NEW YORK (AP) — Vivendi SA's former CEO says he made mistakes in his troubled bid to turn a French water company into a global media giant, but he never misled shareholders about the risks involved.

Jean-Marie Messier (mehs-YAY') told a federal jury Friday in New York he did his "very best" to build the company and couldn't foresee worldwide financial problems that contributed to its near-bankruptcy in 2002.

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