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>> immaterial’ allan dodds frank at courthouse where the jury deliberates on two former tyco executives. we’ll fill you in in a moment.
>> jurors weighing larceny and fraud charges against the former chief executive officer dennis kozlowski and former chief financial officer mark swartz asked for board meeting minutes. allan dodds frank has been at courthouse all day following the deliberations. he joins me live with an update.
>> mike, here at criminal court building up on the 13th floor the jury of nine men and three women grind away at their deliberations. since they took a lunch break almost two hours ago, they have not sent out any notes. this is the fifth day of deliberations as you mentioned. they have sent out more than 20 notes so far asking for readback of testimony and evidence pertaining to various of the 32 counts against dennis kozlowski, former chief executive officer of tyco, and who is charged with 24 counts. they include grand larceny, conspiracy, falsifying business records and securities fraud. his co-defendant, mark swartz, former chief financial officer of tyco, also faces 24 counts, many of which overlap with kozlowski’s. earlier today the jury asked for evidence that pertained to the corporate minutes of tyco because the two defendants have contended with mark swartz taking the stand alone, by the way―no kozlowski testimony -- mark swartz contending that the loans and bonuses they got were authorized by the board although there were not minutes kept. it’s interesting that the jury wants to look at minutes to see what is and is not in there. they wanted to also look at documents containing testimony by the former executive compensation officer of tyco who said while on the stand for the prosecution that a bonus related to a transaction tyco did―an acquisition, a stock swap, that bonuss that dennis kozlowski and mark swartz paid to themselves, multi-million bonuses, were not known to the board. mike?
>> allan dodds frank from outside the state courthouse in lower manhattan. more on that terrorism scare in france. mark crumpton is off tonight. but nicole is sitting in. she has some details on that.
>> thanks, mike. the french interior ministry says a bomb with seven detonators was found on the railroad hreuplging paris to the swiss city of bazell. service on that route was suspended. authorities say one of the bomb’s wires was disconnected. the government said the device did not match the kind planted a month ago in central france by a group calling itself a.z.f. today’s bomb discovery coincides with a memorial service in madrid to commemorate the 190 people killed in terrorist bombings there two weeks ago. in washington, day two of public hearings by an independent commission on the september 11 terrorist attacks. former white house advisor richard clarke said finding al qaeda and osama bin laden was a high priority in the bush administration but he said the bush administration was not intent on fighting terrorism before the attacks. clarke advised president bush and former president clinton on terrorism. george tenet, director of u.s. intelligence under clinton and bush, told the commission that both administrators focused intensely on fighting terrorism.
