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Whistleblower claims accountants turned a blind eye to Dubai firm he says painted 5 tons of gold to look like silver
Big Four consulting firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) has been accused of "unlawful, unprofessional, and unethical" behaviour relating to its audit of a Dubai gold company accused of money laundering and buying gold from conflict zones. The allegations were made in documents, seen by the Guardian, filed in the high court by lawyers acting for Amjad Rihan, a former E&Y partner who blew the whistle on the alleged scandal in 2014.
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Of course a mystery website attacking city-run broadband was run by an ISP. Of course
Analysis Cable biz Fidelity Communications has been forced to admit it was behind an astroturfing campaign against a city-run fiber network in America's Midwest. The campaign, titled Stop City-Funded Internet, started last month with a website and accompanying social media handles, and has been a persistent critic of efforts by West Plains, Missouri, to expand its homegrown broadband network to include more businesses and even residential customers.
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Trump’s Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages
President Trump promised that his tax cut would encourage companies to invest in factories, workers and wages, setting off a spending spree that would reinvigorate the American economy. Companies have announced plans for some of those investments. But so far, companies are using much of the money for something with a more narrow benefit: buying their own shares.
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Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
Even after eight years of economic recovery and steady private-sector job growth, wages for most Americans have hardly budged. It is tempting to think that wage stagnation is intractable, a result of long-term trends, like automation and globalization, that government is powerless to do anything about.
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Coca-Cola, Nestle seek to privatize world's second largest aquifer
Coca-Cola and Nestle are pushing to take ownership of the Guarani Aquifer in Brazil. Named for the indigenous Guarani people, the world’s second largest aquifer lies beneath parts of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina – and it may soon fall under private corporate control. According to Correio do Brasil, private meetings between the multinational corporations and representatives of Brazil’s government...
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Small Quebec village, sued for trying to protect its drinking water, wins legal battle
A small Quebec town that was facing a $1-million lawsuit from an oil-and-gas exploration company for trying to protect its own water has won its court battle and could see half of its legal fees reimbursed by the Montreal-based company. The municipality of Ristigouche-Sud-Est has been waiting on this decision from Quebec's Superior Court since August 2013, when Gastem sued the municipality of 157 people.
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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent
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Automakers went to incredible lengths to convince the EPA to roll back fuel standards
For two years, Margo Oge met with auto manufacturers almost daily, trying to forge a landmark deal to combat air pollution. With her team at the US Environmental Protection Agency, other government officials and engineers from 15 automakers, she pored over proprietary data and hashed out which fuel-economy standards would be achievable. Trade associations and companies’ Washington lobbyists were not invited. When firms argued something wasn’t possible, the EPA pushed back, demanding evidence.
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In Racine County, neatly maintained homes and dream houses are being designated ‘blighted’ to make way for Foxconn
On the evening of March 20 a full room of Racine County residents assembled to make and hear public statements before the board of the Community Development Authority of Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. One item was on the agenda: the board’s first step in the designation of some 3,000 acres of agricultural land, farm houses and scattered, neatly maintained single-family homes as “blighted.”
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U.S. airlines pocketed $15.5 billion last year, including a record $4.6 billion in bag fees
The good times for the nation's airlines continued last year, with the country's largest carriers reporting a combined profit of $15.5 billion, including $4.6 billion from baggage fees. The 23 largest airlines reported a combined after-tax profit for the fifth consecutive year, representing a strong rebound from nearly a decade of losses following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the economic recession that followed, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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A dying mother's plea for her life
All Erika Zak wants to do is play with her daughter on the playground. Take her to the zoo. Walk her to school. She's never been able to be the mother she longs to be. At 38, Erika is dying.
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Keith Ellison releases study showing CEOs average 339 times median worker's salary
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Wednesday released a study that found CEOs in the United States, on average, are paid 339 times more than their workers. Ellison said the report, which includes data on nearly 14 million workers at 225 American companies, paints a dire picture of pay disparities in the U.S. For example, at 188 out of the 225 companies analyzed, a single CEO's salary could be used to pay more than 100 workers.
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When covering up a crime takes precedence over human health: BP’s toxic Gulf Coast legacy
On April 20, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Over the next 87 days, it gushed at least 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst human-made environmental disaster in US history and afflicting the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
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Harley Davidson is shutting down a US factory and moving jobs to Bangkok after cashing in on Trump's tax cut
Despite President Donald Trump’s claim that massive tax cuts will boost U.S. employment numbers, motorcycle manufacturer Harley Davidson instead announced a plant closing, followed by a massive stock buy-back and is now shifting some jobs to Thailand. In a deep dive into happenings at the Milwaukee-based manufacturer of highly-coveted motorcycles, Vox discovered employees and union leaders who believe that they were betrayed by the company which prides itself on its reputation for American-built products.
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Amazon CEO Bezos is Knowingly Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods, According to Report
There is little doubt that Seattle, WA-based online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a titan in the world of commerce and its effects on the world of e-commerce have had a definite effect even on brick-and-mortar retailers. Online merchandise sale analysis released last year by market research firm eMarketer indicated that Amazon’s share of the U.S. e-commerce market was expected to rise from 38.1 percent of U.S. online retail sales in 2016 up to 43.5 percent of U.S. e-commerce by the end of 2017.
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AT&T Slipped an Extra $1.23 Onto Your Wireless Bill, and It Stands to Make a Fortune
Earlier this week, former employees called out AT&T for unethical business practices that pushed customers to sign up for various streaming TV packages, sometimes without their knowledge or explicit consent. But now, it seems things may have gotten even worse thanks to a sneaky tactic that could allow AT&T to rake in an extra $800 million a year.
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Fed up villagers install fast broadband
Villagers who could not download films because of slow broadband speeds take matters into their own hands.
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Women awarded $4.7bn in talc cancer case
It is the largest payout over allegations that Johnson & Johnson's talc-based products cause cancer.
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Facebook won't ban Infowars in its fake-news purge — a site that says 9/11 was staged and the moon landing was fake
Facebook on Wednesday drew scrutiny for allowing the conspiracy-theory website Infowars to operate a page on its platform just as the social network was trying to promote its efforts in dealing with intentionally false or misleading news.
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Report: Fossil Fuel Industries - The Goliath of Climate-Related Lobbying Efforts, Spent Billions
The fossil fuel, utilities and transportation sectors are known for speaking as little as possible on the subject of climate change impact– however, they sure will put their money where their mouth is when it comes to lobbying for climate change legislation. For the first time, a Drexel University researcher analyzed lobbying data, finding that these sectors out-lobbied environmental organizations and alternative energy corporations, both proponents of emissions regulation.
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