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...Buying land may be complicated because fraud is sometimes difficult to detect. Land in the ocean could be sold as dry land, but confirming the status of real estate is not outside the scope of the federal government's ability to invest its own money wisely. There might even be thousands of new jobs created for "land inspectors" who have, as their sole duty, ascertaining whether a piece of property exists...
...There are, of course, a number of reasons to object to sharing the cost of new employees at private enterprises. The system is subject to fraud. That is accurate, but if the IRS monitors the wages of the people being hired at least the government would have a reasonably accurate count of workers and what they are paid. Businesses that will lie to the IRS are likely to lie to almost any branch of government. It is in their character...
...needed prohibition of some financial instruments?, she answered cautiously: "We will explore prohibiting some instruments." She added that one big problem was turf wars among regulatory agencies. "Regulators need to cooperate," she said. "We haven't shared in past, we need a maximum number of eyes" to stop fraud...
...Monday the U.S. district attorney's office in Central Islip, N.Y., arrested Nicholas Cosmo, founder and owner of Agape World Inc. and Agape Merchant Advance LLC in Hauppauge, N.Y., charging him with a $370 million mail fraud. Agape claims it has been in the business of providing private bridge loans to commercial real estate companies and builders. The Feds don't seem to agree...
...Madoff's colossal fraud moves from the headlines into memory, his name will remain as a caution to all future investors. No one in this generation at least will ever believe that every dollar invested in the market will turn into...