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Racketeering, Smuggling, Sex with Guards: 25 Indicted in Massive Baltimore Prison Scandal
Twenty-five people, including 13 guards, have been busted in a scandal featuring everything from racketeering to smuggling to an inmate impregnating female...
Must-Reads from Around the World
A growing number of people are converting to Islam in France, pawnshops in Macau bankroll mainland Chinese gamblers and Fidel Castro makes his longest public...
The Money Cop
Four years on from the financial crisis, new scandals still seem to break out every few months. HSBC, the big British bank, just agreed to a $1.9 billion...
Elites Still Bypassing Measures to Combat Money Laundering
Machines that count huge stacks of cash and are used to identify money laundering are not being used when "very important persons" and "very very important...
Why Dirty-Looking Money Makes Us Spend More
In a finding that gives a whole new meaning to the term “money laundering” researchers found that people are driven to spend old or grimy bills more readily than...
Wells Fargo Fires Employee Who Committed 10-Cent Fraud in 1963
The truth always comes out. If it takes half a year or half a century, the truth always comes out. So 68-year-old Richard Eggers really should have known that...
Teodorin Obiang: The Dictator’s Son with a Malibu Mansion and a Warrant for His Arrest
Last Friday, just as the work week in France was winding down in readiness for Bastille Day celebrations, French authorities quietly issued an arrest warrant for...
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 17, 2012
Drug Money – A U.S. Senate probe has discovered that HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, allegedly facilitated Mexican drug money laundering. The BBC reports that...
Vatican Confidential: Why Are So Many Rumors Coming out of the Holy See?
Maybe the Vatican is not so good at keeping secrets after all. In the past few weeks, the Holy See has sprung a series of leaks. Their contents range from...
None Dare Call It Money Laundering…
Sure it’s just a coincidence that one day after Saudi Arabia says it will help fill any oil shortage caused by cutting off Iranian exports to world markets, the...
