Short Reports

Tue., March 9, 1999

From Staff

Warren Gross, president of the Export Assistance Center of Washington, will speak Wednesday at a business roundtable presented by the Whitworth Institute and Graduate School of International Management. The day was reported incorrectly in Monday’s newspaper. The discussion will be held at the Spokane Regional Business Center, 801 W. Riverside, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. For information, call Karla Sammons at 777-4279.

Jon Corzine, co-chairman of Goldman Sachs & Co., will leave the elite, private New York investment bank after it transforms into a public company this summer. Corzine told Goldman’s 220 partners Monday he was leaving after they voted overwhelmingly to sell at least 10 percent of the firm to the public to raise more than $2 billion.

Two businessmen in southeastern China have been executed in a 640 million yuan ($77 million) tax-fraud case, official newspapers reported Monday. The tax fraud blamed on Hu Yinfeng and Lu Huaming was one of the biggest reported in China, which has publicized long prison terms and some death sentences in a crackdown on tax cheats.

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