All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

CBS/AP:
More than 100 bodies that were supposed to rest in peace at a historic suburban Chicago cemetery may have been dug up instead, and dumped into a mass grave -- in a scheme by employees to profit by reselling the burial plots.
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CBS News:
Just when the worlds' attention is focused on London, what the host doesn't want is a domestic scandal - especially one that involves the cabinet minister in charge of homeland security and the police, reports CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Justice Department is ramping up criminal investigations into the collapse of the market for investments known as auction-rate securities. [subscription service]
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U.S. News & World Reports:
The Mortgage Bankers Association on Friday released its National Delinquency Survey for the second quarter.
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Bloomberg:
Eight Bank of America Corp. executives were subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, adding pressure on the bank to settle a probe of auction- rate securities, said a person familiar with negotiations.
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CBS News/AP:
Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars.
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AP:
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will intensify his probe into auction-rate securities by focusing on Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, a person close to the investigation said Wednesday.
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Washington Times:
Wall Street's costs to end federal and state investigations of the auction-rate bond market's collapse may wind up exceeding the sanctions from abuses of mutual funds and analyst research in the past decade.
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Bloomberg News:
Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into credit-rating companies found the firms improperly managed conflicts of interest and violated internal procedures in granting top rankings to mortgage bonds.
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Financial Times:
Moody’s, the credit rating agency, on Tuesday said it was beginning disciplinary proceedings against some of its staff as it admitted it had incorrectly rated about $1bn of complex debt securities due to a computer error.
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