All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The NY Times:

By 2002, investigators across the United States appeared to be closing in on Raj Rajaratnam, a wealthy hedge fund executive, for insider trading. (read the article)

The NY Times:
Two United Nations human rights officials urged the government of the Philippines on Thursday to pursue a thorough investigation of the election-related massacre in which 57 people were killed and to take measures to prevent such an atrocity from happening again. (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 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)

CNN:

Several people who traveled from New York to Pakistan last year with a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack have since returned to the United States, sources close to the investigation told CNN. (read the article)

Reuters:

FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday there was no imminent security threat related to an investigation that included raids of New York homes this week in an apparent search for homemade explosives. (read the article)

NY Times:

China formally arrested an Australian citizen and three other employees of the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto late Tuesday on suspicions of commercial bribery and trade secrets infringement in a case that has rocked the global steel industry and created a diplomatic uproar. NY Times (read the article)

AP:

The collision that sent a sightseeing helicopter full of tourists and a small plane into the Hudson River on Saturday comes less than a month after a federal watchdog warned that safety oversight of sightseeing and other for-hire flights is too lax. AP (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)

NY Times:

The number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels. (read the article)