U.S. Attorney Alice Martin, who oversaw the indictment yesterday of HealthSouth Corp.'s fired chief executive Richard Scrushy, has secured more guilty pleas in her investigation of the company than any U.S. attorney probing an accounting fraud since the collapse of Enron Corp. Martin, 48, got 14 convictions since March in a $2.7 billion fraud and alleged yesterday that Scrushy ran a scheme to inflate company stock. Her work reflects the approach of the Justice Department's Corporate Fraud Task Force, which Attorney General John Ashcroft set up last year to probe financial crimes at Enron, WorldCom Inc. and other companies.
Posted by Editor at November 5, 2003 10:12 AM