In the past few months, the New York Times has run a series of stories revealing the business practices of JP Morgan in China, where the bank hired the children of the country's elite to get business from the Chinese Government. How far did JP Morgan go in pursuing these deals? Federal authorities have obtained documents that show the bank tracking the hirings to potential business deals.
The New York Times is shining (a lot of) light on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s involvement in the handling several dozen indictments—all of which were later mysteriously dismissed by the state’s attorney general Paula Dow—against Deborah Trout, the former Sheriff of Hunterdon County in west-central New Jersey and prominent Christie supporter.
The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been jailed for five years for supposedly embezzling from a timber company. Navalny has denied these allegations and claims that the trial and jailing were politically motivated. His supporters and foreign dignitaries also contend these are trumped-up charges.
Last week, Stéphane Gendron, the Québécois mayor of the 2,500-person town of Huntingdon, openly bragged about killing cats on his radio show. What sort of public official does that? A Canadian mayor, of course, a political genus that's proven to be the most corrupt, foolish, and unrepentant beast of them all.
East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser is currently the subject of a discrimination suit that stems from a long-term extramarital affair he was having with his research assistant. But things weren't always so bleak for the high-minded Bowser. During the affair, he would write the assistant, Corletta Hicks, romantic poetry that wonderfully mixes the lofty and mundane.
Eric Stevenson, an Assemblyman in the Bronx, was charged with embezzling nearly $20,000 in bribes associated with the launch of an adult day care center.
This receipt, with its grand total of £44,660 — about $70,000 — was posted on Reddit yesterday with the headline "My friend's a waiter and this is a receipt for an official lunch for 15 Olympic Bosses. Now we see where all the money's going..." We found the restaurant where the supposed lunch took place.
Your teenage daughter—how much do you really know about her? You know that she likes church, and playing with dolls, and going to the ice cream shoppe. But did you know that she wants to be tied up and sexually dominated by a dark brooding stranger? Well, she does. Sorry.
Suspect payments totaling $24 million have tainted Walmart's operations in Mexico. In a statement released by the company, Walmart acknowledged an investigation related to compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This follows a damning New York Times article, which alleges a cover-up of widespread bribery.
The worm turns: As we've reported in the past, the Nassau County Police Department's internal affairs division did a special favor for Bill O'Reilly a couple years back by investigating the detective who was dating his wife. The investigation was launched in part because O'Reilly was considering a sizable donation to the NCPD's private foundation. Yesterday, the Nassau County District Attorney announced the indictments of three NCPD officials for...doing special favors for a donor to the NCPD's private foundation.
The Nassau County Police Department has acknowledged in a court filing that Bill O'Reilly played a role in an internal affairs investigation into an NCPD detective, confirming a key element of Gawker's exclusive story last August detailing how the Fox News blowhard tried to have the cop who was dating his wife investigated by his own police department.
One basic characteristic of journalism is this: its content is not bought and paid for and directed by an advertiser. It might be vapid. It might be poorly written. It might be damn near worthless. But it's not an advertisement.
