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Records cast doubt on money manager's claims

Claims by Bo Beckman, a Twin Cities investment manager, to be among the top money managers in the United States led to an investigation by Dan Browning of the Star […]
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Federal stimulus contracts favor large firms

A story by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.) shows that the contracting scheme the federal government is employing to award stimulus contracts favors large corporations over small- and […]
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Cities overcharged by ex-politician through bond loan program

A $3 billion municipal bond loan program run by an ex-politician in Tennessee was overcharging Nashville and two other cities by hiding fees within reported interest rates, The Tennessean's Brad […]
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Paper investigates Philly’s flawed tax board

Mark Fazlollah and Joseph Tanfani of the Philadelphia Inquirer examined the city’s flawed Board of Revision of Taxes. The board, among other things, allowed backdoor tax cuts that cost the […]
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Hospital pulls advertising, bans paper from campus

"Hackensack University Medical Center has pulled advertisements from North Jersey Media Group, publisher of The Record, and has banned the newspaper from hospital property following publication of a story about […]
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Juvenile center supervisor used staff doctor to get painkillers

A 10-month investigation by producer Lauren Sweeney and reporter Melissa Yeager at WINK-Fort Meyers helped change policy at Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice.  A worker at a juvenile justice center for […]
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Criminals as mortgage brokers

Cary Spivak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found that hundreds of loan brokers in Wisconsin have criminal records, including ex-drug dealers, armed robbers and a killer. In his latest installment […]
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BankTracker crunches numbers from FDIC reports

An analysis of bank financial statements by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University and msnbc.com, sheds new light on just how dangerous conditions have become in many banks across […]
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Home Wreckers: How Banks are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis

BusinessWeek's Brian Grow, Keith Epstein and Robert Berner detail efforts by the banking industry and its lobbyists in Washington to delay, dilute and obstruct attempts to rescue homeowners. The story […]
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Foreign workers hired as banks failed

"Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were […]
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