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FBI agents' lewd behaviour revealed in disciplinary reports
Sending naked pictures to an ex-boyfriend's wife, bugging the boss' office and using company phones to send explicit 'sext' messages between colleagues are not activities often associated with America's highest level of law enforcement.
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The Untouchables
FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages.
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Moyers - Amgens sweet senate deal
Bill talks to U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) about the Senate’s costly giveaway to the world’s largest biotechnology firm.
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Senator Michael Rubio resigning after two years on California State Senate
Rubio has officially accepted a position with Chevron Corporation to serve as manager of California government affairs and his decision comes the day he was scheduled to introduce a bill that proposed changes to the landmark California Environmental Quality Act. Rubio said "family comes first."
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"Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White’s Hearing," by Pam Martens
Americans learned for the first time on March 6 of this year that the highest law enforcement agent in our country, Attorney General Eric Holder, weighs economic interests when deciding whether to enforce our Nation’s laws against criminal wrongdoers like the too-big-to-fail banks.
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Was the U.S. Justice Department Sold to the Highest Bidder
When we read the lawsuits involving Wall Street – firms colluding with each other, document shredding, lawyers’ hiding evidence, decades of deceiving the American people, strong arm tactics, deceptive trade associations – it all has a familiar ring. It should. Wall Street is following in the footsteps of Big Tobacco.
And there’s one more common bond that
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Massive Leak of Offshore Account Documents Reveals How the Global Rich Hide Their Money
Thousands of individuals are implicated in abusing more than 120,000 offshore companies in 170 countries to evade taxes and shield shady business from view.
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America Is Ruled by Billionaires, and They Are Coming After the Last Shreds of Our Democracy
America is a plutocracy through and through -- what are we going to do about it?
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When a Congressman Becomes a Lobbyist, He Gets a 1,452 Percent Raise (On Average)
Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office. Once a public official makes a deal to go to work for a lobbying firm or corporation after leaving office, he or she becomes loyal to the future employer
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ANALYSIS: When a Congressman Becomes a Lobbyist, He Gets a 1,452% Raise (on Average)
Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office.
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Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
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Pete Peterson's long campaign against the national debt
One of the best-known advocates for deficit reduction is Maya MacGuineas. She heads two groups Peterson supports, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and more recently, the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She hosted a kickoff event for the newest one last summer.
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Penny Pritzker as an example of the criminality of our elites
President Obama is nominating his top fund raiser, Penny Pritzker, to be Secretary of Commerce. Incredibly - perhaps I should write, sadly - the announcement is causing hardly a stir among the liberal and progressive blogosphere. At the very least, Greg Palast's May 4, 2013 post at Smirking Chimp, Billionaire Bankster Breaks into Obama’s Cabinet, should be going viral.
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