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Chicago Confidential: Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner believes lessons not heeded
The lessons of Lehman Brothers, Chicagoan Anton Valukas says, haven't been learned. He would know. As the man charged by the bankruptcy court with getting to the bottom of what caused the largest bankruptcy in history, the Jenner & Block chairman and...
Tags: Prosecution, Ben Bernanke, WorldCom Incorporated, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Henry Paulson
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More fishy government spending
If you're like me and wrote a healthy check last week to pay your dues to Uncle Sam, you probably don't want to hear more about the government wasting your hard-earned dough. But I'm going to stoke your ire anyway, because our president and Congress...Tags: Finance, Medicaid, Darrell E Issa, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Government Health Care
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The best way yet to proclaim love for a tax cheat
Ernst & Young LLP received the usual kid-glove treatment given to too-big-to-fail enterprises when it reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over illegal tax shelters it sold more than a decade ago. The government chose not to prosecute the...Tags: Trials, Finance, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Justice, Prisons
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Home care aides not getting paid
Many people in Pauline Konrath's situation live in a nursing home. At 85, she has dementia and Parkinson's disease and uses a wheelchair. But she doesn't live in a nursing home because her son, Joe, moved her in with his family. It's not an easy...Tags: Career and Workplace, Nursing Homes, Medicaid, Employees, Government Health Care
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JPMorgan board members targeted by shareholder advisers
JPMorgan Chase, one of the nation's largest banks, survived the financial crisis better than most — only to have the $6 billion "London Whale" trading loss last year expose embarrassing flaws in its accounting and risk controls. Influential...
Tags: Finance, Parties and Movements, Boeing Co., Chicago Tribune Columnists, Barack Obama
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Germany will never let ECB shut Deutsche Bank
The first people to tell the public that the world's oldest bank was cooking its books weren't the bank's executives, its outside auditors at KPMG, its regulators at the Bank of Italy, or anyone else who had a duty to keep the place honest. They were...Tags: Finance, Market and Exchange, European Union, Foreign Exchange Market, Deutsche Bank AG
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Arena deal keeps tilting in Panthers' favor
Now that the Dolphins’ request for public money to renovate their private stadium has been shot down, team officials have hinted they would be open to moving to some imagined new home in Palm Beach County. Like I always say in these situations,...Tags: Carolina Panthers, Major League Baseball, Miami Marlins, Palm Beach County, National Football League
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Auditors To Legislature: Tighten Overused Bidding Loophole
The Hartford CourantThe General Assembly should consider limiting what qualifies under law for a waiver for competitive bidding on state contracts, state auditors John C. Geragosian and Robert M. Ward said in their annual report to lawmakers, released Friday. The law...Tags: Trials, Justice System, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Waterbury
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Kevin Hunt: Guess What New Britain Woman Got For $299 Mortgage Audit?
The Hartford CourantUnsolicited letters, email and telephone calls are almost always best left unanswered. Let them go and they'll never amount to more than a nuisance. Answer one, as Mari Merwin of New Britain did, and you're asking for trouble. Merwin's troubles...Tags: Justice System, Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Financial and Business Services
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Uncle Sam isn't paying his taxes
If you or I didn't pay our federal taxes, the government would threaten to lock us up or seize our assets to pay the debt. Yet Uncle Sam has continued to get away with being a tax scofflaw for years, despite being warned to stop. Federal agencies don'...Tags: Social Issues, Career and Workplace, Internal Revenue Service, Allentown, Media Industry
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Lawmakers forcing economic-development accountability
TALLAHASSEE – Florida's economic-development strategy for years has been a taxpayer-financed piggy bank handing out big bucks to companies that made grand job-creation promises and were seldom held accountable for their flops. That's been...Tags: Rick Scott, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Chris Smith (New Jersey Politician), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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The Best $75 A Connecticut Homeowner Can Spend
Nothing like a little autumnal chill and diminished daylight to get people thinking about their home's inadequate insulation, leaky ducts and watt-guzzling incandescent bulbs. They'll get no sympathy from The Bottom Line, though, because it probably...
Tags: Energy and Resource Industries, Home Energy Saving, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Environmental Issues, Condos and Houses
Oct 28, 2012
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Feb 4, 2013
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May 19, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jan 26, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
Dec 3, 2012
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Nov 28, 2012
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Nov 18, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Oct 27, 2012
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