen Podgor
While former Comverse Technology CEO Kobi Alexander has been successful in fighting off extradition from Namibia on charges related to options backdating at the company, he lost on the government’s civil asset forfeiture action that may well result in the…