Posts Tagged ‘feds’
Fed’s Tarullo warns that banking reforms are losing steam
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012A 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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Saturday, April 14th, 2012All feds pay the price for GSA scandal
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012As 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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Fed’s push on housing crosses a line, critics say
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012Senior 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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Plan your weekend: The Wammies, Neal Brennan
Thursday, February 16th, 2012We 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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Judge: Loughner Still Not Fit For Trial
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Feds, attorneys will discuss ruling on Monday.
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Judge: Loughner Still Not Fit For Trial
Anonymous Hacked Justice Dept., FBI’s Sites
Friday, January 20th, 2012After feds shut down popular file-sharing website.
Revised GDP figures offer hope for final three months of 2011
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011The 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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New snow policy for feds: Shelter in place
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011The 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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Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme, customer accounts were looted of $440 million
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011NEW 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
Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme, customer accounts were looted of $440 million
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011NEW 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
Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme, customer accounts were looted of $440 million
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011NEW 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
The words behind the riots
Friday, August 12th, 2011From 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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Secret 2008 Fed Loans Uncovered
Friday, May 27th, 2011Without 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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