US President George Bush arrives at work today knowing he needs to find a new Attorney General after John Ashcroft announced his resignation.

Attorney general John Ashcroft and commerce secretary Don Evans resigned today.

A film about the murder of actor Robert Blake's wife Bonnie Lee Bakley is going into production and a search is on for actors to portray several real-life characters.

President George Bush called for stiff new penalties for corporate criminals and a crackdown on boardroom scandals today.

Former Big Five accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP was convicted of obstructing justice by destroying tonnes of documents related to its former client, Enron Corp.

A US federal grand jury today indicted the Arthur Andersen accounting firm in the Enron scandal, the first criminal charges in the biggest bankruptcy in the US.

An FBI agent who spied for Moscow today saved his life and his pension by pleading guilty to selling his country’s secrets.