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Soccer's Ultimate Con Man Was a Superstar Who Couldn't Play the Game
How does an athlete without athletic prowess maintain a 20-year career? Brazilian soccer star Carlos Kaiser had it all: exclusive contracts with popular teams, money, fame, and women. The professional soccer star was only missing one thing: the ability to play soccer. Arguably the greatest con artist in all of sports history, Kaiser (birth name Carlos Henrique Raposo) was able to maintain a career that spanned nearly two decades while playing in as few games as possible and never scoring a goal.
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Wells Fargo's wage theft problem
Wells Fargo's notorious pressure-cooker culture led the bank to force some hourly employees to work late without overtime pay, former workers say. The mandatory overtime took place during "call nights," where workers would call customers to sell them additional products like credit cards in an effort to meet the unrealistic sales goals.
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Leonardo DiCaprio to return any funds linked to Malaysian 1MDB fraud
Leonardo DiCaprio is aiding the investigation into a Malaysian embezzlement scam linked to his hit film The Wolf of Wall Street, according to his spokesperson on Tuesday. The Hollywood star contacted the US justice department in July just after it filed a lawsuit to seize more than US$1bn in allegedly ill-gotten assets tied to Malaysian state investment fund 1MDB, including rights to the film, DiCaprio’s spokesperson said.
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How Donald Trump Used Fine Print To Make It Harder To Sue Wall Street For Fraud
Sued for fraud, the Republican presidential nominee used the fine print to create a permanent legal shield for himself — and financial firms. By David Sirota.
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When Truth Falls Apart
How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact? By Maria Bustillos.
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The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable — Even Under President Trump
Lockheed is now lobbying his transition team. By Robert Beckhusen.
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The Election was Stolen: Here’s How...
Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives. Starting in 2013 — just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act — a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color… By Greg Palast.
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[US] Navy’s most expensive ship ever breaks down in Panama Canal
The Navy’s newest and most technologically advanced guided missile destroyer had to be towed from the Panama Canal after experiencing “engineering issues,” a spokesman for the service said Tuesday in a statement. By Corey Dickstein.
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When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens?
At present, proponents of school choice have the upper hand because they are backed by some of the nation’s richest people, whose campaign donations give them an outsize voice in shaping public policy. The issue that the American public must resolve in local and state as well as national elections is whether voters will preserve and protect the public school system, or allow it to be raided and controlled by the one percent and financial elites. By Diane Ravitch.
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Troubled $29 Billion U.S. Warship Sows Fresh Doubt on Worth
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program “stands at a crossroads,” as the service prepares to ask Congress to authorize spending as much as $14 billion to buy more of the troubled vessels, congressional auditors say. By Anthony Capaccio.
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Wells Fargo Killing Sham Account Suits by Using Arbitration
As the bank reels in the court of public opinion, it has been able to stop lawsuits from defrauded customers by moving the cases to arbitration. By Michael Corkery and Stacy Cowley.
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Locked On The Psych Ward
Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits. By Rosalind Adams.
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Donald Trump Starts a Dogfight With the F-35
The president-elect’s latest morning sortie is against the controversial, budget-busting Joint Strike Fighter, but he may be too late to stop it. By David A. Graham.
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A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
A reporter’s credit card was stolen, so he counted all the video cameras in stores where it was used afterward. And then he included the data from the Uber rides. By Quentin Hardy.
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Treasury Nominee Steve Mnuchin’s Bank Accused of “Widespread Misconduct” in Leaked Memo
OneWest Bank repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws, according to a previously undisclosed 2013 memo from top state prosecutors. By David Dayen.
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The Massive Election-Rigging Scandal the Media Ignored
Republicans denied seven million their right to vote, and no one seems to care. By Thom Hartmann, Richard Greene.
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Nobel Laureate Takes on Purdue Pharma and OxyContin as a Corporate Fraud
At the recent 2017 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meeting in Chicago, Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton described the American healthcare system as “optimally designed for rent-seeking and very poorly designed to improve people’s health…” By Maureen Meehan.
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The F-35 Amazingly Has Even More Problems Than We Thought
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive military program in the world with a total cost of more than $1 trillion. Now, a new Pentagon report suggests that the futuristic fighter jet still has hundreds of deficiencies and won’t be ready for ready for full combat testing until 2019. By Michael Nunez.
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Woman Who Made $1M in Designer Handbag Scheme Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
Praepitcha Smatsorabudh, a woman who made more than $1 million in a multi-year scheme in which she purchased designer purses from department stores, then returned counterfeit versions to get her money back, has been sentenced to over two years in prison.
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Woman who told specialist she couldn't move her leg loses €60k claim after being videoed jogging
On the day a mother of two told a consultant she could not move her right leg and ankle and had serious back pain, a private investigator videoed her jogging across a Dublin street, the Circuit Civil court has been told. Circuit Court President, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, said that Stephen Bothma, of Core Group Investigations, had also videod Esther Lamidi getting into her car without “any bother or restriction of movement.”
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