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...been under investigation by the Department of Justice since last summer for allegedly helping wealthy Americans hide $20 billion in undisclosed offshore accounts to evade taxes. To absolve itself of criminal charges, the bank, one of the world's largest wealth managers, agreed to pay a $780 million penalty and release the names of 250 clients whom the Internal Revenue Service suspected of evading taxes. (See pictures of tea-party tax protests...
...only doctor in Bayou La Batre, a town where about 80% of the population lives below the poverty line. As a consequence, she often treats patients for free or asks them to pay when they can. In 1994, Benjamin was named one of TIME's 50 most promising leaders aged 40 and under...
...When you're face-to-face with a patient, you can't worry about the fact that they can't pay." -As quoted in a full-page ad in the Journal of the American Medical Association as part of the organization's campaign to get doctors to provide 50 hours of charity care each year (Chicago Tribune, February...
...When people couldn't pay, she didn't charge them. When the clinic wasn't making money, she didn't take a salary for herself. When Hurricane George destroyed the clinic in 1998, she made house calls to all her patients while it was rebuilt. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed it again and left most of her town homeless, she mortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to rebuild that clinic for a second time." -President Obama describing Benjamin's dedication to her community (White House transcript, July...
...Though French government officials have shown a willingness to placate - and pay off - rambunctious protesters in the past, they may think twice about bending to the threats of blowing New Fabris sky-high. That violent ultimatum is only the most recent in a series of escalating acts of intimidation by French workers facing layoffs. Last April, French fishermen furious over the effect European Union fish quotas were having on their bottom line blocked traffic in and out of North Atlantic ports for two days until they were promised state aid. Recently, France has witnessed a series of so-called bossnappings...