Arkansas Business reports that former Little Rock securities law shotshot/entrepreneur Gene Cauley got an 86-month federal prison sentence in New York today for wire fraud. And he's still almost $9 million short in making restitution to a client trust fund he tapped as his finances disintegrated.
[...]The good press for the Clinton School of Public Service continues. On the heels of a glowing piece in Arkansas Life, Sam Eifling of Arkansas Business favorably reviews the school’s ability to attract talent from all over the world.
Writes Mr. Eifling,
Clinton School students, though tough to stereotype, [...]
A federal court jury agreed today with six black employees of Nucor in Blytheville that they were subjected to racist treatment, and awarded $200,000 to each.
According to a report in Arkansas Business, supervisors re-enacted lynchings, broadcast racial slurs over the plant's radio system and portrayed black employees as monkeys, [...]
Excellent story in Arkansas Business by Mark Friedman about Jeff Collins, an economist and former head of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and his $10 million bankruptcy.
Collins talks candidly about the real estate speculation that led to his bankruptcy. It [...]
