NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100 The Associated Press Haddock died Tuesday night of chronic respiratory illness at her home in Dublin, NH, said spokeswoman and family friend Maude Salinger. … and more
New York Daily News Madoff Victims Join Stanford Investors to Lobby for Payback BusinessWeek … banding together to lobby Congress for a law that could require Wall Street firms to pay billions of dollars to cover some of the losses they suffered. … Scam on scam LA Observed (blog) Bogus site targets Madoff victims, agency says Reuters all 229 news articles
Bank of America said it would eliminate overdraft fees for debit card customers in a move designed to quell consumer frustration and keep the bank a step ahead of new regulations that restrict such charges
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KOMO News Scammers profile their targets KOMO News Preoccupied with losing your home to foreclosure? Many of those ads you see promising a solution- are simply scams in disguise.. “What they're trying to do …
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Fresh on the heels of a snow job where Bernanke warned economists to disregard effects that did not happen (and anyone doing any semblance of research should have known would not happen) we now see media trumpeting up census hiring as if it was not temporary. In case you missed the snow job analysis please see … Range of Snow Impact on Jobs: Negligible to 220,000; Have Your Snow Job Decoder Ring Handy? Jobs Contract By 36,000; Unemployment Rate Steady At 9.7%; No Snow Effect Having …
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These losses have been localized in the agencies’ mortgage-backed securities portfolios, built up around 2006-2007 at the height of the housing boom, and consisting of thousands of “non-qualifying” mortgages that Fannie and Freddie based … The Attorney General seems to have no interest in this gold mine of prosecutable information, and no task force of lawyers and FBI agents has been set up in Washington to look into this cesspool of fraud , deceit, malfeasance, bribery, …
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Boston Globe Lawrence ed chief indicted for fraud , embezzlement Daily Comet According to the indictments, Laboy had school personnel do work at his home and run errands on his behalf while the employees were on school time. … School Superintendent Indicted On Fraud Charges WCVB-TV Lawrence Supt. Wilfredo Laboy charged with fraud , embezzlement Boston Herald Lawrence school superintendent indicted Boston Globe Eagle Tribune all 10 news articles
New York Daily News Scam on scam LA Observed (blog) The Securities Investor Protection Corporation, which provides limited protection to customers of failed Wall Street firms, sent out a press release warning … Bogus site targets Madoff victims, agency says Reuters all 226 news articles
Apollo Management has signed a preliminary agreement to buy Citigroup’s property investment unit in a deal that would give Leon Black’s private equity firm a far bigger presence globally, people familiar with the matter say
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Contractor sent to prison for elder fraud San Antonio Express The district attorney's elder fraud unit began investigating Hardin after he was accused of doing minimal work after receiving large down payments for … and more
Senators in the banking committee have agreed in principle to a partially pre-funded ‘resolution authority’ to wind down a failing bank holding company, favouring a structure that would levy a $50bn charge on the industry
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Chinese lawyers file a complaint on behalf of more than 170 consumers against Hewlett-Packard, asking the government’s quality watchdog to order a recall of allegedly faulty notebook computers
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The pharmaceutical group has agreed a deal to establish a joint venture with Merck which will be the world’s largest animal health business
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Yields on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage securities fell to record lows. Trulia reports that 19 percent of homes had a price reduction last month. Real estate appraisers claim that Obama’s new foreclosure program encourages fraud . …
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New: Search Oregon consumer complaints online KTVZ In reality, these companies do little to help save the home and leave the homeowner in a worse economic predicament. The 2008 Oregon Mortgage Rescue Fraud …
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MySpace will be relaunched in phases over the coming months, its new co-chief executives have revealed after a difficult period that has seen the site’s market share drop as users migrated to other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
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The troubled car and home lender said that Robert S. Hull would leave the company at the end of the month, creating uncertainty at GMAC as it tries to repay billions in taxpayer aid
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Europe risks building a protectionist wall between itself and the global private equity industry if plans for a sweeping overhaul of regulation in the sector go ahead, some of the world’s biggest institutional investors have warned
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Investors embrace restraint and lower expectations after infamous failures
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US regulators have told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares until political and economic uncertainty surrounding the industry dissipates, in a move that will delay by months the return of capital to shareholders
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CFTC Chair Gary Gensler Address to Markit OTC Derivatives Markets Conference Wall Street Journal (blog) They also contributed to weak underwriting standards, particularly for asset securitizations, when investors and Wall Street allowed CDS to stand in for … and more
Boston Globe School Superintendent Indicted On Fraud Charges WCVB-TV Laboy is accused of having school personnel do work at his home and complete errands for him while they were on school time and being compensated by the … Lawrence Supt. Wilfredo Laboy charged with fraud , embezzlement Boston Herald Lawrence school superintendent indicted Boston Globe all 9 news articles
The Business Insider Wall Street Investment Bankers Inc. Isn't Licensed To Do Much Of Anything The Business Insider Wall Street Investment Bankers Inc. — a real estate investment business that promises between $20000 and $200000 a month with “no upfront or investment …
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Police: Swindlers posing as sweethearts Gaston Gazette Police are alerting local residents to an upswing in online dating and work-from-home financial scams . Williams said up to 10 new cases are reported each … and more
The UK banking group is looking at buying a large US retail bank as it tries to rebalance its business away from a booming investment banking franchise
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The Business Insider Limo driver-turned-hedge fund fraudster admits guilt Crain’s New York Business Ukrainian immigrant who drove around Wall Street bankers figured that he, too, could get in on the action. Turned out he ran a $20 million scam . … Limo Driver-Cum-Fake Hedge Fund Manager Pleads Guilty DealBreaker.Com (blog) all 14 news articles
The group’s decision to withdraw from the US Air Force tender could be the first in a series of changes that will reshape the defence contractor’s culture and business
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Short sales are “tailor-made for fraud ,” said Mr. Lawler, a former executive at the mortgage finance company Fannie Mae. Last year, short sales started to increase, although they remain relatively uncommon. …
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The some of the market’s wounded horsemen are on the ride again. Around 1 pm shares and activity of AIG burst higher. Shares of Fannie and Freddie soon followed. … Citibank is in for the same ride it has taken its shareholders with all the fraud . The horseman has gone for a ride but has fall off and will not get up. Millions of law suits are being filed against Citibank for Fraud . Citibank stock has gone from $58 a share to under a buck and shareholders have lost over …
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB), a global leader in education technology, today announced that it has been positioned in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems, an influential report evaluating the completeness of vision and ability to execute of vendors in the market. Blackboard has seen significant growth in the corporate learning space where an increasing number of corporations of all sizes have adopted the company’s teaching and learning platform to deploy training programs efficiently and cost effectively. In the Magic Quadrant report, Gartner “evaluates vendors based on their ability to articulate current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs and competitive forces.” The report notes that, “In 2009, we evaluated Corporate Learning System vendors for comprehensiveness of their offering. Those that presented more effective components and capabilities generally improved in the areas of analytics, learner ease-of-use and support for structured social and informal learning. The social learning platform has emerged as a key component.”(1) Read more.
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A row between the US and Europe over protectionism is brewing after the US’s Northrop Grumman and EADS, the Franco-German aerospace and defence group, pulls out of a $50bn military tender amid accusations of unfair competition
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Gastonia man learns his online girlfriend was a South African scammer Gaston Gazette Police are alerting local residents to an upswing in online dating and work-from-home financial scams . Williams said up to 10 new cases are reported each …
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LifeLock to pay $12M to settle deceptive-ad claims Chicago Sun-Times LifeLock works by placing a fraud alert on consumer's credit report. But that doesn't protect consumers from having their credit card cloned or from any … and more
New York Daily News Bogus site targets Madoff victims, agency says Reuters … serving a 150-year prison sentence after pleading guilty a year ago to orchestrating Wall Street's biggest investment fraud of as much as $65 billion. … CAUTION: SIPC Impostor Luring Madoff Victims Benzinga all 217 news articles
Low cost living in sunny FL. Only owner occupant buyers allowed within the first 15 days on market. Misrepresenting intended use is fraud . This is a Fannie Mae HomePath property; purchase this property for as little as 3% down! …
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In my post San Francisco Infested with Union Parasites and Pestilence; Outrage Over Transit Worker Pay I noted how greedy public unions finally overplayed their hand by rejecting an 8% pay raise with a contract that guarantees they get the second highest pay in the nation. In a followup story, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is now going ahead with his initiative to address Muni pay, because the city council wimps did not have the courage or the decency to take on the unions. Please consider …
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Gensler talks on OTC reform Futures Magazine They also contributed to weak underwriting standards, particularly for asset securitizations, when investors and Wall Street allowed CDS to stand in for … CFTC Gensler:Repeats Calls For Energy Futrs, OTC Regulation-2 Market News International CFTC, FERC fight over role in electricity markets Reuters all 13 news articles
The US carmaker says it is studying a proposal from its Belgian employees to keep its Antwerp plant open to build vehicles on contract for other carmakers
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Court Appearance for Chelsea King Suspect NBC San Diego He was charged with three counts of forcible lewd act upon a child and one count of false Imprisonment by violence, menace, fraud or deceit. … and more
New York Daily News Study: Few New Yorkers Fall For Scams Gothamist Also common are work -at- home or fee-for-employment hustles. “They say, 'Send us $100 or $200 and we'll get you a job.' Or 'Send us money for this at- home … Federal Trade Commission statistics show New Yorkers among least likely to be … New York Daily News all 3 news articles
Chevron, the US’ second biggest oil company, said it will cut a further 2,000 positions in its refining and marketing division as it reduces its global downstream workforce by 3,900 employees or about 20 per cent over two years
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Today, Franklin Raines, then CEO at the time the fraud was committed enjoys a nice peaceful life, living off millions he received during his years turning Fannie Mae into a weapon of mass economic destruction. …
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Obvious problems were reported back in 2004 when the FBI issued a report discussed massive mortgage fraud that would lead to big problems. By 2005, Fannie Mae was found guilty of accounting fraud of nearly $11 billion, but Washington …
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Economist Thomas Lawler, for instance, contended that short sales can be easily used to carry out fraud . Lawler, a former top executive at Fannie Mae, questioned how the lenders can determine whether a homeowner is really troubled or …
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Beware of this scam . Seems to have hit Tallahassee too. 5) Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Needs a Good Flipping – NAR has their ideas for reforming Fannie and Freddie. What I don’t understand is how an organization I usually agree with in …
The Daily Docket: More Creditors Back General Growth Plan Wall Street Journal (blog) … Capital Management and Pershing Square Capital Management LP to help fund its exit from bankruptcy protection, The Wall Street Journal reports. … and more
By 2005, Fannie Mae was found guilty of accounting fraud of nearly $11 billion, but Washington paid no attention. It was business as usual. Alan Greenspan continued to fuel the fire by encouraging homebuyers refinance with ARMs, …
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French and US pharmaceutical groups agree to join their animal health operations, creating a joint venture with nearly $5.3bn in annual sales
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Iraqis talk about poll results as life returns to normal Xinhua Abu Ahmed, 65, agreed with Ali, but he told Xinhua that he is afraid of any fraud in the counting of ballots. Abu Abdullah, 63, said “We will not get the … and more
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