All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The NY Times:
Members of the political elite in Kenya, a nation where top leaders have long escaped prosecution for corruption and other crimes, could now face an international investigation into the violence that shook the country after disputed elections last year. (read the article)

The Wall Street Journal:
Fourteen more people have been criminally charged in a growing insider-trading scheme, but evidence exists of a number of additional players who haven't yet been publicly identified. (read the article)

http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/global_climate_change_lobby/overview/> The Center For Public Integrity:
Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to an eight-country report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (read the article)

The NY Times:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. (read the article)

The Washington Times:
During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings. (read the article)

The Wall Street Journal:

Scottish authorities are searching for new lines of inquiry in the Lockerbie bombing case, including a search for possible accomplices, now that convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has dropped his appeal, according to Scottish officials.
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AP:
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators. (read the article)

AP:
Jeffry Picower, a philanthropist accused of profiting more than $7 billion from the investment schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, was found at the bottom of the pool at his oceanside mansion and died Sunday, police said. He was 67
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The Canadian Press:
The Quebec government is brushing off widespread calls for a public inquiry into the murky world where politics, the Mafia, and the construction business allegedly interconnect, and instead forging ahead with its own solution. (read the article)

The NY Times:
The Afghan opium harvest is feeding a $65 billion global trade in heroin each year, which now kills many more people in NATO countries in a year than the number of NATO soldiers who have died on the battlefield in Afghanistan since 2001, Antonio Maria Costa, the senior United Nations official on drugs and crime, said Thursday. (read the article)