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A top federal regulator overseeing the banking sector said Wednesday that reforms begun after the financial crisis are still far from complete and raised concerns that the energy behind the effort may be fading. Read full article > >

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Fed’s Tarullo warns that banking reforms are losing steam

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Megaupload Data in Limbo

As could have been expected, the scandal about the exorbitant 2010 General Services Administration conference at a gambling casino just outside Las Vegas has become a political football and federal employees are the ones getting tackled. Read full article > >

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All feds pay the price for GSA scandal

Senior Federal Reserve officials are injecting themselves into a noisy debate over how to solve the housing crisis, drawing criticism from some lawmakers who say the Fed has no business straying from its traditional role as the U.S. central bank. Read full article > >

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Fed’s push on housing crosses a line, critics say

We have once again put together a list of a few of our favorite events happening this weekend . Some of our picks: an awards show and concert featuring some of the area’s best musicians, stand-up from one of the writers behind “Chappelle’s Show” and a new exhibit on how the press covers presidential elections. Read full article > >

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Plan your weekend: The Wammies, Neal Brennan

Feds, attorneys will discuss ruling on Monday.

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Judge: Loughner Still Not Fit For Trial

After feds shut down popular file-sharing website.

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Anonymous Hacked Justice Dept., FBI’s Sites

The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the summer than earlier thought, according to new data . But the reason could bode well for the final months of the year. Economic activity, as measured by gross domestic product, rose at an annual rate of only 2 percent in the July-through-September quarter, not the 2.5 percent that the Commerce Department estimated late last month. Read full article > >

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Revised GDP figures offer hope for final three months of 2011

The new marching orders for federal workers during snowstorms this winter: Leave the office by the time we tell you to go home—or stay put until we say the roads are safe. In the first overhaul in 14 years to its bad-weather policy, the government is vowing to avoid the chaos that unfolded on Jan. 26 when thousands of commuters were trapped in their cars in gridlock for up to 12 hours. Most left the office just as a fast-moving snowstorm struck at rush hour. The government took the heat for dismissing people too late and not telling transportation officials. Read full article > >

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New snow policy for feds: Shelter in place

NEW YORK — An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was “not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme,” federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The popular Full Tilt Poker website illegally raided player accounts to fund operations and make lavish payments to its owners, Justice Department lawyers said in a revised civil lawsuit filed in New York. Read full article > >

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Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme, customer accounts were looted of $440 million

NEW YORK — An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was “not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme,” federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The popular Full Tilt Poker website illegally raided player accounts to fund operations and make lavish payments to its owners, Justice Department lawyers said in a revised civil lawsuit filed in New York. Read full article > >

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Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme, customer accounts were looted of $440 million

NEW YORK — An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was “not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme,” federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The popular Full Tilt Poker website illegally raided player accounts to fund operations and make lavish payments to its owners, Justice Department lawyers said in a revised civil lawsuit filed in New York. Read full article > >

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Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme, customer accounts were looted of $440 million

From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as “feds” to the nuanced use of the word “community”, the language of the riots can tell us something.

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The words behind the riots

Without notifying the public of their transactions, the Feds doled out money to three banks at interest rates as low as 0.01 percent during the 2008 financial crisis, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and the Royal Bank of…

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Secret 2008 Fed Loans Uncovered