7/10/2002 - "In a speech in New York's financial district on Tuesday,
President Bush said he wanted to tighten measures against corporate fraud.
He announced a
doubling -
to 10 years - of the maximum prison sentence, and the formation of a special investigative task force.
But Judicial Watch said that
Mr Bush's rush to crack down on corporate fraud seemed intended to deflect attention away from his and Mr Cheney's own business practices.
Mr Bush has already faced questions about his work as a director of Texas-based Harken Energy Corp a decade ago,
when the firm faced an inquiry for masking huge losses.
His administration has been further embarrassed by
a promotional video recorded by the Andersen firm in 1996, in which
Mr Cheney - the then
chief executive of Halliburton -
praises the
now disgraced audit company."