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The mysterious Bank Madoff

The mysterious Bank Madoff »

March 17, 2009 - There's a mysterious "Bank Madoff, New York" that U.S. authorities don't appear to know about. Bank Madoff listing on Clearstream rosterNo comment / Read More »

Offshore tax cheating could become criminal money-laundering offense

Offshore tax cheating could become criminal money-laundering offense »

Feb 11, 2009 - The U.S. government might finally get a powerful tool against offshore tax evasion by mega-wealthy individuals and corporations. The worst most miscreants face now is negotiated pay-ups years after they are...

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Is NY Gov. Paterson protecting corporate tax evaders?

Is NY Gov. Paterson protecting corporate tax evaders? »

Feb 8, 2009 - At a time when New York State's budget is reeling from Wall Street tax losses, you'd think Governor David Paterson would want to recoup all the evaded taxes he could get....

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Scoops

IRS on the Track of Tax-Cheating “John Doe’s” »

IRS on the Track of Tax-Cheating “John Doe’s”

Inter Press Service (IPS), April 30, 2009 MIAMI BEACH -- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is hitting pay dirt with a novel legal tactic...

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Tax Havens in Spotlight at G20 Meet »

Tax Havens in Spotlight at G20 Meet

Inter Press Service (IPS), March 29, 2009 - This could be the moment when a fatal blow is delivered to the world's tax havens....

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The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino »

The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino

AlterNet, March 26, 2009 - Congress has deftly avoided the real story of AIG's collapse, which will make a few million in bonuses seem...

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Cafeteria Kickbacks »

Cafeteria Kickbacks

How food-service providers like Sodexo bilk millions from taxpayers and customers
In These Times, March 2009 - The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute provided...

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Exclusive: How One Fund’s Profits Ended Up in the Caymans »

<em>Exclusive</em>: How One Fund’s Profits Ended Up in the Caymans

Inter Press Service (IPS), Feb 5, 2009 - President Barack Obama said he would crack down on firms that use offshore centres to evade...

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Geithner – Treasury Nominee Failed to Halt Bond Scam »

Geithner – Treasury Nominee Failed to Halt Bond Scam

Inter Press Service (IPS), Jan 19, 2009 - U.S. senators at Timothy Geithner's confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary Wednesday may want to ask him...

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Theater

“Waiting for Godot” – Beckett on the uselessness of expecting God to save us from misery »

“Waiting for Godot” – Beckett on the uselessness of expecting God to save us from misery

For me the mystery of Samuel Beckett's play about two down-at-the-heels hobos who watch an overbearing "master" abuse a pathetic slave is the division of the audience into those who laugh and those who don’t. I noticed this years ago when I first saw the...

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“Pure Confidence” traces a slave jockey to “freedom” in Saratoga, New York »

“Pure Confidence” traces a slave jockey to “freedom” in Saratoga, New York

Simon Cato (Gavin Lawrence) in his gold and purple stripes is cheeky, witty, a charmer as a jockey. Step back. This is 1861 and he is black; cheeky translates to "impudent," (a challenge to power). A "witty" black man probably had no translation. Colonel Wiley...

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Travel

Climbing down a coal shaft and up a castle keep in Wales »

Climbing down a coal shaft and up a castle keep in WalesSeeing how both halves lived - We were descending a into 300-foot-deep Welsh coal mine, hard hats firmly in place, watches and anything...

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Berlin sculptures tell of women who defied Nazis »

Berlin sculptures tell of women who defied NazisProtest at Rosenstrasse by non-Jewish women saved their Jewish husbands and sons - In a small park just off Karl Liebnechtstrasse in former East Berlin...

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A visit to the KGB: Spy agency opens the door to a world of secrets »

A visit to the KGB: Spy agency opens the door to a world of secretsI was having dinner at the Moscow apartment of Tatiana Kudryavtseva, the Russian translator for books by Graham Greene, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, John...

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Citigroup’s Charles Prince: “Let’s go back to the bad old days.”

Citigroup’s Charles Prince: “Let’s go back to the bad old days.”

April 10, 2007 The NY Times reports today that Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, is planning to cut the corporation’s compliance staff. Citigroup logoReporter Eric Dash...

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AIG

The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino

The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino

AlterNet, March 26, 2009 - Congress has deftly avoided the real story of AIG's collapse, which will make a few million in bonuses seem like peanuts. Most legislators at a House Finance subcommittee hearing...

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Politics

Is NY Gov. Paterson protecting corporate tax evaders?

Is NY Gov. Paterson protecting corporate tax evaders?

Feb 8, 2009 - At a time when New York State's budget is reeling from Wall Street tax losses, you'd think Governor David Paterson would want to recoup all the evaded taxes he...

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tax evasion

OECD Tax Havens Deal Falls Short, Critics Say

OECD Tax Havens Deal Falls Short, Critics Say

Inter Press Service (IPS), May 8, 2009 MIAMI BEACH - Jeffrey Owens, the tax "point person" of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was stung by activist critics of the OECD standards...

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Audio/Video

Lucy’s speeches & interviews

Lucy’s speeches & interviews

Radio interview about Naked Short Selling and the Financial Crisis on “For the Record” with David Emory Nov. 4, 2008, For that show and others search for Komisar on Dave Emory show. Or...

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French

L’ex-préfet mêlé à un trafic de «mercure rouge»

L’ex-préfet mêlé à un trafic de «mercure rouge»

Dimanche (Lausanne), 14 décembre 2001 Pour vendre 600 kg de matériel nucléaire à des Saoudiens, l’ex-conseiller national UDC et son notaire ont pris moult précautions. Berne ouvre une enquête. Mercredi, le Ministère public de la...

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Spanish

Osama y Saddam, parientes incómodos de Bush

Osama y Saddam, parientes incómodos de Bush

Servicio Inter Press (IPS), 4 de abril 2007 Los legisladores de Estados Unidos que investigan la veracidad de los argumentos del presidente George W. Bush para invadir Iraq deberían analizar una de sus...

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German

SVP-Politiker dealte mit Uran

SVP-Politiker dealte mit Uran

Von Lucy Komisar*, Beat Kraushaar Und Henry Habegger, Mitarbeit: Laurent Duvane SonntagsBlick (Zurich) 9 Dezember 2001 BERN – 600 Kilo nukleares Material wollten Ex-SVP-Nationalrat Bernard Rohrbasser und Notar R. verkaufen – an die Saudis. Verwickelt...

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