Ahold Update

The Baltimore Business Journal has an article on the litigation pending against Ahold NV based on alleged accounting fraud at U.S. Foodservice, its Columbia, MD subsidiary. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has consolidated the shareholder and employee suits in the D. of Md. before Judge Catherine C. Blake. The 10b-5 Daily has previously posted about the large number of suits that have been filed in this case.