Corporate & Political Crime

 

NEW!!!  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

More articles are found here: The Madoff Case

 

Articles related to the financial crisis

 

Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases -- for starters

 

Two articles by Naomi Klein on the bailout:

The Bailout Profiteers

 

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

 

Keating 5 ring a bell?

 

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

 

Socialized Compensation

 

FBI Struggles to Handle Wave of Financial Fraud Cases

 

Corporate Crimes

 

Corporate Crime Quiz

 

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

 

One Thousand Lives A Month

 

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

 

Merck Agrees to Settle Vioxx Suits for $4.85 Billion

 

Hospital drug errors far from uncommon

Review of a new book: Stolen Without a Gun

 

Myanmar and Big Oil

Corporate Drug Pushers

Bribes and Spies in the Drug Industry

 

Antitrust law losing its teeth

Shielding the Powerful

The Crimes of Greed vs. the Crimes of Government

 

Rise in Bribery Tests Integrity of US Border 

 

Institute for Policy Studies report on CEO pay in defense industries: http://www.faireconomy.org/reports/2006/ExecutiveExcess2006.pdf

 

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

 

Enron

 

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2005

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html

 

High Court Rules for Oil Firms

March 1, 2006

A Texaco Inc. and Shell Oil Co. joint venture didn't break antitrust law when it set pump prices in the Western United States, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, ending a years-long battle over allegations that the companies inflated prices and forced dealers out of business.

For complete story:  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas1mar01,0,2370612.story?coll=la-home-business

Corporation Convicted of Homicide Sentenced to Pay $1.7 Million

 

The Costs of Corporate Crime

 

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail

 

Vanquishing the American Dream by Jim Hightower

The New Robber Barons - http://www.counterpunch.org/

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