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Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
Barack Obama's former top cop cashes in after six years of letting banks run wild. By Matt Taibbi.
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Where Are Mexico’s ‘Dead’ Doctors? Families Fear a Cover-Up Like Iguala
Charges of another tainted investigation in a high-profile kidnapping case threaten the government’s credibility—in the state where 43 student teachers went missing.
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Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to MasterCard on cross-border rules and inter-regional interchange fees
The Statement of Objections outlines the Commission's preliminary view that MasterCard's rules prevent banks from offering lower interchange fees to retailers based in another Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA), where interchange fees may be higher. As a result, retailers cannot benefit from lower fees elsewhere and competition between banks cross-border may be restricted, in breach of European antitrust rules.
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Senate Passes Bill Letting Schools Give Education Money To Financial Consulting Firms
The U.S. Senate quietly passed a bill on Wednesday that lets public education money for low-income kids flow to financial consulting firms. By David Sirota,Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez.
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Why Did ‘Frontline’ Kill Lowell Bergman’s Gambling Documentary?
Recriminations and accusations are flying after the PBS series shelved veteran reporter Lowell Bergman’s documentary about the gambling industry in Macau.
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Nuclear weapons lab lobbied with federal funds to block competition for lucrative contract
Report peels back part of the veil surrounding a defense corporation’s “capture strategy” for the Obama administration
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It’s bold, but legal: How campaigns and their super PAC backers work together
Candidates have plenty of latitude to work with big-money allies — and they’re pushing the limits in 2016. By By Matea Gold.
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State Attorneys General Line Up Behind Jim Hood, Support Power To Attack Enemies Of Big Corporate Donors
A large group of state Attorney Generals has now stepped into the legal fight between Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Google. As we've explained a bunch, Hood went after Google with an investigation and detailed subpoena that was funded and written by the MPAA itself...
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Malaysian Anticorruption Body to Look Into Flow of Money to Najib Razak
Malaysia’s anticorruption agency will look into a report in The Wall Street Journal that investigators have traced nearly $700 million of deposits into what they believe are the personal bank accounts of Malaysia’s prime minister.
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Why Is Everyone Angry? I’ll Tell You Why.
This is a short essay on voter anger: its origin, its attributes, its meaning and its cure. Hint: most Americans are worse off than they were a long time ago.
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Investigators Believe Money Flowed to Malaysian Leader Najib’s Accounts Amid 1MDB Probe
Malaysian investigators scrutinizing government investment fund 1MDB have traced nearly $700 million of deposits into what they believe are the personal bank accounts of Prime Minister Najib Razak, according to documents from a government probe.
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Honduras under Occupation - murders, land grabs, and Hillary Clinton’s ‘hard choices’
Honduras has endured six years of violence and land grabs after the 2009 US-backed military coup made the country a playground for Hillary Clinton's billionaire friends, write Eric Draitser & Ramiro S. Fúnez - and a hell for the country’s indigenous and small scale farming communities, whose leaders are routinely murdered with impunity by US-trained forces.
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Whistle-blower: How doctor uncovered nightmare
Dr. Soe Maunglay's discovery of his employer Dr. Farid Fata's web of deceit and medical fraud would unleash a federal investigation. The result would save lives and collapse the medical empire of the long-esteemed oncologist, now awaiting sentencing in federal court.
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AFL-CIO leader tries to quell pro-Sanders revolt
The labor federation’s rules don’t allow its state and local leaders to endorse presidential candidates, Richard Trumka says as the Vermont senator surges.
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[Texas] Attorney General Paxton could face first-degree felony case
The criminal investigation against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken a more serious turn, with special prosecutors now planning to present a first-degree felony securities fraud case against him to a Collin County grand jury...
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[Oklahoma, Tulsa County] Sheriff’s office trips include $500-per-night resort, $36 valet fee
The Frontier reviewed travel claims by Glanz’s office and found numerous questionable expenses and a few potential violations of the county’s travel policy.
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License To Launder: Cash, Cops and the Cartels
It began in a trailer in the shadows of one of Florida's most elegant malls, a brazen plan by two small police agencies to take on the hemisphere's most dangerous drug cartels. Forming their own task force, members of the Bal Harbour police and Glades County Sheriff's Office struck deals with criminal organizations across the country in what grew into the largest state undercover money-laundering investigation in years.
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Chicago Pension Investments: Rahm Emanuel’s Proposed Merger Could Benefit Campaign Donors
Chicago's mayor says merging state pension funds will solve his city's education funding crisis, but it also directs funds to campaign donors. By Matthew Cunningham-Cook and David Sirota.
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Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal
Is the White House going to bat for Big Pharma worldwide? By Michael Grunwald.
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How The Metropolitan Police Covered-Up For Rupert Murdoch’s News International
A Bellingcat and Byline investigation can for the first time reveal Scotland Yard had intelligence Mazher Mahmood was corrupting police officers as far back as the summer of 2000...
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