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May 31, 2013	Shakedown 'justice' in Mexico QUOTE: Those of us who visit Mexico know you never get on a bus. It makes you easy pickings for bandits and bad cops, and sometimes you can't tell the difference. Bandits might take your money, and let you go on your way. Bad cops take your liberty, and hold it until someone back home sends enough money to let you go on your way.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Feb 04, 2013	U.S. Accuses S. & P. of Fraud in Suit on Loan Bundles QUOTE: The Justice Department filed civil fraud charges late on Monday against the nation's largest credit-ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, accusing the firm of inflating the ratings of mortgage investments and setting them up for a crash when the financial crisis struck....From September 2004 through October 2007, S.&P. "knowingly and with the intent to defraud, devised, participated in, and executed a scheme to defraud investors" in certain mortgage-related securities, according to the suit filed against the agency and its parent company, McGraw-Hill Companies. S.&P. also falsely represented that its ratings "were objective, independent, uninfluenced by any conflicts of interest," the suit said.	New York Times
Nov 15, 2012	Police Killing in Kenya Deepens Aura of Menace QUOTE: a spectacularly dysfunctional national police force. “On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give our police a 2,” said Macharia Njeru, the chairman of Kenya’s new police oversight board, citing corruption allegations, human rights abuses, extrajudicial killings, failed inquiries and lost public trust.	New York Times
Nov 15, 2012	Wal-Mart Inquiry Reflects Alarm on Corruption QUOTE: Wal-Mart on Thursday reported that its investigation into violations of a federal antibribery law had extended beyond Mexico to China, India and Brazil, some of the retailer’s most important international markets. The disclosure, made in a regulatory filing, suggests Wal-Mart has uncovered evidence into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...	New York Times
Apr 26, 2012	Not just Wal-Mart: Dozens of U.S. companies face bribery charges QUOTE: Deere, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcom and many others are also under investigation for violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Apr 21, 2012	Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle QUOTE: Wal-Mart dispatched investigators to Mexico City, and within days they unearthed evidence of widespread bribery. They found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than $24 million. They also found documents showing that Wal-Mart de Mexico’s top executives not only knew about the payments, but had taken steps to conceal them from Wal-Mart’s headquarters....The lead investigator recommended that Wal-Mart expand the investigation. Instead, an examination by The New York Times found, Wal-Mart’s leaders shut it down.	New York Times
Aug 05, 2011	Ex-Lawmaker Still a Friend of Hospitals QUOTE: House members are banned from lobbying on Capitol Hill for a year after leaving office (Mr. Pomeroy’s term ended in January), but Mr. Pomeroy, a Democrat, has teamed up with his former chief of staff, who is not subject to the restriction, as a lobbying partner.	New York Times
Jul 05, 2011	Cheating for Dummies: Your guide to smarter NCAA rule-breaking QUOTE: The NCAA has what amounts to subpoena power over current athletes and current university employees. That's it. The NCAA's rules don't apply to anyone else. That opens an almost infinite array of cheating opportunities completely undetectable by the NCAA's enforcement cops. If you get caught cheating, you got caught because you're incredibly stupid.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jun 28, 2011	In South Korea, fairness is the new ideal QUOTE: Experts say the fairness fixation reflects dismay at what rapid change has wrought: a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and residual corruption. For President Lee Myung-bak, this is more than a passing problem, because middle-class economic concerns and a string of frauds and scandals have convinced South Koreans that theirs is anything but the “fair society” that he has touted.	Washington Post
Jun 20, 2011	Power Broker Steps Down After Years of Whispers QUOTE: For nearly three decades, Warner, 68, has also been a powerful but polarizing figure in regional and international soccer circles. On Monday, he resigned his positions as the vice president of FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, and as the president of soccer’s North American, Central American and Caribbean region, known as Concacaf. He had been accused in a bribery scheme involving as much as $1 million and had been suspended from all soccer activities...	New York Times
May 01, 2011	Costly Afghanistan Road Project Is Marred by Unsavory Alliances QUOTE: The vast expenses and unsavory alliances surrounding the highway have become a parable of the corruption and mismanagement that turns so many well-intended development efforts in Afghanistan into sinkholes for the money of American taxpayers... There have been 364 attacks on the Gardez-Khost Highway.	New York Times
Apr 12, 2011	The Real Housewives of Wall Street QUOTE: What they don't know is that there is another budget of roughly equal heft, traditionally maintained in complete secrecy... It is as though someone sat down and made a list of every individual on earth who actually did not need emergency financial assistance from the United States government, and then handed them the keys to the public treasure.	Rolling Stone
Apr 06, 2011	Fiesta Bowl’s Lesson: Boards Must Watch for Red Flags QUOTE: Charitable funds have gone misspent, jobs have been lost, and the reputation of one of college football’s most prominent organizations has been sullied... The ultimate (and often unfair) question in situations like this is, Where was the board?	Chronicle of Philanthropy
Feb 08, 2011	Corruption Blew the Lid off North Africa QUOTE: Today, people see freedom from corruption as a basic human right. They are right to do so. No one should have to live under a regime where corruption is endemic.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jan 20, 2011	Paid a bribe? Click here to complain QUOTE: In India if you ask citizens about corruption almost everyone has a story. Bribes and kickbacks have become a part of everyday life for many.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Dec 16, 2010	Wall Street Whitewash QUOTE: The bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was established by law to “examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.” The hope was that it would be a modern version of the Pecora investigation of the 1930s, which documented Wall Street abuses and helped pave the way for financial reform. Instead, however, the commission has broken down along partisan lines, unable to agree on even the most basic points.	New York Times
May 25, 2010	BP’s Ties to Agency Are Long and Complex QUOTE: The relationships among Dr. Chu, Dr. Koonin and BP illustrate the complexity of the ties between the company and the government now playing out along the Gulf Coast as they struggle to cope with one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters. Just as the Pentagon and military contractors develop symbiotic business, technical and political interdependencies, the government in this case needs BP’s offshore drilling technology and well-control equipment; the company needs the government’s logistical and scientific expertise, including that of Dr. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.	New York Times
May 17, 2010	Russian Journalists, Fighting Graft, Pay in Blood QUOTE: the violence was an omen, beginning a wave of unsolved attacks and official harassment against journalists, human rights activists and opposition politicians around the region, which includes the Moscow suburbs, but not the city itself. Rarely, if ever, is anyone held responsible.	New York Times
Mar 29, 2010	Afghan corruption: How to follow the money? QUOTE: a Defense Department contract worth up to $360 million to transport U.S. military goods through some of the most insecure territory in Afghanistan. But his company has no trucks. Instead, Wardak sits atop a murky pyramid of Afghan subcontractors who provide the vehicles and safeguard their passage. U.S. military officials say they are satisfied with the results, but they concede that they have little knowledge or control over where the money ends up.	Washington Post
Feb 27, 2010	Ethics panel clears 7 on earmarks QUOTE: the ethics committee declared that lawmakers are free to raise campaign money from the very companies they are benefiting so long as the deciding factors in granting those "earmarks" are "criteria independent" of the contributions. The report served as a blunt rejection of ethics watchdogs and a different group of congressional investigators, who have contended that in some instances the connection between donations and earmarks was so close that it had to be inappropriate.	Washington Post
Nov 19, 2009	The rot spreads: Corporate crime is on the rise QUOTE: THE recession has taken its toll on morals as well as profits.	Economist
Nov 19, 2009	Zombie Nuke Plants QUOTE: More than half of America's nuclear plants have received new twenty-year operating licenses. In fact, the NRC has not rejected a single license-renewal application. Many of these plants have also received "power up-rates" that allow them to run at up to 120 percent of their originally intended capacity. That means their systems are subjected to unprecedented amounts of heat, pressure, corrosion, stress and embrittling radiation.	Nation
Nov 17, 2009	Paying Off the Warlords: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption QUOTE: Afghan political analysts observe that Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid are striking examples of the multimillion-dollar business conglomerates, financed by American as well as Afghan tax dollars and connected to powerful political figures, that have... emerged as part of a pervasive culture of corruption here.	TomDispatch
Nov 16, 2009	Taint of Corruption Is No Barrier to U.S. Visa QUOTE: former and current State Department officials said Equatorial Guinea’s close ties to the American oil industry were the reason for the lax enforcement of the law [baring official Teodoro Nguema Obiang from entering the U.S,. to his mansion].	New York Times
Oct 10, 2009	Subpoenas issued in probe of ex-Interior secretary QUOTE: A federal grand jury has subpoenaed records from Royal Dutch Shell PLC as part of a Justice Department investigation into corruption allegations against former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton, according to sources close to the investigation.	Los Angeles Times
Oct 01, 2009	America's High-Tech Sweatshops: U.S. companies may be contributing unwittingly to the exploitation of workers imported from India and elsewhere by tech-services outfits QUOTE: While many [tech-service] outfits operate legally and provide high-quality talent, there is growing evidence that others violate U.S. laws and mistreat their recruits.	BusinessWeek
Sep 16, 2009	Where are the subprime perp walks?: Three years after the housing bubble popped, prosecutors have yet to bring a major case tied to the subprime fiasco. What gives? QUOTE: Three years after the housing bubble popped, federal prosecutors have yet to bring a case against the executives whose firms took part in some of the worst excesses of the subprime mortgage market.	Fortune
Sep 07, 2009	Password Hackers Are Slippery To Collar QUOTE: "This is an important point that people haven't grasped," said Peter Eckersley, a staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "We've been using e-mail for years, and it's been insecure all that time.... If you have any hacker who is competent and spends the time and targets you, he's going to get you."	Washington Post
Sep 07, 2009	U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm QUOTE: The U.S. government late last month filed a new, expanded 18-count indictment that now seeks $4.9 million from a New Jersey IT services firm it has accused of fraudulently using H-1B visas.	Computerworld
Sep 03, 2009	After Its Madoff Report, Can Victims Sue the SEC? QUOTE: Howard Elisofan, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein LLP and a former SEC enforcement attorney, launched a legal action against the SEC on behalf of a victim, Phyllis Molchatsky, last December.	Time Magazine
Sep 02, 2009	Report Details How Madoff’s Web Ensnared S.E.C. QUOTE: “despite numerous credible and detailed complaints,” the S.E.C. never took “the necessary, but basic, steps to determine if [Bernard L.] Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme.”	New York Times
Aug 25, 2009	Hawaii to Remove Inmates Over Abuse Charges QUOTE: Hawaii prison officials said Tuesday that all of the state’s 168 female inmates at a privately run Kentucky prison will be removed by the end of September because of charges of sexual abuse by guards.	New York Times
Aug 22, 2009	Reports Revive Debate on Contractor Use: Lawmakers, Critics Warn That Military, CIA May Rely Too Much on Private Firms QUOTE: The disclosure that the CIA once hired Blackwater USA for elements of an assassination program has brought back into focus the wide range of intelligence and military activities that are being contracted out to private firms.	Washington Post
Aug 20, 2009	Lead Sickens 1,300 Children in China QUOTE: Lead pollution from a newly opened and unlicensed manganese smelter has poisoned more than 1,300 children in southeastern China’s Hunan Province...	New York Times
Aug 10, 2009	I Love a Mark in Uniform: Kidnapping. Falsified documents. Hooters nights. Meet the sleazebucket car dealers who prey on our troops. QUOTE: authorities ranging from local prosecutors to state regulatory boards to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to the military itself have done relatively little to address the proliferation of dubious auto sales-and-credit tactics [used on military enlistees].	Mother Jones
Aug 07, 2009	A $191 Million Question: How a relationship between an Army official and a private contractor led to allegations of collusion and impropriety QUOTE: Reforms a decade ago, intended to make the system [procurement system] more efficient and entrepreneurial, had unintended consequences: insufficient oversight, conflicts of interest, unprecedented outsourcing and an endlessly revolving door that leads government officials into the offices of contractors.	Washington Post
Jul 26, 2009	Reviews prompt suspension of Iraqi jobs program QUOTE: The top U.S. aid agency has suspended a $644 million Iraq jobs program after two outside reviews raised concerns about misspending, including an inspector general's audit that found evidence of phantom jobs and money siphoned to insurgents.	USA TODAY
Jul 23, 2009	Click Fraud's New Asian Connection: Vietnam may be a new waypoint for pay-per-click scammers. QUOTE: A report Anchor published Thursday shows that nearly half of all the advertising clicks coming from Vietnam are composed of fraudulent traffic aimed at inflating online publishers' advertising revenue...	Forbes
Jul 22, 2009	Blackwater Seeks Gag Order QUOTE: On July 20, the company's [Blackwater] high-powered lawyers from Mayer Brown... filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to impose a gag order on Iraqi civilians suing the company.	Nation
Jul 17, 2009	China reins in more rights activists by seizing computers QUOTE: In another sign of the Chinese authorities clamping down on civil rights activists, on Friday officials confiscated the computers of lawyers working on last year's tainted milk scandal.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 15, 2009	N.Y. Quadrangle Probe Intensifies QUOTE: New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has stepped up his investigation of an investment firm founded by the former head of the Obama administration's autos task force,	Washington Post
Jul 15, 2009	Air Force Project Being Probed Is Linked to Murtha: Lawmaker Arranged Earmark for It QUOTE: The research effort at the Pensacola Air Force base fell apart, however, when investigators found evidence that it was used to improperly pay a series of companies linked to [Rep. John P.] Murtha.	Washington Post
Jul 13, 2009	China Broadens Investigation of Steel Industry QUOTE: The Chinese authorities have detained or questioned at least seven Chinese steel industry executives in a broadening corruption investigation...	New York Times
Jul 08, 2009	Treaty Conveys Little Power to Break Swiss Bank Secrecy QUOTE: A new treaty touted as helping U.S. law enforcement crack Swiss bank secrecy may do little to help authorities achieve a prime objective: exposing tax evaders.	Washington Post
Jul 07, 2009	Florida aided Allen Stanford, suspect in huge swindle: Florida regulators -- over objections by the state's top banking lawyer -- gave sweeping powers to banker Allen Stanford, accused of swindling in QUOTE: Over objections by the state's chief banking lawyer -- including concerns that [Allen] Stanford was laundering money -- regulators granted sweeping powers never given to a private company.	Miami Herald
Jul 06, 2009	Report Faults Performance Bonuses for Contractors: Some Agencies 'Unaware' of Policy QUOTE: Federal agencies have awarded billions in bonuses to contractors regardless of whether the work was deemed satisfactory...	Washington Post
Jul 01, 2009	Scam Alert: Home, Stolen Home: Forged deeds can give crooks the keys to your castle QUOTE: House stealing is a fast-growing and easy scam. Once a home is targeted... scammers find out who owns it by searching public records. To prove how easy this scam is, William Sherman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Daily News in New York, bought the Empire State Building with doctored documents.	AARP
Jun 23, 2009	Increase in Native corporation contracts brings Senate scrutiny: CONTRACTS: Analysis reveals only a fifth were done in Alaska. QUOTE: From 2000 to 2008, only one-fifth of all contracts awarded to Alaska Native corporations were performed in Alaska... last year Alaska Native corporations received 19 percent of all federal contracts awarded to small businesses.	Anchorage Daily News
Jun 16, 2009	Synthes, Medical Device Maker, Accused of Improper Marketing QUOTE: A medical device maker, Synthes Inc., and four of its executives were indicted Tuesday on federal charges that they improperly promoted a bone filler for purposes not approved by the Food and Drug Administration...	New York Times
Jun 15, 2009	Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme QUOTE: AFTER an investigation that took more than a year, Microsoft has filed its first lawsuit over click fraud, where people manipulate clicks on a Web advertisement.	New York Times

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