Thursday, August 03, 2006

Advocate of SOX reform points to capital markets leak


Tom Feeney is not a politician most voters would associate with the thicket of auditing and compliance rules laid out in the Sarbanes-Oxley law, enacted four years ago this weekend.

As speaker of the Florida house of representatives at the time of the controversial recount during the 2000 presidential election, he led efforts to have Republican members of the electoral college certified before it was clear whether Al Gore or George W. Bush had won the state's electoral votes.

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