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Thu 11 Nov 2002Corporate reform in disarrayThe Bush administration's response to corporate crime has been thrown into disarray by a series of resignations that has left both the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a new accountancy oversight board without leadership.Mr William Webster, head of the board, stepped down following disclosures that he had headed the audit committee of US Technologies, a company that is under investigation for fraud. This comes after the resignation last week of Mr Harvey Pitt, the head of the SEC, the main US regulatory body.