Afghanistan takes over biggest private bank to avert collapse Gulf News | Kabul: Authorities have intervened to try to avert the potentially disastrous collapse of Afghanistan's biggest bank, after uncovering a web of shady transactions involving well-connected insiders. | The suspect dealings at Kabul Bank, the shareholders of which include a brother of President Hamid...
Health care reform benefits beginning next month The Examiner | On Sept. 23rd, several changes will take place in regards with the health care bill passed in March. A few other changes have already been implemented from the bill and more will happen in 2011 and 2014. Here are the ones that will be happening in a few weeks: Insurance companies will not be allow...
Raju's sons not allowed access to bank accounts The Hindu | Special Correspondent | HYDERABAD: The special court going into Satyam Computers fraud on Friday refused to defreeze the bank accounts of the sons of B. Ramalinga Raju on the ground that the CBI was still investigating the diversion of funds from t...
The man who fooled everyone NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Loizos Michaels liked to call himself "The Phantom". | It was part of his arrogance but also true. He only ever introduced himself as "Michael". No one knew his surname for a long time and even now ...
'He's the best con artist NZ has ever seen' NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | It could have been a scene from The Sopranos. | A late-model BMW with the licence plate "Dadu" - Greek for Daddy - pulled over in Ponsonby Rd and parked outside a recently opened restaurant. | On cu...
Eminem's former producers entitled to more money for downloads and ringtones, court rules Star Tribune | SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has found Eminem's former production company is entitled to more money from downloads of the rapper's songs and ringtones. | A federal jury last year had ruled against F.B.T. Productions LLC in its lawsuit ag...
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Firm breaks Pag-IBIG rules on loans Inquirer | (First of two parts) | CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—In the files of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund), Joel is listed as a borrower of a P635,000 loan for a 36-square mete...
Cap-And-Trade Is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns The New York Times | BRUSSELS — Manufacturing a gas commonly used for cooling and air-conditioning turns out to produce another unwanted gas that can contribute inordinately to the warming of t...
Gambling hard for the money The Star | Singapore is winning big thanks to the new casinos in the city-state. But the high-rollers are also losing large amounts of money, causing consternation among the public. The gam...
Ex-CFO of engineering firm gets prison term for embezzling nearly $3.8M The Examiner | The former chief financial officer of Houston-based LJA Engineering Inc., which has offices in Austin, San Antonio and The Woodlands, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for carrying out a $3.7 million-plus embezzlement scheme. | C...
Ex-chief of finance agency makes court appearance in fraud case North Jersey | The former chairman of Bergen County’s financing agency made his first appearance in federal court Friday, three days after being indicted on fraud charges. | Ronald O’Malley, who oversaw the Bergen County Improvement Authority from 200...
Afghan officials resist clean-up of Kabul Bank as scandal engulfs elite The Guardian | Brother of president Hamid Karzai calls for US to guarantee deposits amid fears collapse would threaten police and army salaries Customers wait to take money from Kabul Bank, which has seen $160m withdrawn in two days. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Ge...
Mirwaiz invites Geelani, Malik for Eid, seeks to forge Hurriyat unity The Times Of India SRINAGAR: Attempting to forge the elusive unity between the various separatist groups in Kashmir, the chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on Friday invited the hardline separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and JKLF's Yasin Malik, to attend the Eid congregation next week. | The All-Party Hurriyat Conference ( APHC...
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How WikiLeaks Keeps Its Funding Secret Wall Street Journal By JEANNE WHALEN and DAVID CRAWFORD | The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial network to protect a big secret of its own—its funding. | Some governments and corporations angered by the site's publications have already sued...
