NATIONAL

November 7, 2003 | John J. Goldman, Times Staff Writer

The captain of the Staten Island ferry that crashed into a pier last month, killing 10 people, finally met with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday, but would give only his name and age. NTSB head Ellen G. Engleman said that Michael Gansas exercised his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions about the Oct. 15 accident. "We hope we will be able to talk to Capt. Gansas in the future," Engleman said in a statement.

BUSINESS

March 23, 2002 | DAVID STREITFELD, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Nancy Temple, a lawyer for accounting firm Andersen being quizzed about her role in the shredding of Enron Corp. documents, cited her 5th Amendment right to keep silent 138 times Friday. Temple was deposed by lawyers who had filed a class-action suit against Andersen, which approved Enron's financial statements. In an unusual move, a federal judge in Houston permitted Temple and eight other Andersen employees to be questioned much earlier than such a case would normally allow.

NEWS

February 26, 2002

People who play the market are now at each other's throats. The Bulls & Tigers of Forest Hills, a ladies investment club of 10, meets every month to play the stock market. This month the meeting was held at Jane Peters' house. The club had made $20,000 in the year 2000, and while things went down in 2001, they could still barely hold their heads above water. When the going was good, they called themselves the Sunshine Ladies because they couldn't lose as far as their investments were concerned.

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