The Washington Post reports that some lobbyists remain directly involved in the transition team, while others serve as informal consultants.
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Oil executive ordered to hand back £600,000 in crime profits. Jacqueline McPhie embezzled more than £1.3m from Altus Intervention in Aberdeen.
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While progress has been made to combat human trafficking, Pope Francis said Monday, “much more needs to be done on the level of raising public awareness and effecting a better coordination of efforts by governments, the judiciary system, law enforcement...
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Only one criminal prosecution brought in five years and 70 cases pursued through civil courts, report suggests...
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The for-profit prison industry is in trouble. Bernie Sanders came out
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Donald Trump's rise to Republican presidential nominee has made TV broadcasters rich — and democracy poor.
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Now Trump & Co are doing something at the very least suggests he couldn’t care less for the GOP as a party: he’s halting his fundraising operation that was raising big bucks for the Republican Party...
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Few could have imagined the extravagant personal enrichment that federal prosecutors exposed as Two Elk’s Michael J. Ruffatto pleaded guilty to felony fraud.
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Labour MP Iain Wright said the collapse of the store chain was “one of the biggest corporate scandals of modern times”
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Massachusetts is the latest state to penalize Wells Fargo over its accounts scandal by pulling the San Francisco-based bank from a list of approved bond underwriters.
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Pollsters have been asking Americans whether “it is every American’s civic duty to pay their fair share of taxes.” Every year, about nine in 10 Americans agree with that sentiment.
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Only insiders could decode 2008’s fallout, but the bank’s latest offense is a clear example of what Americans face – and one regulators will be forced to address
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U.S. job and wage declines, rising living costs, and a sense of cultural displacement by a marginalized White working class combined to strip away public confidence in both the Republican and Democratic establishments. That handed the presidency to Donald Trump, who ran as an outsider and promised to bring back jobs and reemploy American workers.
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A former oil executive has been ordered to pay nearly £600,000 to the firm she embezzled out of more than £1.3million.
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A Chili’s restaurant in Dallas is apologizing after a veteran says he was humiliated while dining there on Veterans Day.
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The biggest problems that our veterans face at home begin with the stereotypes of men and women in the military who serve our country with honor, and end with the ugly ingratitude, discrimination and bias perpetuated by low-minded individuals of ill-will who are loyal to nothing and serve no one but themselves.
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The courageous stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline, led by indigenous nations and especially the Dakota and Lakota people of the Standing Rock Sioux, has sprouted a divestment campaign targeting the pipeline’s major creditors.
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We've been chronicling the tea party ruination of Brownback's Kansas for more than two years, since soon after he enacted a slew of dramatic tax cuts in the conviction that they would unleash stupendous economic growth.
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In a report issued Saturday afternoon, The Washington Post is reporting one recipient receiving over a quarter of million dollars in charity funds — Trump’s Plaza Hotel for the restoration of a fountain out front.
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Since the 2008 financial crisis, one obscure federal agency has succeeded in doing what many thought was impossible: sending bankers to prison.
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Use of unjustified tax loopholes by individuals and tax havens by multinational corporations has been tolerated for too long.
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The FBI has placed a renewed emphasis on investigations targeting the middlemen who facilitate the movement of billions of dollars in illicit funds around the globe each year.
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We now know the results of rampant greed among the politicians in those states that are cutting education budgets in their K-12 school systems.
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San Francisco, the birthplace of Wells Fargo, may be looking to sever all ties with the bank following the nationwide fraud scandal.
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Donald Trump’s taxes still have many people scratching their heads: How did he incur such massive losses? What happened in other tax years? Is what he did legal? And how is this even possible?
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