All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

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)

The Dallas Morning News:

After terrorists slammed airliners into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, the law-enforcement community had one overriding priority – preventing another attack. (read the article)

CBS/AP:

Researchers say a small number of young law enforcement officers who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup operation have developed an immune system cancer. (read the article)

NY Times:

A trade group representing coal producers and power companies says that it indirectly hired a lobbying firm that sent fake letters to lawmakers purporting to be from nonprofit groups opposed to climate-change legislation. (read the article)

McClatchy Newspapers :
In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia's poorest countries.
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BBC News:
Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says.
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CBS EconWatch:A top aide to disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff had employees generate trading tickets, thought to be fake, in order to dupe investors into thinking their returns were legitimate, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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AFP:
French judges on Thursday questioned trader Jerome Kerviel for probably the last time as they wrap up a year-long probe into the biggest rogue trading scandal in history and prepare for trial.
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Washington Post:
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reopened an investigation into insider-trading allegations at a major hedge fund, two people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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Washington Post:
New evidence has emerged in an insider-trading investigation that the Securities and Exchange Commission closed two years ago without filing charges, raising questions on Capitol Hill about the government's oversight of what was once one of the nation's most prominent hedge funds.
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