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AIG May Sue the Government for Charging Too Much to Save It

Foreclosure Mess Drives Notaries to Take the Fifth

Yet another problem has begun surfacing in the documents banks have been using to foreclose on homes: false notarizations. Notaries have been attesting legally to signatures they didn't witness, sometimes by people who didn't actually sign, and it's adding to the tangled mess of ownership confusion.

What Enron's Ex-CEO Jeff Skilling Thinks He Did Wrong

The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether Skilling gets a new trial or his sentence reduced. Meantime, Fortune has published a sympathetic profile in which he describes three key mistakes he feels led to his conviction.