The Department of Labor is asking a whistleblower in the auction-rate securities meltdown to show that a UBS AG subsidiary, the company he complained about, is covered under the federal whistleblower statute, according to the plaintiff's attorney.
Look at it this way, McCain=No Insurance. But don’t worry about McCain, he gets the best money can buy, courtsey of us, the taxpayers.
It seems like an effective pre-buttal, co-opting the theme before it’s used against them.
I wanted to indicate again
SEATTLE, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys representing consumers in a
case accusing McKesson (NYSE: MCK) of illegally rigging the price of virtually
every prescription drug have crossed the final procedural hurdles and are now
preparing for a trial
So Wednesday and Thursday I threw up a bit while relaxing after my day of trading.
Because I had the unfortunate circumstance of listening to the Democratic Convention where a train of politicians, including Clinton and Biden, pontificated about how
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WASHINGTON -- High oil prices are energizing a nascent liquefied-coal industry that hopes to power trains, planes and automobiles from the
The changes bar the government from demanding that companies turn over confidential legal materials to win leniency in plea deals. The revisions, announced by Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip at the New York Stock Exchange, also prevent prosecutors
Congratulations to Lewis D. Kaplan, the federal judge whose withering critique of prosecutorial abuse in the KPMG tax-shelter case was vindicated yesterday by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
In fact, you can double that applause, because yesterday
There should be no doubt
that Gazprom is a creature of the Russian government and an instrument
of national power projection for the Russian state. It is a
corporation, majority owned by the Russian government, that extracts,
processes, and
Any comedy that can combine death, abortion, Jewish ritual and a mariachi band without curdling into complete lunacy deserves a modicum of respect. In the case of “My Mexican Shivah,” more would be pushing it.
What raises this uninhibited hybrid
DENVER - The only consensus in the progressive community on energy is that the federal government needs to be spending a lot more money subsidizing alternative energy. Even the amount of money needed is in dispute. The far left Apollo Alliance is