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Ohio To AOL: You've Got Accounting Fraud Suit
Leading the charge will be the State Teachers
Retirement System, which yesterday authorized Attorney
General Jim Petro’s office to file the suit. A source
confirmed that other pension funds would be represented in
the suit, but estimates of pension losses due to plummeting
values for AOL Time Warner stock were unavailable,
according to news sources.
This is the latest in a series of actions taken by pension
systems in the Buckeye State seeking to recoup investment
losses in connection with Wall Street scandals.
Other suits have been filed in the
scandals surrounding Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom
(See
Ohio Will Stay Close to Home With Enron,
WorldCom Claims).
Additionally, AOL Time Warner has been accused in a series of suits alleging accounting fraud and insider trading. Earlier the University of California, following a similar path to recovering investment losses as the Ohio pensions, filed a lawsuit alleging AOL Time Warner executives made approximately $936 million through insider trading during the merger two years ago (See Lawsuit Accuses AOL Time Warner Execs of Insider Trading ).