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PROBLEM: 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
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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 A Japanese government-sanctioned seal of quality has been revoked on some of its product as well.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.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Fergie ? Fergie  apologized on Monday for  her  sultry version of the national anthem the night before that didn’t go over so well at the NBA All-Star Game  particularly on social media. Even Roseanne Barr chimed in.
 Fergie   42  acknowledged that  her  slowed-down jazzy version – as described by People magazine – didn’t strike the right note. Others described  her  take on the “Star Bangled Banner” as “sexy.”
"I've always been honored and proud to perform the national anthem and last night I wanted to try something special for the NBA "  she  said  per People. "I'm a risk taker artistically  but clearly this rendition didn’t strike the intended tone. I love this country and honestly tried my best."
"Something insane and terrible happened before tonight’s NBA All-Star Game " said Chris Thompson  a writer for sports website Deadspin. "No one will ever be able to explain it to my satisfaction. Even in the context of the NBA's disastrous  shriekingly awkward pregame nightmare   Fergie’s national anthem  was an absolute abomination. A goose being strangled in your living room would produce a much more pleasant series of noises."
Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr  whose rendition of  the national anthem  in 1990 at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium was roundly criticized as one of the worse  per the Sporting News  even criticized Ferguson's performance on Twitter.
Who saw  Fergie 's national anthem performance at the NBA All Star Game? I think mine was better lowkey — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) February 19  2018
Fergie’s rendition of  the National Anthem  was originally written by Francis Scott Out of Key. — bob saget (@bobsaget) February 19  2018
 Fergie  sang  that anthem  so bad  Kaepernick stood up and told  her  stop with the disrespect. — Bãlldiñhö™ 🇧🇲 (@Balldinho) February 19  2018
Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas just gave us the drunken aunt at your wedding version of the Star Spangled Banner. Yikes. — Jason Greene (@JasonGreene17) February 19  2018

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Natalia V. Veselnitskaya ? A report with the New York Times today is saying that there was more to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr.  several members of the Trump campaign team  and a Kremlin-connected attorney   Natalia V. Veselnitskaya   was more calculated than originally reported.
But interviews and records show that in the months before the meeting   Ms. Veselnitskaya  had discussed the allegations with one of Russiaâs most powerful officials  the prosecutor general  Yuri Y. Chaika. And the memo  she  brought with  her  closely followed a document that Mr. Chaikaâs office had given to an American congressman two months earlier  incorporating some paragraphs verbatim. The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskayaâs account that  she  was a purely independent actor when  she  sat down with Donald Trump Jr.  Jared Kushner  the presidentâs son-in-law  and Paul J. Manafort  then the Trump campaign chairman. It also suggests that emails from an intermediary to the younger Mr. Trump promising that  Ms. Veselnitskaya  would arrive with information from Russian prosecutors were rooted at least partly in fact â not mere âpuffery â as the presidentâs son later said.
The memo that  Ms. Veselnitskaya  brought to the Trump Tower meeting alleged that Ziff Brothers Investments  an American firm  had illegally purchased shares in a Russian company and evaded tens of millions of dollars of Russian taxes. The company was the financial vehicle of three billionaire brothers  two of them major donors to Democratic candidates including Mrs. Clinton. By implication   Ms. Veselnitskaya   said  those political contributions were tainted by âstolenâ money. Kremlin officials viewed the charges as extremely significant. The Ziff brothers had invested in funds managed by William F. Browder  an American-born financier and fierce Kremlin foe. Mr. Browder was the driving force behind a 2012 law passed by Congress imposing sanctions on Russian officials for human rights abuses. The law  known as the Magnitsky Act  froze Western bank accounts of officials on the sanctions list â including Mr. Chaikaâs deputy â and banned them from entering the United States. It was named after Sergei L.Magnitsky  a tax lawyer who had worked for Mr. Browder and who died in a Moscow jail after exposing a massive fraud scheme involving Russian officials.
As a former prosecutor for the Moscow regional government   Veselnitskaya  has traveled to the U.S. quite a bit  in order to lobby against the Magnitsky Act.
While investigating Mr. Browder and his investors   Ms. Veselnitskaya  unearthed what  she  considered evidence of a financial and tax fraud scheme. In October 2015   she  took  her  findings about Mr. Browder and the Ziff brothers directly to Mr. Chaika  Russiaâs top prosecutor and a man whom  she  has said  she  knows personally. Mr. Chaika was highly pleased with  her  report  according to a former colleague of  Ms. Veselnitskaya  who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions. In April 2016   Ms. Veselnitskaya  teamed with Mr. Chaikaâs office to pass the accusations to an American congressional delegation visiting Moscow. An official with the Russian prosecutor generalâs office gave a memo detailing the charges â stamped âconfidentialââ to Representative Dana Rohrabacher  a California Republican who is considered to be one of the most pro-Russia lawmakers in Congress and who heads a subcommittee that helps oversee U.S. policy toward Russia.
 Ms. Veselnitskaya  handed a nearly identical memo to Representative French Hill  Republican of Arkansas.  She  has said  she  also met with Mr. Rohrabacher then  although he said that he does not recall the encounter. The next month  Mr. Chaikaâs office described the alleged scheme on prosecutor generalâs website.
The documents brought by  Veselnitskaya  resembled the same documents given to Rohrabacher  with some of the wording exact.
Russian elites have been known to mount independent initiatives to curry favor with the Kremlin. But a number of well-known Russian analysts called it inconceivable that  Ms. Veselnitskaya  would have bypassed  her  own government to deliver what are now unmistakably official allegations to an American presidential campaign. Said Gleb O. Pavlovsky  the president of the Fund for Effective Politics  a Moscow research institute: âShe had guidance.â

SOLUTION:
Positive