Corporate & Political Crime
Merck Pays a Pittance for Mass Deaths
5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion Free Ride
"Where's our money"?
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone:
The People vs. Goldman Sachs
Interview with Matt Taibbi: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/matt-taibbi-wall-street-arrests-commit-crimes_n_865631.html
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? An insightful story by Matt Taibbi: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817
A chart showing companies paying no taxes: http://payupnow.org/
Top US Corporations Outsourced More Than 2.4 Million American Jobs Over the Last Decade
Bipartisan support builds for slicing corporate tax rate
America Is Not Broke - speech by Michael Moore in Madison
Related story. Does this surprise anyone?
Hedge Fund Gamblers Earn the Same In One Hour As a Middle-Class Household Makes In Over 47 Years
Not to rub salt in your wounds, but.... The False Debate on the Debt
83% of the largest corporations "reported having subsidiaries in jurisdictions listed as tax havens or financial privacy jurisdictions" according to a new GAO report.
Boeing’s Reward for Paying No Federal Taxes Over Last Three Years? A $35 Billion Federal Contract (See my commentary for 3/25/11)
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? See Interview with author of this piece: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/2/22/matt_taibbi_why_isnt_wall_street_in_jail
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Chevron ordered to pay $8 billion by Ecuador court
Who's responsible for the West Virginia Mining Disaster? Massey Energy? A Series of articles.
Is this criminal? Wall Street Bonuses Rise as Big 3 May Pay $30 Billion
The Bernard Madoff Fraud Case.
Click here for a series of reports in the New York Times: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/bernard_l_madoff/index.html
Articles related to the financial crisis
Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases -- for starters
Two articles by Naomi Klein on the bailout:
Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
Free Market Ideology is Far From Finished
Meltdown and Bailout: Why Our Economic System Is on the Verge of Collapse
The Rich Are Staging a Coup Right Now
AIG to Get Additional $37.8 Billion
Primer on Wall Street Meltdown
Bank rescue plan to test capitalism
FBI Struggles to Handle Wave of Financial Fraud Cases
Corporate Crimes
Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime
Fraud in the Real Estate and Mortgage Industry
Health Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient's policy
Papers Show Wachovia Knew of Thefts
US Ignores Finding on Student Lender
A different kind of corruption: religion mixing with politics
God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the GOP Crusade for Values Voters
Blackwater – a series of articles
Hospital drug errors far from uncommon
Bribes and Spies in the Drug Industry
Antitrust law losing its teeth
The Crimes of Greed vs. the Crimes of Government
Rise in Bribery Tests Integrity of US Border
Enron Chiefs Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy
Key Events in the Fall of Enron and Resulting Trials
Thugs in Blue Suits: Corporate and Political Crime in America
An Overview of Some Recent Corporate Scandals
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html
High Court Rules for Oil Firms
Corporation Convicted of Homicide Sentenced to Pay $1.7 Million
The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail
Vanquishing the American Dream by Jim Hightower
Of Snowboarders and Corporations - http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=104&ItemID=9697
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade: http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/top100.html