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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kobe Steel ? TOKYO (Reuters) -  Kobe Steel Ltd  admitted on Tuesday  its  data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating  highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance.
Kobe Steel  which supplies steel parts to manufacturers of cars  planes and trains around the world  admitted last year to supplying products with falsified specifications to about 500 customers  throwing global supply chains into turmoil.
 Kobe Steel  also announced the resignation of Executive Vice President Akira Kaneko and temporary pay cuts for up to 80 percent of all internal directors and executive officers.
 Kobe Steel  President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki attends a news conference in Tokyo  Japan March 6  2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
 PROBLEMS LONG ENTRENCHED
Kobe Steel  said the data cheating started at least as early as the 1970s  based on testimony from multiple sources interviewed by the external investigation team.
 The company  mapped out various preventive measures  including setting up an external committee to oversee quality issues  but those familiar with  the company  say  its  problems are entrenched.
 Kobe Steel  has had a series of scandals in the last dozen years  including taking part in bid-rigging for a bridge project in 2005  failing to report income to tax authorities in 2008  2011 and 2013  and falsifying emissions data in 2006. Illegal political funding to candidates in local elections in 2009 also prompted the resignations of the then CEO and chairman.
The data fraud scandal  though  so far appears to have left  Kobe Steelâs  finances unscathed. In February   the company  reinstated a forecast for  its  first annual profit in three years for the year ending March 31.
But  the company  is also undergoing a U.S. Justice Department probe  meaning  it  still faces legal and financial risk. A Japanese government-sanctioned seal of quality has been revoked on some of its product as well.
âThere is a pending risk for  Kobe Steel  as customers at home or abroad may cancel their contracts and take legal actions  and the U.S. Justice Department may seek a penalty â said Makiko Yoshimura  director at S&P Global Rating Japan.
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Positive


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jacob Lerma ? FRIENDSWOOD  Texas (AP) — As  Jacob Lerma  surveyed the skeletal beams of  his  suburban Houston home that was flooded during Hurricane Harvey   he  kept muttering three words as  he  wondered if  his  family would ever be able to move back in: “I don’t know.”
Like many Texans whose homes were flooded during  Harvey  Lerma  faces mounting expenses and hasn’t paid  his  mortgage in months.  His  insurance payment wasn’t enough to rebuild  his  home and  he  was only offered a small loan after applying with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  His  last hope is a possible buyout from the city of Friendswood. In the meantime   he    his  wife and two daughters will continue living with  his  parents.
During last year’s hurricane season  mortgage financiers such as Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac encouraged lenders to offer homeowners a forbearance — a temporary suspension or reduction in their mortgage payments — for up to 12 months.  Lerma  got one from  his  lender.
 Lerma  said  his  family is “at a pretty bad point right now” as  he ’s maxed out credit cards and emptied  his  savings. Yet   he  remains hopeful.
“We know we’ll get through it. We’re just riding it out ”  he  said.
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Neutral


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lance Armstrong ? Federal prosecutors have intensified their criminal investigation of the cyclist Lance Armstrong since the Tour de France ended last month. They questioned many of his former associates -- including cyclists who have supported and further detailed claims that Armstrong and his former U.S. Postal Service team participated in systematic doping  according to a cyclist who has been interviewed and two others privy to the inquiry.
 In May  Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis shocked the cycling world by publicly accusing Armstrong and other team members of using performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions to gain an unfair advantage. Landis said that Armstrong -- the biggest name in the sport -- had encouraged the doping and that the team had sold its bikes to help finance an expensive doping program.
 Armstrong has denied any wrongdoing and has said that Landis  who was stripped of his 2006 Tour title for doping and received a two-year ban from the sport  had no credibility.
 A former teammate of Armstrong's said in a telephone interview Wednesday that he has spoken with investigators. He said he detailed some of his own drug use  as well as the widespread cheating that he said went on as part of the Postal Service team -- all of which was done with Armstrong's knowledge and encouragement.
 Armstrong is considered one of the more remarkable athletes in American history  someone who dominated his sport and also had a compelling personal story  having beaten testicular cancer.
 Jeff Novitzky  a special agent for the Food and Drug Administration  is in charge of the investigation and has been interviewing Armstrong's former teammates and associates. Novitzky -- the head investigator in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroids case -- is trying to determine if Armstrong  his teammates  the owners or managers of his former team conspired to defraud their sponsors by doping to improve their performance and win more money and prizes.
 Armstrong did not respond to requests for comment put directly to his agent and his manager on Wednesday.
 Toward the end of the Tour de France  Armstrong  a seven-time winner of the event  said he would deny any involvement in doping "as long as I live."
 Bryan D. Daly  a defense lawyer representing Armstrong  said any cyclists who claim that Armstrong had doped were not telling the truth.
 "They just want them to incriminate Lance Armstrong and that's my concern " Daly said  adding that the prosecutors were working closely with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to pressure Armstrong's former teammates. "To the extent that there's anyone besides Floyd Landis saying things  the bottom line is  if you take away the soap opera and look at the scientific evidence  there is nothing."
 "If Lance Armstrong came in second in those Tour de France races  there's no way that Lance Armstrong would be involved in these cases " Daly said. "I think that the concern is that they are caught up in the pursuit of a celebrity to catch him in a lie."
 Armstrong  who has just returned from a post-Tour vacation in the Bahamas  was in Denver Wednesday to announce a weeklong stage race to be held next August in Colorado. To promote the event  he rode through the city's downtown streets with Gov. Bill Ritter  drawing a large crowd.
 In Denver  Armstrong told The Associated Press that he had "nothing to say" about the federal investigation.
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Positive