his is a bad season for corporate suits in Uncle Sam�s country. Close on the heels of Martha Stewart and Enron case it is the turn of WPP�S Ogilvy & Mather. Former and present executives from the firm testified before a court in New York after signing non-prosecution agreements with the government. They admitted that they altered their timesheets as part of an alleged scheme to defraud the government on its $1 billion anti-drug account. The executives are Jonathan Swallen, former Ogilvy director of media research, now vice-president and director of research at TNS Media Intelligence; Lisa Strassberg, a former supervisor and is now at MindShare; Laura Weinkam, a former account supervisor who is now a group account director at Arnell Group; Janet Berg, who remains an Ogilvy senior partner and management supervisor; and Mary Ellen Maloney, the former assistant to former president of national broadcast Peter Chrisanthopoulos.
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