Facebook hired a PR firm that attempted to discredit the company’s critics by claiming they were agents of the billionaire George Soros, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Soros is a Jewish philanthropist who is the frequent subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories. At the same time, the social media company urged the Anti-Defamation League to object to a cartoon used by anti-Facebook protesters over its resemblance to antisemitic tropes.

Sweet, wide-eyed Mark Zuckerberg swears he didn’t know anything. The Facebook CEO was shocked and appalled at the conduct of his company, he told reporters on a conference call Thursday, responding to a bombshell New York Times report that Facebook hired a D.C. opposition research firm called Definers Public Affairs which proceeded to undertake all manner of ethically fraught actions on its behalf.

Billions in illicit funds flowed through accounts held at Danske Bank’s branch in tiny Estonia. One employee dug into the details and tried to alert his superiors at headquarters. The resulting scandal cut the bank’s value in half, cost the CEO his job and prompted a new round of soul-searching.

Family members of Russia’s President Putin and FSB, the Russian intelligence service, were allegedly behind efforts to launder money through Denmark’s biggest bank, claims a whistleblower who alerted top management at Danske Bank in 2013. This information, which has only now come to light, indicates that top management was aware of far more serious conditions than the bank has previously indicated.

The National goes undercover to investigate some of Apple's controversial business practices including allegations of overpriced repair charges and the battery/slowdown scandal.

Danske Bank, Denmark's largest lender, has found itself at the centre of one of the world's biggest money-laundering scandals. EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova has described the $235bn of suspicious transactions as "the biggest scandal we have now in Europe". Here's how it unfolded...

Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state’s registration rolls, an investigation charges. Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved – but they actually still live at the address where they are registered.

Finally, the madness has taken its name: Winkgate. The gate opened when Australia’s prime minister, who has recently bungled his way from one scandal to the next, took a call from a listener on a radio show that was filmed.

Chicago's red light camera scandal deepened Wednesday with the federal indictment of a former Redflex Traffic Systems CEO on charges she and a top City Hall manager conspired to rig the camera business for a decade.

The public break between the CBC and Jian Ghomeshi, Canada’s best-loved radio host since Peter Gzowski, started last week with a discreet announcement that he was taking a leave from the broadcaster for personal reasons, days after the death of his father, with a reassurance that the mop-haired former rockstar was “okay.”

Chinese consumers are used to food safety scandals, from toxic heavy metals in their rice to cooking oil scraped up from the gutter. After those outrages, they might be grateful for some good old-fashioned painkillers in their soup.

Documents and expert opinion show there may be more to a single-vehicle wreck involving Mesa's police chief than he's ever disclosed. The dispatch log from the incident is missing nearly 40 pages and the official report includes no photographs, nor any record of any eyewitness account despite evidence of at least one witness coming forward.

In a televised address, the Duke of York said he wished to 'reiterate the denials of wrongdoing' issued by Buckingham Palace on his behalf.

Revising Old Hollywood’s Greatest Scandal. By Anne Helen Petersen.

Toshiba's president and CEO Hisao Tanaka is stepping down after an investigative panel found that company executives were complicit in misreported earnings. The independent report said that Toshiba had exaggerated its operating profit by ¥151.8 billion ($1.2 billion) over the past six years. Vice chairman and former CEO Norio Sasaki is also out, and current chairman Masashi Muromachi will take over the role of interim CEO from tomorrow.

The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated

And yet somehow, the world's oldest profession survives.

Busted.

James Robb Taylor, 38, who owns Perkins Livestock Sales, was arrested on Tuesday for embezzling nearly a half-million dollars worth of cattle from his own operation.

Volkswagen says 11 million vehicles worldwide are involved in the scandal that has erupted over its rigging of US car emissions tests. It said it was setting aside €6.5bn (£4.7bn) to cover costs of the scandal. VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn issued a fresh apology for the test-rigging, saying he was "endlessly sorry" for the "manipulation". Earlier, the boss of Volkswagen's US business, Michael Horn, admitted the firm "totally screwed up".

Volkswagen has hired the US law firm that defended BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to help it deal with a growing collection of investigations and law suits over the emissions scandal that has rocked the car maker and dragged in the German government. The hiring of Kirkland & Ellis emerged as the German government admitted that it already knew about “defeat devices” that can cheat emissions tests.

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and green technology wizard, thinks gasoline and diesel fuel are dead. Musk was addressing a room full of Flemish and Belgian reporters when one asked him to weigh in on the recent Volkswagen scandal, in which the company rigged its cars to fraudulently pass emissions tests. The reporter asked if he was worried it would cause people to “lose their faith” in green technology. “I think it’s the opposite,” Musk replied.

Country halts sale of VWs in the Euro5 class, which contains bulk of vehicles said to have defeat devices, which mask true emissions.

Atmospheric levels of a little known by-product from diesel engines are up 70 times higher than expected according to a study. Researchers found that long-chain hydrocarbons are significantly under-reported in car manufacturer's data. These hydrocarbons are a key component of two of the worst air pollutants, ozone and particulate matter.

A Volkswagen engineer warned the company about cheating over its emission tests as early as 2011, a German newspaper reports. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung says the warning emerged during VW's current investigation into the scandal. Separately, Bild am Sonntag said the internal inquiry had found that parts supplier Bosch had warned Volkswagen not to use its software illegally.

Volkswagen was recently brought to its knees when scientists discovered the company had installed a device in its diesel-powered cars to fool emissions tests. Its stock price tanked, its reputation has been damaged and its CEO resigned on Wednesday. So who made the discovery that sent the German car giant into a tailspin? A group of scientists at West Virginia University.

The EPA says Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests on more diesel cars than previously believed. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a second notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act to the automaker, covering about 10,000 model year 2014 diesel cars sold in the U.S. In addition, the notice covers an unknown volume of 2016 vehicles. The cars all have 3.0-liter engines. Here’s more from the agency...

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Several Volkswagen engineers have admitted manipulating carbon dioxide emissions data, saying the ambitious goals set by former Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn were difficult to achieve, Bild am Sonntag reported. The paper said VW engineers tampered with tyre pressure and mixed diesel with their motor oil to make them use less fuel, a deception that began in 2013 and carried on until the spring of this year.

A laboratory test carried out for BBC Panorama shows that Volkswagen diesel cars programmed with a "defeat device" can cheat official European pollution tests, as well as tests in the US. The company told the BBC it believes this is the first time the cheating software has been filmed in action. VW has admitted it used the device to rig tighter pollution tests in America. But it's been more ambiguous about whether it used the same tactics to actively cheat official European tests.

Volkswagen said U.S. sales plunged 25% in November in the wake of the German automaker's massive emissions cheating scandal. The company admitted in September that most of its diesel cars in the U.S. had software that allowed it to pass emissions tests, even though the cars dumped 40 times the allowed levels of pollutants into the atmosphere. The EPA ordered it to stop selling those cars in the U.S.

Why fix part of a problem when you could address the underlying issue instead? In an open letter, the group urged California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols to have VW "cure the air, not the cars." Instead of requiring the German automaker to attempt to recall and fix all of the 85,000 diesel vehicles it sold with software designed to cheat emissions tests -- a solution they label "costly," "impractical" and generally inefficient -- Musk and company propose California allocate...

Volkswagen will offer generous compensation packages to the roughly 600,000 U.S. owners of diesel vehicles whose emissions are over the legal limit, the head of its claims fund told a German paper. The German car maker has still not decided whether vehicle owners will be offered cash, car buy-backs, repairs or replacement cars, Kenneth Feinberg told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Feinberg previously headed...

Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to federal investigators, a stunning reversal for the longtime law enforcement leader who for years insisted he played no role in the misconduct that tarnished his agency. Baca’s plea in a downtown courtroom capped a string of prosecutions that began with low-ranking officials and worked up the chain of command. His former No. 2, Paul Tanaka, is scheduled to stand trial...

Goldman Sachs’ cozy relationship with the Malaysian government is coming back to haunt the firm and one of its regional chairmen. The fallout from the widening scandal hitting the white-shoe investment bank involves Tim Leissner, the Singapore-based chairman of Goldman’s Southeast Asia operations, who has left that country and relocated to Los Angeles on a leave of absence from the firm. A state fund — 1Malaysia Development Berhad...