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The Settlement Story of Major Whistleblowers in the Banking Crisis

by The Investigative Newswire on March 19, 2012 · comment

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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 [...]

Solar Power Stimulus Failures Cast Shadows Over a Renewable Energy Future

by The Investigative Newswire on October 31, 2011 · comment

Billions loaned to California energy projects in wake of Solyndra by Daniel J. Goldstein and Serene Fang for California Watch The U.S. Department of Energy has moved ahead with 4.5 billion in new loans for solar energy projects [...]

Consuming Foreclosed Properties With False Legal Fees & Anonymity: Private Debt Collection

by The Investigative Newswire on November 3, 2010 · 1 Comment

The New Tax Man: Big Banks and Hedge Funds Lacking Oversight, Wall Street Titans Charge Property Owners Steep Fees – and Can Seize Homes By Fred Schulte and Ben Protess Huffington Post Investigative Fund Interactive StoryPowered by StoryRiver [...]

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

by The Investigative Newswire on May 10, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

Financial Regulatory Reform: The Credit Rating Agency Bill

by The Investigative Newswire on December 28, 2009 · comment

By Lagan Sebert Huffington Post Investigative Fund 3:59 pm | 18 Dec 2009 After nearly a year of debate, the U.S. House passed an historic overhaul of the nation’s financial system last week. Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank [...]

The Credit Rating Agency Story

by The Investigative Newswire on November 16, 2009 · comment

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

by The Investigative Newswire on November 16, 2009 · comment

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 [...]

Transparency: “Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?”

by The Investigative Newswire on May 11, 2009 · comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2009 8:10 AM CONTACT: Center for Public Integrity Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown? Center for Public Integrity Investigation Identifies Top 25 Subprime Lenders and their Wall Street Backers WASHINGTON – May 6 – The [...]

Wall Street & Deregulatory Actions

by The Investigative Newswire on March 16, 2009 · comment

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 [...]

Top Ten Worst Corporations of 08′

by The Investigative Newswire on February 13, 2009 · comment

The System Implodes The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 by Robert Weissman 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor’s annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year. In the 20 years that we’ve published our [...]