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Bill Thomas

What's Your Ideal Place to Grow Old?

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 09.13.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Slidepollajax, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Ed Asner, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bill Thomas, Michael Bedner, Dan Lang, James Birren, Judi Dench, Gerontology, Baby Boomers, Senior Housing, Continuing-Care-Retirement-Communities, Fifty News
Dr. Caroline Cicero

What is your ideal place to grow old, and will you be part of its evolution?

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David Lohr

Former Deputy Sheriff Pleads Guilty To Scamming Serial Killer Victims' Families

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.22.2012 | Crime
Read More: Robin Edwards, Colonial Parkway Murders, Keith Call, Fred Atwell, Bob Mcdonnell, Fbi, Slidewide, Rebecca Dowski, Video, Cathleen Thomas, Bill Thomas, Joyce Call-Canada, David Knobling, Missing Persons, Daniel Lauer, Annamarie Phelps, Serial Killers, Crime News

A former deputy sheriff with ties to the Colonial Parkway murders -- a series of unsolved homicides that occurred in Virginia in the 1980s -- has plea...

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Pioneering Los Angeles Times Writer Dies

AP | Posted 03.21.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Video, California State University, Noel Greenwood, Bill Thomas, Los Angeles Times, Lady Bird Johnson, Obituary, Dorothy Townsend, Obit, Myrna Oliver, Watts Riots, Pulitzer Prize, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- Dorothy Townsend, the first female staff writer for the Los Angeles Times' city section and the lone woman on a team of dozens of repor...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Financial Crisis Panel Commissioners Leaked Confidential Information To Lobbyists, Report Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.12.2011 | Business
Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Bill Thomas, Great Recession, Darrell Issa, Lobbyists, Banks, Financial Crisis, Citigroup, Business News

Republican commissioners on the panel created by Congress to probe the roots of the financial crisis leaked documents to partisan allies and shared co...

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Republican "Fifth Column" Strikes Financial Commission. Are YOU Next?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Republican Saboteurs, Robert Rubin, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Fcic, Precognition, Dave Johnson, Keith Hennessey, Steve Benen, Sleeper Cells, The Minority Report, Bill Thomas, Digby, Mutants, Peter Wallison, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

A sleeper cell of four Republicans struck the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission this week, escalating what had previously been a campaign of covert obstruction into an overt act of sabotage.

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The Soviet GOP: There's Something Red About This Whitewash

Rob Warmowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Wall Street, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, New Pecora Commission, The Financial Fix, Fcic, Shadow Banking, Bill Thomas, Business News, Deregulation, Phil Angelides, Brooksley Born, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Rob Warmowski

Some younger readers might need a refresher course in the workings of a thing called the Soviet Union. Republican apologists for Wall Street are doing their best to provide one.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Financial Crisis Panel In Turmoil As Republicans Defect; Plan To Blame Government For Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: The Financial Fix, Wall Street, New Pecora Commission, Bill Thomas, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Shadow Banking, Fcic, Phil Angelides, Brooksley Born, Business News

The four Republicans appointed to the commission investigating the root causes of the financial crisis plan to bypass the bipartisan panel and release...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Two Top Investigators Leave Financial Crisis Commission

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: The Financial Fix, Brad Bondi, New Pecora Commission, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Pecora Commission, Matthew Cooper, Fcic, Financial Crisis Commission, Bill Thomas, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Bradley Bondi, Phil Angelides, Business News

Two senior staffers have quietly left the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a panel working under a tight deadline that has been dogged by rumors o...

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The Highlights and Lowlights of the Financial Crisis Hearings

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, William Black, Lehman Brothers, Bill Thomas, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Permanent-Subcommittee-on-Investigations, Richard Fuld, Fannie Mae, Alan Greenspan, Phil Angelides, Slidepollajax, Brooksley Born, Citigroup, Business News

Over the last year and a half, Congressional committees and bipartisan panels like the Financial Crisis Inquiry Comission (FCIC) charged with investig...

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FCIC Set To Question Bank CEOs About Financial Meltdown

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Morgan Stanley, Bill Thomas, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Banks, Lloyd Blankfein, Fcic, Bofa, Phil Angelides, Wall Street, Brian Moynihan, John Mack, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, Business News

WASHINGTON — Two blocks from the Treasury, where the government not long ago scrambled to save a collapsing financial system, a team of investig...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Heads Of Financial Crisis Commission Call Bonuses Unjustifiable, Vow To Investigate (EXCLUSIVE)

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tarp, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Bailout Bandits, Bailout, Wall Street, Bill Thomas, Financial Crisis, Banks, Phil Angelides, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

The chair and vice chair of the federal commission charged with investigating the causes of the financial crisis had harsh words on Tuesday for the Wa...

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Panel Probing Financial Crisis Has Wall Street Ties

Wall Street Journal | JOHN D. MCKINNON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Financial Crisis Panel, Financial Crisis Probe, Financial Crisis, Bill Thomas, Bryan Georgiou, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Two appointees to a congressional panel investigating the financial crisis work for law firms that represent either Wall Street or its a...

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New "Pecora Commission" Stalled In Congress

The Hill | Silla Brush and Jared Allen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Pecora Commission, Wall Street Investigation, Erskine Bowles, Bill Thomas, Congress Wall Street Commission, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Barney Frank, Fred Thompson, Pelosi, Harry Reid, Wall Street Probe, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Business News

Democratic and Republican leaders have yet to nominate a single person to the high-profile commission aimed at investigating the financial crisis, eve...

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Nominees Emerge For New "Pecora Commission"

Reuters | Karey Wutkowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Wall Street Commission, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Pecora Commission, Bob Graham, Brooksley Born, Wall Street Investigation, Alex Pollock, Commodities Futures Trading Commission Brooksley Born, Bill Thomas, Fred Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Jake Garn, Congress Wall Street Investigation, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan panel armed with subpoena power to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown is on the brink of being launche...

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