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...with conspiring to pass secrets to reporters and an Israeli official. The government discovered, though, that the prosecution would require the use of - you guessed it - state secrets. Instead of shutting down the case, Justice Department lawyers asked a federal judge in Virginia last week to approve an elaborate scheme for keeping the information confidential. It involved playing recordings of confidential wiretaps through headphones so only the judge, the defendants' lawyers and the jurors could listen. The public would be shut out, a result that the two lobbyists, who have pleaded not guilty, say would hurt their defense. Aside from...
...Then there was the West Kowloon Cultural District, a $5 billion greenfield project to build a residential, commercial and cultural complex on 40 hectares of prime harborfront owned by the government. In a city where land is worth its width in gold, the scheme, launched by Tung, ran into legislative gridlock amid concerns of a sweetheart deal for the developer that would be chosen. Critics also questioned the government's wisdom-and expertise-in creating a costly arts hub without first gauging the level of public interest in it. Today, West Kowloon, possibly some of the most valuable real estate...
...Journal’s team of Charles Forelle, James Bandler, and Mark Maremont laid bare a scheme in which companies timed their options grants to dates when their stock prices were particularly low without informing shareholders. More than 130 companies, including UnitedHealth Group and Apple, are under federal investigation in the wake of the Journal’s series, and more than 60 executives have been terminated...
...Gerber's scheme, a former insider at the department tells TIME, "was to short-circuit the money before it reached the university" and thus have his department directly receive payments. To bypass the university's accounting service, Gerber had one of his secretaries rent an outside post-office box under the name "Tulane Pathology Group." Bonnie Jones Jackson, who was in charge of billing for the department, said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur...
...estimate is in the realm of $1, 250 per year (used books are about $300 less), leaving a student on financial aid the modest sum of around $50 per week for all of their other personal expenses. But, of course, there lies the nearly irresistible temptation within this budgeting scheme to compromise on books—after all, most are on reserve in Lamont—in favor of spending on non-academic pursuits, whether those are concerts, nights out with friends, spring break trips, or furniture. Students seem to be doing just that: a survey of students on financial...