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...October, Congress passed a law that said banks who held Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred shares, which were essentially rendered worthless when the government took over the two large mortgage guarantors, can count the loss on that investment as a regular business loss, not an investment loss. The Federal Government has estimated the change will save banks as much as $3 billion in tax payments this year. Improved Tax Break on Foreign Operations...
...credit unions faced with mounting losses on securities tied to home loans and other lending. Corporate credit unions act as banks to retail credit unions, which are the institutions consumers interact with. In addition, the plan provides $2 billion for retail credit unions to cut interest rates on mortgages held by homeowners struggling to make payments. All of the funding is structured as loans and is due to be paid back. (See TIME's top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...private security companies, political parties or loose business networks. Allegations of land grabs, rape, murder and kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where captives are held for ransom. Afghan journalists covering their crimes have been harassed by police or thrown in jail. Last year Samimi received a phone call from General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally who was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as Army Chief of Staff, threatening to have her raped...
After years during which prisoners were held without trial, the question is whether this surge in prosecutions and publicity is a case of due process finally starting to work - or a hurried effort designed to tie Obama's hands as he tries to shut the facility. Once they are under way, Obama could find it politically and legally difficult to stop the controversial proceedings or shift them out of Guantánamo. "All this activity, and an expanding list of trials that cannot possibly conclude before the next President takes office, is irresponsible," says Adam Schiff, a California Democrat...
...Hartmann. But his legacy will live on. A few weeks ago, a military judge brushed aside strong opposition from Hartmann's prosecutors and freed Osama bin Laden's driver, held at Guantanamo for nearly seven years. Then a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush demanded the liberation of five Algerian-born prisoners also held at Guantánamo since 2001. The reason: evidence of their purported crimes is lacking. On January 26 - six days after Obama's inauguration - a Guantánamo court is scheduled to begin hearing the case of Omar Khadr, who was taken into custody...