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Super Rich Still Have Little To Fear From IRS

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.10.2012

WASHINGTON -- Despite the Internal Revenue Service's promise to bring new scrutiny to tax avoidance schemes used by the super rich, a new report finds...

LA's Shameful Health Care Fraud Cases

| Christina Jewett | Posted 10.24.2011

Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Christina Jewett The federal government is on track to prosecute nearly twice as many health care f...

The Department of Justice: Indicting Immigrants, Ignoring Wall Street Crooks

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.28.2011

Richard (RJ) Eskow

From the federal government we've now seen two thousand prosecutions of people who ripped off banks, and no prosecutions for banks who ripped off people. The moral seems to be "don't mug a racketeer."

Few Are Charged Over Threats Against Federal Officials

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — One man posted a message to the White House website threatening to kill the president. "This is not a joke," he warned, and typed i...

Feds Tight-Lipped on Results of Immigration Enforcement

Renee Feltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Renee Feltz

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's recent clampdown on the data it gathers raises serious questions about the Obama administration's commitment to transparency and accountability.

Tracking Immigrants in Detention

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Arlene M. Roberts

Today the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched its Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) designed to provide current status on the locat...