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The New Tax Man: Big Banks And Hedge Funds

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Taxes, Banks, JPMorgan Chase, New Tax Man, Property Taxes, Tax Liens, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Video, Business News

By Fred Schulte and Ben ProtessHuffington Post Investigative FundInteractive StoryPowered by StoryRiver Media Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge fu...

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Yielding To Wall Street, Credit Raters 'Drink The Kool-Aid'

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raymond McDaniel, Standard, Credit Rating Agencies, Blackrock, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

In the lead up to the financial meltdown, Wall Street firms routinely exerted influence on the nation’s largest credit rating companies— which jud...

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Even With U.S. Oversight, AIG Keeps Secrets

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aig Emails, Fed, AIG Bailout, Aig, Federal Reserve, American International Group, AIG Secrets, Eliot Spitzer, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

After taxpayers rescued American International Group from the brink of collapse, the U.S. government moved to protect its investment by appointing dir...

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Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia Presidential Candidate, Oversaw The Company Managing Elections

Special to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Nadja Drost | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colombia Presidential Election, Juan Santos, HuffPost Fund, Santos Thomas Greg and Sons, Thomas Greg and Sons, Juan Manuel Santos, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Election, Colombia President, Juan Manuel Santos Colombia, World News

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - The man most likely to become Colombia's next president this Sunday has played a previously undisclosed role as a corporate office...

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Heather Galeotti: Kaiser Permanente Pulled Plug On Woman's Insurance While She Was In A Coma

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heather Galeotti, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

By Danielle IvoryHuffington Post Investigative FundWith her heart set on a career as a chef, Heather Galeotti enrolled in a San Francisco culinary sch...

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The Other Foreclosure Menace

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte, Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, JPMorgan Chase, Tax Collectors, Baltimore, Tax Liens, District of Columbia, Vicki Valentine, Foreclosure, National Tax Lien Association, Tax Debt, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Video, Business News

One raw day in early February, Vicki Valentine stood by helplessly as real estate investors snatched her West Baltimore home over what began with an u...

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To Speed Recruits, U.S. Cuts Afghan Police Training to Six Weeks

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan Police Recruits, Afghan Police Force, Afghanistan, Afghan Police, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, World News

The U.S. government's plan to rapidly grow the ranks of Afghan police officers has run into a shortage of instructors and training camps, prompting U....

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Hard Times Update: Readers Share Tales of Foreclosure Schemes, Mortgage Misfortune

Amanda Zamora | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Loan Modification, Mortgage Lending, Housing Crisis, Real Estate Schemes, Real Estate, Recession, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Video, Business News

Send Us Your Tips and 'Bandit Sign' PhotosLast month, we put out a call for stories and photos to help document the effect that "Hard Times ...

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As Afghanistan Contracting Surges, Who's Following The Money?

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Contracting, Afghanistan War, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Video, World News

In the past eight years, the United States has allocated $51 billion to rebuild and stabilize Afghanistan. But tracking that money sometimes seems as ...

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Profiting From Recession, Payday Lenders Spend Big To Fight Regulation

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cash Advance, Payday Lenders, Barney Frank, Blue Dogs, Payday Lenders Lobbying, Payday Loans, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

The influential $42 billion-a-year payday lending industry, thriving from a surge in emergency loans to people struggling through the recession, is po...

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Keith Epstein On Legal Loan Sharks Lobbying Furiously Against Payday Loans Crackdown (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keith Epstein, Video, Payday Loans, Predatory Lending, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Keith Epstein, a senior reporter for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, appeared on "The Dylan Ratigan Show" on MSNBC this afternoon to discuss t...

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Military Training Of Afghan National Police Mired In Contract Dispute

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warwire, Afghanistan, Afghan Forces, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Afghanistan War, World News

As the war in Afghanistan intensifies, a contract dispute in Washington is interfering with the Obama administration's plan to rebuild the Afghan nati...

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Hard Times Profiteers: Help HuffPost Investigative Fund Investigate 'Signs Of Deception' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Ben Protess, Amanda Zamora and Lagan Sebert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Loan Modification, Mortgage Modification, Credit Repair, Video, Business News

Drive through most any city in America and the offers will leap out at you: "Repair Your Credit!" "Modify Your Loan!" "Sell Your House Quick!" The ...

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Victim of a Real Estate Scheme? Huffington Post Investigative Fund Wants Your Stories

Amanda Zamora | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La Real Estate, Foreclosures, Los Angeles Real Estate, Mortgage Relief, Mortgage Modification, Real Estate, Recession, Home Foreclosures, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund would like to shine a light on real estate schemes going on around the country. We're looking for your tips and stories to help us investigate.

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Help Track Members of Congress Bound for the Super Bowl

Amanda Zamora | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investigative Journalism, Congressional Elections, Propublica, Super Bowl, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

The Super Bowl is America's most expensive sports spectacle, and it has long been used to rub shoulders, gain influence and form ties that help congressional candidates.

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FDIC Chief Got Bank Of America Loans While Working On Its Rescue

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein and David Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BofA Bank of America, Sheila Bair Mortgages, Fdic, Sheila Bair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Sheila Bair, one of the chief regulators overseeing Bank of America's federal rescue, took out two mortgages worth more than $1 million from the banki...

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Bank's Failure Shows Lapses By Regulators

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ocala National Bank, Fdic, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Financial Reform, Regulation, Mortgage Crisis, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Predatory Lending, Financial Crisis, Ocala National, Housing Crisis, Florida, Development, Subprime Mortgage, Wall Street, Business News

Even by the distorted standards of the national housing bubble, north central Florida was a hot market. Between 2004 and 2006 new houses and property ...

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When Banks Fail, So Do Those Promised CD Rates

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Capitalsouth, Fdic, CD Rates, Banks, Normal Jean Scott, Fixed-Term CDs, Iberiabank, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, American Bankers Association, Business News

Norma Jean Scott, a 63-year-old Alabama retiree, thought she was being prudent three years ago when she stashed her $100,000 retirement nest egg in a ...

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Major Gaps In Oversight Of Human Medical Research

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Columbia Heart Study, Jerry Menikoff, Columbia University Medical Center, Gene Therapy, Human Test Subjects, Fda, Hetastarch, New York News, Cardiac Surgery, Hextend, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia University Heart Study, Human Research Protections, Politics News

Ten years ago, an 18-year-old student named Jesse Gelsinger died during a medical research trial involving gene therapy at the University of Pennsylva...

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Government Orders Columbia to Tell Patients 'True Nature' of Drug Study

Special To Huffington Post Investigative Fund |
Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Columbia Heart Study, Columbia University Medical Center, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia University Heart Study, New York News

NEW YORK -- The man who would be known as Patient No. 1 emerged from routine open-heart surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in stable condit...

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Chris Dodd's Departure Could Endanger Potential Consumer Protection Agency

Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Dodd Consumer Protection Agency, Consumer Protection Agency, Chris Dodd Retires, Chris Dodd, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Video, Politics News

It's the question buzzing around Washington and Wall Street this week: Will Sen. Christopher Dodd's sudden retirement announcement further jeopardize ...

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Under Attack, Credit Raters Turn to the First Amendment

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Standard, Bill of Rights, Morgan Stanley, Moodys, Egan Jones, Free Speech, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Video, Business News

Editor's note: This is the first of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. To help with the investigation, sign up ...

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In Reversal Of Bush Policy, EPA Launches New Study of Atrazine's Health Effects

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: EPA Drinking Water, Atrazine, Barbara Boxer, Atrazine Water, Epa, Environment, Drinking Water, EPA Atrazine, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...

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Some Nonprofit Student Lenders Accused Of Misconduct

Huffington Post | Jeannnette Neumann, Cezary Podkul, Delphine Reuter and Andrew Tobin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Education, Student Debt, Nonprofits, Sallie Mae, Student Lenders, College Debt, Gao, Student Loans, Hufffund, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Government Accountability Office, Business News

As the cost of college continues to skyrocket, students are increasingly seeking loans from nonprofits--state-based organizations often viewed as an a...

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