Article: Legal experts' reactions mixed on Marsh acquittal; But judge's decision not seen as lessening impact of Spitzer.(NEWS)(Joseph Peiser, Greg J. Doherty and Kathleen M. Drake into bid-rigging investigations)

Byline: SALLY ROBERTS

The acquittal of three former Marsh Inc. executives accused in connection with New York state's bid-rigging investigation of the brokerage drew mixed reactions from legal experts last week.

Some said the not-guilty verdicts for Joseph Peiser, Greg J. Doherty and Kathleen M. Drake were not surprising, given New York County Supreme Court Judge James A. Yates' relatively light sentences imposed in the first trial last year in the case.

In that trial, Judge Yates found William Gilman and Edward J. McNenneycalled the "architect and "enforcer, respectively, of Marsh's bid-rigging scheme in its global broking unitguilty of ...

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