Following a decision by a U.S. District court to toss out a case against 13 former KPMG executives, the Justice Department has made an effort to tout its conviction record. At the same time embattled US AG Alberto Gonzales was decrying the KPMG verdict, DOJ number two, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was attemoting to focus attention on the Department's 1,236 convictions in corporate fraud cases since 2002. Click on through to this IHT article for further details on the KPMG verdict as well as for further comment from the DOJ on life after Enron.

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