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Courageous Whistleblower Exposes Foreign Currency Manipulation at BNY Mellon

Courageous Whistleblower Exposes Foreign Currency Manipulation at BNY Mellon In the past few weeks, we have heard about the ongoing state and federal investigations into the foreign currency manipulation costs for pension funds by the Bank of New York Mellon. The investigations were brought about as a result of whistleblower Grant Wilson, who was a...
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Student Loans and the Congressmen Who Owe Them

Student Loans and the Congressmen Who Owe Them Does it feel like your lawmakers don’t understand or care about student loans and interest rates? At least some of them do. Annual financial disclosure reports for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives released in June 2012 pointed out three lawmakers who still owe more than...
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For Profit Colleges Encouraged Fraud

For Profit Colleges Encouraged Fraud On August 4, 2010, The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on For Profit Colleges entitled “FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES –Undercover Testing Finds Colleges Encouraged Fraud and Engaged in Deceptive and Questionable Marketing Practices.”The GAO conducted an investigation and had GAO investigators pose as prospective students and apply for...
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Tax Fraud…Behind Bars!

Tax Fraud…Behind Bars! Consider this: you committed a crime, weren’t wiley enough to avoid getting caught, and now you’re in jail. What’s the first thing on your mind? Well, send a bunch of fraudulent tax returns to the IRS in order to collect millions in refunds, of course! Investigators in Key West, Florida have found that inmates...
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Stapler Fraud – Stealth Fighter Jet Fraud

Stapler Fraud – Stealth Fighter Jet Fraud Sure, office supplies aren’t nearly as sexy or controversial as Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor Stealth fighter. Who hasn’t dreamed of being in the cockpit of a F-22 when our boss is trying to take away our stapler? Unfortunately office supply companies are not immune to the temptations of defrauding the government....
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Crankin’up the HEAT

Crankin’up the HEAT HEAT is the rather odd acronym for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team. It is the brainchild of Attorney General Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius, and despite the great stretches of the imagination it takes to make it work as an acronym (HCFPEAT doesn’t exactly roll...
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TARP Fraud Uncovered: Bank CEO’s Guilty Plea in NYC

TARP fraud uncovered: Bank CEO pleads guilty in New York City The  ironies of TARP — the Troubled Assets Relief Program—may take decades to be understood. In the same manner of most great American financial crises, from the days of railroad bribery and trust-busting to world war munitions graft… claims of rights and wrongs are...
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