With Zero Accountability, Big Oil Wringing Profit from Developing Countries
Published on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer Thanks to...
Read MorePublished on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer Thanks to...
Read Moreby Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Nov. 14, 2014, 3:20 p.m. The U.S. Department of Justice is...
Read MoreBank of America, agreed to pay a fine of $131 million, but did not admit wrongdoing in the deals, which were created at the behest of an Illinois-based hedge fund called Magnetar
Read More“If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate millions in profit and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits, they do not have much incentive to follow the law.”
Read Moreby Theodoric Meyer ProPublica, April 4, 2013, 9 a.m. Judge Victor Marrero last week became the...
Read MoreGoldman had gone from betting $6 billion on mortgages to betting $10 billion against them — a shift of $16 billion. Even CEO Lloyd “I’m doing God’s work” Blankfein wondered aloud about the bank’s progress in “cleaning” its crap. “Could/should we have cleaned up these books before,” Blankfein wrote in one e-mail, “and are we doing enough right now to sell off cats and dogs in other books throughout the division?”
Read MoreUS diplomats doing little more than staying out of photographs while knowing the country they are engaging with is being defrauded by a US citizen, one has to ask, why are we there?
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