NEW YORK (August 13) – Just two months prior to the start of one of the largest anti-bribery cases in U.S. history: U.S. vs. James Giffen, observers in a pre-trial hearing held July 29th learned that the trial date would not hold and were ushered out of the federal courtroom less than thirty minutes into the proceedings for national security reasons. (Marlena Telvick, 13 August 2004)

NEW YORK (July 9) - With the trial in U.S. vs. James Giffen only several months away, the trial judge handed down several significant decisions favoring the defense last Friday, including a surprise decision to allow the defense access to classified CIA and State Department documents that could provide the basis for a new defense. (Marlena Telvick, 9 July 2004)

NEW YORK (June 11) – Thirty minutes before hearings began in the largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) case in U.S. history last Thursday, defendant James Giffen sat quietly at the back of the courtroom flanked by three members of his prominent legal team as an assortment of high-powered oil industry lawyers, public relations advisors, and Kazakh opposition interests filed into the wood-paneled courtroom. (Marlena Telvick, 11 June 2004)

NEW YORK, May 20 - Hearings in the most far reaching Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case in U.S. history, scheduled to begin in Manhattan on May 14th in U.S. vs. James H. Giffen, have been delayed until June 3rd. (Marlena Telvick, 20 May 2004)