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...Moore eagerly counts the ways. He lays out the "Dead Peasants" insurance loophole by which a corporation can take out policies on their rank-and-file workers and, when they die, reap millions in tax-free payouts. To support his position that airlines are risking catastrophe by underpaying their pilots, he excerpts the Congressional testimony of Hudson River hero Chesley Sullenberger, who notes that his pay had been cut 40% and he lost his pension. In an episode that might have come from a Dickens novel, Moore tells of two Pa. judges who shut down a state-run detention center...
Harry Markopolos was among those who made repeated complaints to the SEC raising detailed red flags about Madoff's operations. However, the report found that a branch chief had taken an "instant dislike" of Markopolos and declined even to pick up the "several inch thick file folder on Madoff that Markopolos offered." (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...Inspector General's report released Monday there are references to the considerable doubt inside the CIA about interrogating prisoners of war. Although CIA management apparently never raised those doubts with its political bosses, the rank and file understood how little they themselves knew about interrogation. Few had ever conducted an interrogation, let alone an interrogation employing physical coercion. They also worried about the legal guidance coming out of the Department of Justice. (Read Five Revelations from the CIA Report...
Investors may be jittery, having watched a number of mortgage REITs, such as New Century Financial Corp. and American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the past couple of years, and others, such as Arbor Realty Trust and Gramercy Capital, struggling to stay afloat. Even Starwood's newest offering could stir concerns if investors check out the sour performance of one of Sternlicht's previous specialty finance companies, iStar Financial...
...Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles conducted a detailed examination of the new evidence, but when it decided that Davis did not deserve mercy, the prisoner was forced to ask a panel of judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for special permission under the AEDPA to file a second federal appeal - this one based on the simple claim that Davis is plainly innocent...