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CCA Gets Tangled in Financial Quagmire
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001
by Ronald Young
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2001, page 13
CCA Gets Tangled In Financial Quagmire
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Financing,
Damages,
Contractor Liability.
Location:
Tennessee.
Corrections Corporation of America said it is contesting an $8.1 million request for payment from Merrill Lynch & Company related to its hiring of the investment firm in late 1999 for advice on a company restructuring.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange ...
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