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Judge Rules Billionaire Can't Blame Bank For His Own Tax Evasion

Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Fraud, Ubs, Video, Judge Andrew Guilford, Internal Revenue Service, Swiss Bank Accounts, Reuters, Swiss Banks, Property Developer, Tax Dodging, Tax Evasion, Forbes, Offshore Accounts, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

* Judge dismisses case a month before trial * Former client tried to blame Swiss bank By Lynnley Browning ...

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Swiss Bank Charged By U.S. For Helping Americans Evade Taxes

AP | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: St. Gallen, Taxes, Wegelin & Co., Video, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Raiffeisen Group, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department says it has indicted Switzerland's oldest private bank, claiming it conspired with Americans and others to h...

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DOJ Taps NY Firm To Audit Billions Of Dollars In Claims From BP Spill

AP | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Bp Oil Spill Claims, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Video, BP Compensation, Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Thomas Perrelli, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Bp-Oil-Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The U.S. Justice Department has tapped New York-based BDO Consulting to audit the handling of billions of dollars in damage claims...

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America's Justice System Has Failed Us All

Conrad Black | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Justice System, Libel, US Justice Department, Plea Bargains, America's Justice System, Crime News

The unfairness, hypocrisy, and barbarism of the American criminal justice system is increasingly the subject of serious comment. Indeed, almost everything about the American system is wrong.

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Alabama Attorney General Rebuffs Fed's "Express Authority" In School Immigrant Probe

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Luther Strange, Assistant-US-Attorney-General-Thomas-Perez, Alabama Public Schools, Public School Enrollment, Undocumented Immigrants, School Enrollment, Undocumented Students, Equal Access to Public Education, Alabama Schools, Alabama Undocumented Students, US Justice Department, Alabama Immigration, Video, US Department of Justice, Equal Access, Alabama Immigration Law, Thomas Perez, Education News

In the latest of a series of sparring letters between the U.S. Justice Department and Alabama over educational issues surrounding the state's new immi...

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Suburban School District To Pay Back Muslim Teacher Denied Hajj Leave

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Muslim Teacher Hajj Lawsuit, Islam, Safoorah Khan Lawsuit, Saudi Arabia Hajj, Muslim Teacher, Rush Limbaugh, McArthur Middle School, Muslim Americans, Hajj, Berkeley School District 87 Lawsuit, Lindsey Graham, Muslim, Berkeley School District 87, Safoorah Khan, Safoorah Khan Teacher, U.S. Justice Department, Chicago News

A suburban Chicago school district sued by the U.S. Justice Department over their previous refusal to allow a Muslim teacher to take a pilgrimage to M...

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Swiss Bank Chair Regrets Taking On U.S. Clients After Tax Spat

AP | By FRANK JORDANS | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Bank Regulation, Video, Swiss Bank, Credit Suisse Group, Basler Zeitung, Asset Manager, Zurich, Tax Evasion, Basler Kantonalbank, UBS AG, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

GENEVA -- The chairman of a Swiss regional bank caught up in a fresh tax evasion spat between the United States and Switzerland says he regrets taking...

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S&P Facing Justice Department Probe Over Improper Mortgage Ratings

AP | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Video, Ratings Agency, u.s. Downgrade, Mortgage-Abuses, Mortgage Securities, Standard and Poors, Business News, Mortgage Crisis, Standard & Poor's, Financial Crisis, Business, Standard and Poors Investigiation, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is investigating whether the Standard & Poor's credit ratings agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securiti...

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Ex-Banker Charged With Helping Wealthy Americans Evade Taxes

Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Ubs, Martin Lack, Credit Suisse AG, Lack & Partner AG, Basler Kantonalbank, Tax Evasion, Corporate Fraud, Raoul Weil, Keusch & Merlo Invest AG, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Lynnley Browning) - A former senior UBS private banker was indicted by the United States Tuesday for selling offshore tax-evasio...

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Credit Suisse Targeted In U.S. Tax Evasion Probe

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Switzerland, Credit Suisse Group, Credit Suisse, US Authorities, Swiss Banks, Tax Evaders, Swiss Taxes, Tax Evasion, US Justice Department, Offshort Business, Business News

GENEVA — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Credit Suisse Group's offshore business with wealthy American clients as part of a larger ...

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Arizona Sues U.S. Justice Department Over Medical Marijuana Law

AP | By PAUL DAVENPORT | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Lincoln Chafee, Marijuana, Chris Gregoire, Medical Marijuana, Rhode Island, Arizona, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Justice Department, US Justice Department, Arizona Medical Marijuana, Jan Brewer, Washington, Tom Horne, Dennis Burke, Marijuana Policy Project, Politics News

PHOENIX -- Arizona officials are taking the state's own medical marijuana law to court. Attorney General Tom Horne late Friday sued the U.S. Justice ...

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Shell, Panalpina Near Settlement In Bribery Case, Sources Say

Wall Street Journal | Kara Scannell And Thomas Catan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shell, US Justice Department, Schlumberger, Settlements, Royal Dutch Shell, Bribery Case Panalpina, Business News

A big Swiss shipping and logistics company and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, one of its customers, are close to settling foreign-bribery charges stemming fr...

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How the Broken Public Defense System Exacerbates Racial Disparities

Elizabeth Renter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indigent Defense System, Racial Disparities, 6th Amendment, Criminal Justice, Public Defense, Prison, Institutional Racism, U.S. Justice Department, Politics News

It seems that under the current disjointed system, equal protection under the law and due process are only accessible to those who can afford a private attorney.

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Karzai Seeks To Limit Role Of U.S. Corruption Investigators

washingtonpost.com | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bribery, Anti-Corruption Investigations, Afghan War, US Anti-Corruption Investigations, Afghanistan, Corruption, US Justice Department, World News

Afghan President Hamid Karzai intends to impose rules restricting international involvement in anti-corruption investigations, a move that U.S. offici...

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Cochlear Manufacturer

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cochlear Implant, Denver Colorado, U.S. Justice Department, Denver News

DENVER — A manufacturer of Cochlear implants has agreed to pay $880,000 to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to ...

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Hutaree Militia Case: Judge Agrees To Delay Release Of Militia Members

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judge Victoria Roberts, Hutaree, Michigan Militia, US Justice Department, Michigan Militia Case, Hutaree Militia, Detroit, Domestic Terrorism, Chicago News

DETROIT — Federal authorities touted the arrests of nine members of a Michigan militia as a pre-emptive strike against homegrown terrorists, dec...

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Mr. President, Protect the Rights of Children

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Education Reform, Southern Poverty Law Center, Children's Rights, Children, Civil Rights, US Justice Department, Politics News

I'd like to remind the president of one area that often gets overlooked - the responsibility to protect the rights of our most vulnerable children.

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Raping our Youth in Jail?

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Human Rights, Youth, Rape, President Obama, Iran Election, Prisons, US Justice Department, Times Online, Washington Post, Congress, America, Politics News

12% of our incarcerated juveniles were raped or sexually abused by prison staff members or fellow juvenile inmates.

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SEC In Settlement Talks With BofA, UBS: report

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Ubs, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Settlement Talks, CDR Financial Products Inc, Municipal Investment Contracts, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is in settlement talks with several large financial institutions to resolve investigations...

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Britain's New Royalty -- The Oil Potentates

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Kowtowing to moneyed Middle Eastern and African oil interests may not be new, but as the release of the Lockerbie bomber shows, this has become Britain's new norm.

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Can You Trust Your Psychiatrist?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Zyprexa, Eli Lilly, National Alliance for Mental Illness, National-Mental-Health-Association, Psychiatric Drugs, National Institute of Mental Health, Advertising-Industry, US Justice Department, Healthy Living News

If you can't trust big Pharma with its capacity to influence doctors then how can you trust your psychiatrist?

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Government Forced to Back Down on Misdirected Halliburton Case

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Kbr, Kuwait, Jeff Mazon, President Obama, President Bush, US Justice Department, Halliburton, Politics News

The U.S. Justice Department withdrew its 10-count major frauds charge against Jeff Mazon and instead accepted a misdemeanor plea agreement -- a victory for Mazon and a black eye both for the Justice Department and Judge McDade,

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Democrats To Press For Commission To Oversee War Contracts

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Contracts, George Bush, US Senate, Defense Bill, US Justice Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers say they will push ahead with a presidential commission designed to root out waste and fraud in military contracts despit...

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Ashcroft No-Bid Contract Brings Scrutiny To Justice Department

New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mukasey, Gonzales, Justice Department, John Ashcroft, Washington, US Justice Department, Politics News

When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out o...

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DOJ Investigating Price Fixing Among Chocolate Makers

Reuters | Aarthi Sivaraman, Justin Grant and Diane Bartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hershey, Chocolate Companies, Mars, Cadbury, Nestle, US Department of Justice, US Justice Department, Business News

The U.S. Justice Department is looking into possible price fixing in the chocolate industry, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday on its Web s...

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