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...executive producer of “The Wire”.Simon began by speaking about the production and critical issues of the show, including economics, the policies of the drug war, and the harsh realities of urban life in Baltimore. “I began to realize the fraud of the drug war,” Simon said, speaking from his experience as a journalist. “The drug war had become increasingly untenable on many sides as policy and began to appear immoral.”Simon nevertheless admitted that, while his years of work for the Baltimore...
Mark Alexander, a Dallas attorney, says he's ethically obligated to do what's best for his clients, "and that includes saving them money." So when one of them asks him to research a securities-fraud topic, for example, or breach of contract, he doesn't even think about applying his $395 hourly rate. Instead, he calls Atlas Legal Research, an outsourcing company based in Irving, Texas, that uses lawyers in India to provide the service for $60 per hr. "When a client pays me a $25,000 retainer and I can save them money, I will do so," says...
...agencies. The same database that the prying workers peered into is being opened up to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and other federal bureaucracies. The stated aim: To tap into the records "for counterterrorism and other purposes such as border security and fraud prevention...
...limited action, other events on the continent point to the AU's weakness. "Having stepped in to broker a solution and end the violence in Kenya, will it apply the same standards to monitoring Zimbabwe's elections (on Saturday)? Or will it wait to be embarrassed by election fraud and the resulting violence? In Kenya, the AU's credibility was on the line, and the problem was just manageable enough to raise sufficient will to see it through. [But] the big problems are just too big for the AU's limited capacity and will...
...Percentage of properties in foreclosure last year in Florida, the state with the highest rate of mortgage fraud...