| SUIT: BOSS FLASHED HER BOOBS
A man says he was unjustly fired after spurning the advances of his boss - who bared her breasts to him repeatedly, tried to touch his genitals and offered to help him quit smoking by substituting "real" kisses for cigarettes, according to a blockbuster lawsuit. "She'd leave [her blouse] unbuttoned lower than the cleavage area," said Jos Carrion, 46, who has a common-law wife and two kids. "Basically, keeping herself on display." Carrion says that his former supervisor, Rose Medina, kept propositioning him while he worked as a chief technician for Bronx River Nephro-Care, a kidney dialysis unit, from November 2006 through May. "Although [Carrion] told Ms. Medina that her actions made him feel extremely uncomfortable, Ms. Medina refused to stop," says Carrion's lawsuit, filed at Bronx Supreme Court.
Qwest, Nacchio settle legal fee dispute
DENVER Qwest Communications International Inc. said Monday it will continue to pay just a portion of Joe Nacchio's legal fees as the one-time CEO appeals his $52 million insider-trading conviction. Qwest, which had been required under its bylaws to pick up the legal tab, will pay bills incurred through the day Nacchio was sentenced and a portion of lead defense attorney Herbert Stern's bills during his appeal, but it will not pay for Nacchio's appellate attorneys. In exchange, Nacchio will give Qwest a $6.5 million letter of credit to secure advances Qwest pays, company spokesman Bob Toevs said. Nacchio was sentenced to six years in prison and $71 million in fines and forfeitures Friday after he was convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading for selling stock when he knew Qwest faced financial risk but concealed the problems from investors.
Briefs: ConAgra agrees to pay $45 million fine to SEC
OMAHA — ConAgra Foods Inc. has agreed to pay a $45 million civil fine as part of a settlement with federal regulators who had accused the company of using improper accounting to help it meet Wall Street expectations between 1999 and 2001, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.ConAgra has already recorded charges totaling $47.7 million in anticipation of settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission, spokeswoman Stephanie Childs said.The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in U.S. District Court in Denver on Tuesday, accusing ConAgra of "improper, and in certain instances fraudulent" accounting in fiscal 1999 through 2001. .
Spitzer still undecided on franchise operator by Paul Post
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's special counsel said on Tuesday that the governor has not decided which organization will oversee the state's racing franchise despite strong rumors that the New York Racing Association will be kept in place. "There is no governor's plan," Richard Rifkin told about 200 industry members assembled for the annual Saratoga Institute of Racing and Gaming Law, hosted by Albany Law School in Saratoga Springs, New York. "He has never articulated a plan." Rifkin chairs a committee created by Spitzer to advise him on selecting a new franchisee. The group will not make a formal recommendation, choosing one firm over another, Rifkin said. "I think it's going to be an ongoing internal process," he said. "There will be a dialogue." NYRA is one of four groups bidding to operate the state's race tracks—Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course.
Qiniq: from high speed to no speed?
More than 3,700 users of Nunavut's highly-praised Qiniq high-speed internet system will soon see their service deteriorate because of a dispute that prevents technicians from repairing equipment located on property controlled by the Qulliq Energy Corp. The complex dispute is rooted in business deals alleged to have been made as far back as 2000, involving the Qulliq Energy Corp., the Nunavut Broadband Development Corp, and SSI Micro. SSI Micro is the Yellowknife firm contracted to operate and maintain the Qiniq network on behalf of the broadband corporation. Darrell Ohokannoak, chair of the Nunavut Broadband Development Corp., speaks at an event held in Iqaluit this past March to promote the popular Qiniq network's need for more bandwidth to host new services they want to run on their network.
Civil-union fight leads to federal court suit
New Jersey is attempting to strip the Camp Meeting Association of its rights of free speech and to freely exercise its religion, according to a federal suit that has stirred simmering passions about same-sex civil unions in this beachfront community. The suit maintains that the state's Law Against Discrimination should be declared unconstitutional if it is used to prohibit the association from using its buildings in accordance with its religious beliefs. The suit was filed electronically Saturday by the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alliance Defense Fund against J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, director of the state's Division on Civil Rights, in response to an investigation undertaken by the division. The division is looking into charges of discrimination against the association brought by two local same-sex couples for refusing to permit them to hold civil-union ceremonies in the boardwalk pavilion.
Kuhn sues partner
Downtown Jacksonville developer Cameron Kuhn has filed two lawsuits against a Minnesota investor, claiming the man has failed to meet his fiduciary responsibilities and is conducting a smear campaign to damage his reputation. One of the suits, filed Aug. 6 in the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Orange County against Frank Vennes Jr. and several limited liability companies, states that the plaintiff intended to make "several false allegations concerning the plaintiff's financing of the co-development projects. The defendants intended to make these statements with the malicious intent to harm the plaintiffs within the commercial development community." .
Suit seeks to block MOHELA
Two student loan holders have filed a lawsuit with the help of a Jackson lawyer to block Gov. Matt Blunt's plan to finance college construction projects by taking $350 million from the state's student loan authority. The lawsuit against the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority and its officials claims the agency is violating both its state-mandated mission and its financial duty to students by allowing its money to be used for campus construction rather than lower loan rates for its borrowers. .
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