Paul Sarbanes, co-author of SOX accounting law, dies at 87
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-07T21:34:00
Paul Sarbanes, the five-term U.S. Senator whose landmark law, the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, required more transparency in corporate financial reporting, died Sunday at age 87.
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