Former Texaco Exec May Be Indicted

Lawyers representing a former Texaco Inc. executive charged with destroying documents in a race discrimination case said that plea negotiations with prosecutors have ended. The lawyers who represent Richard Lundwall said that talks collapsed after prosecutors refused to let them review a report written by an outside investigator for White Plains, N.Y.-based Texaco. Lundwall was charged in November with obstruction of justice in a complaint filed by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office. His lawyers said he is now expected to be indicted by a federal grand jury. “They [prosecutors] said he would be indicted next week,” said Christopher Riley, one of Lundwall’s lawyers. Riley said negotiations would only resume at the request of federal prosecutors. A spokesman for prosecutors said his office would not comment.