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...times, the top executives did contend that regulation might have been too loose leading up to the crisis, but they stressed that that was no longer the case. All thought that the government needed the power to resolve large troubled institutions. Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, said the resolution authority could be based on the way the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. closes down smaller banks, which involves auctioning off troubled institutions to stronger competitors, often with a government guarantee for risky assets. Also questioned by the panel was Morgan Stanley's chairman, John Mack. (See 25 people...
...Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cambridge residents can be a sketchy crew, and James W. Lewis may be the sketchiest among them. In 1982, seven people died in the Chicago area because some Tylenol pills they took were laced with cyanide. (CYANIDE!) The case was never solved—and the $100,000 reward offered by Johnson & Johnson for finding the culprit was never claimed. At the time, Lewis became associated with the case because he wrote a letter demanding $1 million from Johnson & Johnson to stop the killings. He spent over a decade behind bars for this act of extortion, but he was never...
Last week, Lewis and his wife provided DNA samples to investigators, which may be the evidence needed to clinch the case. WCVB Boston reported last year that the FBI has suspected that Lewis is the man behind the murders. With today's new advanced forensic technology, they may finally be able to prove...
...artifacts taken from the Machu Picchu site years ago. It all started between 1911-15 when Hiram Bingham III (such a Yalie name) rediscovered the ancient city of Machu Picchu and began shipping things he found back to New Haven. Yale has now asked a court to dismiss the case based on a statute of limitations issue under Connecticut law, even though there is no such statute of limitations issue under Peruvian law. Again, such a Yalie move...