Haiti’s New Team of Investigative Journalists

A man exits a restaurant after he looked for his belongings. An earthquake rocked Port au Prince on January 12, 2010. photo: Marco Dormino (Wikimedia Commons)

Where Has All the Money Gone in Haiti? Ask A New Group of Investigative Reporters by Kathie Klarreich for International Center for Journalists When I first started training Haitian journalists in investigative reporting skills in the summer of 2010, I [...]

Measuring the Risk of Political Corruption in the United States

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Grading the nation: How accountable is your state? by Caitlin Ginley for iWatch News The tales are sadly familiar to even the most casual observer of state politics. In Georgia, more than 650 government employees accepted gifts from vendors [...]

Drilling Risks: Research Suggests Natural Gas Leases Violate SEC Rules of Fraud

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Gas Drilling Doublespeak Landowners Say Companies Kept Them in the Dark on Risks by Environmental Working Group (EWG) Gas drilling companies routinely warn their investors of a litany of possible disasters – such as leaks, spills, explosions, bodily [...]

The Whistle Blown on Bank Fraud

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Whistleblowers ignored, punished by lenders, dozens of former employees say Mortgage fraud involved many lenders, former employees say by Michael Hudson for iwatch news Darcy Parmer ran into trouble soon after she started her job as a fraud [...]

Hake Mislabeling at Local Markets

A 30 cm long European hake caught off the coast of Spain. photo: Paul Harrison (Wikimedia Commons)

Consumers in Spain trust the mild-flavored white flesh of hake, the most popular fish in a country that eats more seafood than almost any other in Europe. Hake is considered safe for pregnant women, and kids crunch into [...]

New Documentary: DEBTOCRACY (Watch Full Movie)

For the first time in Greece, a documentary producer of the beholder. The DEBTOCRACY searches for the causes of the debt crisis and propose solutions that are hidden from the government and the mainstream media. The documentary will be distributed free by the end of March without usage rights and broadcast and subtitled in at least three languages.

Expert Studies Ghostwritten by Drug Company

The documents—some of which date back to late 1990s—were recently unsealed in litigation over a GlaxoSmithKline product. We saw them after they were attached to a letter released this week by a nonprofit watchdog group urging the National Institutes of Health to crack down on ghostwriting in medical academia. The documents and the letter by Project on Government Oversight together outline several examples of how a major drug company contributed to the funding, writing and approval of material published in medical journals and elsewhere.

"Too Big to Jail?" | Banks Escape Fraud & Borrowers Face Charges | Video

Executives unscathed as regulators let banks report criminal fraud By David Heath Huffington Post Investigative Fund The financial crisis has spawned hundreds of criminal prosecutions for alleged fraud. Yet so far, defendants have been mostly minor players such [...]

Free Market Economy | Why Cheating & Fraud Call The Shots

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By Lagan Sebert and David Heath Huffington Post Investigative Fund 10:41 am | 21 Dec 2009 William K. Black is a former senior deputy chief counsel at the federal Office of Thrift Supervision. During the savings and loan [...]