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AUSTIN, Texas — Former University of Texas men’s tennis coach Michael Center was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for accepting $100,000 in 2015 to help the son of a Silicon Valley venture capitalist get into the school by falsely designating him as a skilled athlete worthy of a scholarship... 
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Wells Fargo has agreed to pay US regulators $3 billion to settle three investigations into the bank’s damaging fake accounts scandal, the Department of Justice said on Friday.The fine settles criminal and civil liability in the case in which the nation’s fourth largest bank between 2002 and 2016 ...
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Romania is set to soften a controversial ‘greed tax’ on banks next week, shortly before the first payment would kick in, according to the country’s finance minister.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by Republican former congressman Aaron Schock, who resigned in 2015 amid questions about spending on his lavish “Downton Abbey”-inspired Washington office, to escape charges accusing him of defrauding the government while a member of the House of Representatives.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
During his brief time as a member of Congress, notorious spendthrift Aaron Schock got a little too greedy for his own good. As a result of his profligacy, he eventually became the disgraced poster child for all that is wrong with the GOP leadership.
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow crushed the president for creating a reality for the world to see, while behind the scenes it’s nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The CNN panel discussion addressed the unbelievable fundraising President Donald Trump has done in his first to years in office.
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The move comes after the mass closure of its Sam's Clubs stores.
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Lawmakers are asking a top federal regulator to crack down on several banks connected to a mid-2000s Ponzi scheme, arguing the government hasn’t done enough to get victims compensation.The lawmakers called on the Office of the Comptroller of the...
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“Trump says he represents the little guy, but the little guy is going to have to pay his taxes for him here in Ossining,” said Dana Levenberg, the Ossining town supervisor.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
If voters take a good, hard look at Donald Trump, they'll find a political wannabe who's no different than the other corporate carpetbaggers in the GOP leadership who were after the presidency. The only problem for them is that Trump's penchant for unbridled greed makes him better at 'gaming the system' than they are.
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Banks set up accounts in Jersey and Cayman to avoid tax and disburse bonuses.
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The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in U.S.
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If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as the earnings of the top one percent of Americans the federal wage floor would be more than triple the current hourly minimum of $7.25.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
This chart confirms what angry Americans have suspected all along: The backstabbers of corporate personhood are cheating working class Americans out of a living wage, and they've been doing it for a very long time.
Where are the cost-of-living raises we should have received? We never got them. Where did all that money go?
The dirty, rotten truth:
The money that could have made families stronger and more stable went into the pockets of the greedy executives on Wall Street, the shameless cheats of the corporate world, and the craven lobbyists who comprise the corporate hacks serving the backstabbers who pay the inside traders and freeloaders in Congress to keep us miserable.
However, the appearance of Pope Francis changes everything. When the Pope attacks greed, he's going after Behemoth. When he does, I back him without hesitation. He knows what he's doing.
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Collins was the deciding vote in 2010 against the DISCLOSE Act, which would have required transparency for political ads.
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The oil and gas industry has had a far worse impact on the climate than previously believed, according to a study indicating that human emissions of fossil methane have been underestimated by up to 40%.
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“This indicates that the fossil fuel sector has a much more polluting impact beyond being responsible for the overwhelming majority of carbon dioxide emissions. This is worrying and overall bad news,” said Dr Joeri Rogelj, a climate change lecturer at the Grantham Institute.
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A newspaper reports that some Mississippi politicians can legally take some of their campaign cash for personal use.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
Nothing puts the glide in a politician's stride like a little campaign cash.
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Though it's been 3 years since Carly Fiorina was the shortest-lived VP candidate in history, a supportive PAC is still spending money on food and Uber.
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“The cry of the poor daily becomes stronger, but heard less, drowned out by the din of the rich few, who grow ever fewer and more rich,” he said, the Vatican reported.
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The GOP lackeys are eager to do the bidding of whichever oligarch will give them the most money
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Performant Financial Corp. was one of two firms selected Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education to help the agency collect overdue student loans. The deal with could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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$9.25 monthly subsidy for mobile service would be eliminated by Republican bill.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
The shameless skinflints, cheapskates and misers in the GOP leadership are ready to steal from poor people again.
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Premier Christy Clark promised to rein in the contract-flipping practices earlier this spring.
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New report urges a coordinated international response to the widespread practice of tax avoidance
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A groundbreaking report reveals that Walmart has built a vast, undisclosed network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S.
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Fracking isn't paying off as was promised in Pennsylvania, but it can make people sick in ways no one ever dreamed possible.