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The Settlement Story of Major Whistleblowers in the Banking Crisis

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Four Whistleblowers Who Sounded the Alarm on Banks’ Mortgage Shenanigans by Cora Currier for ProPublica Buried in the sweeping mortgage settlementwith banks, for which final documents were filed this week, are five whistleblower casesthat shed light on the litany of foreclosure abuses by [...]

Video Investigations: June 2011

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A compilation of video investigations gathered by The Erie Wire week-to-week every month. For more information on online investigative reports look to our “Investigative Newswire” feed uploaded in real-time on the bottom left of every page. If you have a story to contribute to these reports; please use the author’s email in the right column.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Who's Bailed Out?

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This detailed report from Pro Publica provides comprehensive data to the whereabouts of taxpayer dollars. We encourage all of our readers to take a close look at the long list of recipients. When viewing click on any recipient [...]

The Credit Rating Agency Story

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How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress and SEC By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund & Disseminated by The Erie Wire 2:49 pm | 11 Nov 2009 Editor’s Note: This is [...]

Nationalizing Citigroup

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The Nationalization Option: Considering a Government Takeover of Citigroup by Robert Weissman (President of Public Citizen) of the Multinational Monitor & Disseminated by The Erie Wire Citigroup is among the world’s largest financial institutions. As of July, it [...]

Wall Street & Deregulatory Actions

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Published on Saturday, March 7, 2009 by CommonDreams.org 12 Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown Wall Street’s Best Investment – Part II by Robert Weissman & Disseminated by The Erie Wire What can $5 billion buy in Washington? Quite [...]