John Coffee
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"John Coffee" was an American plantation/planter and state militia general in Tennessee. He commanded troops under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Wars (1813–1814) and the later Battle of New Orleans.

President Andrew Jackson appointed Coffee as his representative, along with Secretary of War John Eaton (politician)/John Eaton, to negotiate treaties with Southeast American Indian tribes to accomplish removal, a policy authorized by Congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Coffee negotiated the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830 with the Choctaw by which they ceded their lands, and started negotiations with the Chickasaw, but they did not conclude a treaty until after his death.

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I think it's safe to say they won't serve more than 10 to 12 years.

I would expect that both sides now are struggling to control the board. It may be that there are directors who were appointed by each side, but outside independent directors are not going to be loyal to someone if there is strong persuasive evidence that that person was involved in fraud.

A simple overhearing of information in an elevator, if that's what really happened, doesn't amount to a deceptive misappropriation.

The one thing we can be confident of is that the books are cooked. We don't need to know who cooked the books to know that there is deep trouble for this company ... Bankruptcy reorganization looms and that the creditors are going to start looking for deep pockets to sue.

There were no legal rules against spinning. The only question is one of ethics. And there, the question is this: Did Goldman see him as a future dispenser of future business? There's no way to know.

This is not a classic setting where someone gets barred for conduct as a corporate officer. Everything Martha did was in her private capacity.

Companies are resigned to the fact that Arthur Andersen is soon to be deceased.

I suspect this rush to settle the civil antitrust actions and the securities class action are the product of both an approaching deal with the government involving a plea of guilty to criminal price fixing, and also the approaching shareholders meeting.

To the extent that [Lay] is making a statement of opinion, the government has to show not only that that statement was false but that he knew it to be false.