Daily Kos:
If you open Karen Armstrong's new book, The Case for God, expecting to find some list of mysterious cures, scientific curiosities, or certified miracles pointing toward the physical presence of a divine influence in the world, you will be sorely disappointed. Armstrong has no interest in, and is in fact completely antithet (Read More)
New York Times:
The downfall of a Marc S. Dreier, the fraudulent financier, left a copy machine operator without a job. But he has impressed his caseworker with his initiative.
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The Guardian:
Brazilian government starts investigation into how radio comedian impersonated president Luiz Inácio da Silva in Rio interviewWhen Brazil's notoriously interview-shy president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, offered journalists from Angolan state radio an exclusive telephone chat, they should probably have smelled a rat.When Lu (Read More)
National Review Online:
Just want to say a word about the passage of “national health care” -- maybe not a very welcome word. There comes a time, I think, when you have to point to the American electorate, who put those Democrats in place: in the House, in the Senate, and in the White House. Pelosi et al. did not shoot their way in; they didn’t st (Read More)
L.A. Times - Commentary:
The L.A. Housing Authority proposal for a 2,100-unit project represents a stunning waste of money and opens the door wide to fraud. Focusing on the benefits of less crime could revitalize the area. Bad ideas, if they were ever widely acce (Read More)
IOL: Crime And Courts:
Insurance fraud has increased dramatically in these tough financial times, according to leading authorities in the industry. (Read More)
FT.com - World, Europe:
A US court yesterday handed down the first prison sentence to a former US client of UBS in a ruling that will unsettle the Swiss banking group's other US former... (Read More)
Washington Post:
In one of the largest consumer payouts of its type, MoneyGram International has agreed to fork over $18 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that it knowingly allowed con artists to use its operation to swindle U.S. consumers out of millions of dollars.
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Boing Boing:
Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university's program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterprising Wikipedians have assembled a list of several such cats.Colby Nolan is a housecat who was awarded an MBA degree in 2004 b (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers on fraud charges ended on Friday with sharp arguments over the meaning of the word "toast" in one defendant's email about the subprime mortgage market.
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guardian.co.uk Society:
Lucy Mangan on the people in the spotlightIron laddieDavid CameronSo, Dave, how went the week? Did you announce a series of strikingly brilliant policies to sort out the NHS? Innovative solutions for the economic crisis, starting with using George's pocket money to recapitalise Lloyds TSB? No? What did happen then? Nothing? (Read More)
Reuters:
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A British-born Florida yacht broker and former client of Swiss bank UBS AG received a reduced, two-month prison sentence for tax fraud on Friday because he cooperated with a U.S. investigation into the bank.
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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
In a national survey of U.S. CFOs and senior comptrollers conducted by Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, the vast majority (88%) believe that the positions of CEO and chairman of the board should be separate and more than half (52%) report that they would like to be CEO of a compa (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
MONTICELLO, N.Y. — An upstate New York man has been sentenced to six months in jail for hiding his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashing her Social Security checks.Rosland Auslander stuffed Herta Auslander's body in the freezer at their home in the hamlet of Cooks Falls, about 100 miles northwest of New York City (Read More)