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HSBC's clients linked to dictators, arms dealers and tax dodgers
Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators,...
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Potential 2016 candidates prime Iowa, New Hampshire with cash
In August, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Iowa Republican state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann drove for an hour together between political events in Davenport and Iowa City, jawing about property rights and eminent...
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Republican 'alternative' to Obamacare really no alternative at all
We got a glimpse last week of what would happen to our health care system if Republicans increase their control of Congress and win the White House in 2016.Gone would be the part of Obamacare that...
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Lawyer moved Halliburton subsidiary bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts
A network of secretive banks and offshore tax havens was used to funnel $182 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in exchange for $6 billion in engineering and construction work for an international...
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12 notable notes in the HSBC files and what they say about client-banker...
The exchanges between staff and clients of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) reveal damning evidence of tax evasion and wrongdoing by certain of HSBC’s clients. These conversations, which were never supposed...
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Feds may be considering new probe of HSBC
Federal prosecutors are reportedly considering opening a new criminal investigation into global banking giant HSBC after thousands of files released this week revealed that the company’s Swiss branch...
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Forum becomes campaign cash free-for-all
The nation’s top election regulator advertised today’s rare, daylong public hearing as an opportunity to address a recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed people to contribute money to an unlimited...
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Chemical Safety Board halts investigations amid alleged mismanagement
Despite coming under intense scrutiny in recent years, the federal agency charged with investigating the nation’s most serious chemical accidents remains dogged by allegations of severe mismanagement,...
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U.S. troops burned waste in hazardous open pits while safer incinerators sat...
Bobby Elesky, who worked as a civilian Defense Department contractor at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan from January 2004 until February 2005, recalls the smelly, smoky burn pit there being the size...
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U.S. court orders HSBC USA to provide details of customers with offshore law...
Got a few million bucks you want to protect from the tax man, a nosey spouse or a greedy business acquaintance? Sovereign Management & Legal Ltd. says it has the answers.Up until recently, it...
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Chemical Safety Board cuts investigations amid alleged mismanagement
Despite coming under intense scrutiny in recent years, the federal agency charged with investigating the nation’s most serious chemical accidents remains dogged by allegations of severe mismanagement,...
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Vote on Lynch delayed in wake of HSBC revelations
The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed a vote on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to become U.S. attorney general amid questions about how she handled the money laundering prosecution of British...
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Fraud case puts spotlight on Medicare Advantage plans
As the Medicare Advantage industry scrambles to stave off proposed government funding cuts, federal prosecutors in Florida are pursuing an unusual criminal fraud case that’s likely to raise new...
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How data-driven journalism revealed racial disparities in U.S. nursing homes
In 2009, while at The Chicago Reporter, I took a deep look at racial disparities in the quality of care in nursing homes in Chicago, Illinois and nationally. For a project that the Center for Public...
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Secrets got loose at nuclear weapons laboratory, an auditor says
An auditor at the Energy Department has concluded that one of the country’s principal nuclear weapons laboratories improperly disclosed sensitive national security information due to poor workplace...
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Governor's resignation highlights issues raised by Center probe
Amid a growing ethics scandal, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his resignation Friday, drawing a close to a tumultuous week. The burgeoning conflicts-of-interest scandal involving Kitzhaber’s...
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Behind the municipal broadband battle
What do you really know about the way the Internet works?How did it get to you?Who built the infrastructure behind it?Who makes decisions about its future?These are some of the questions Center for...
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More proof elections never end
A heavy smoker for much of his life, former Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., died last month at age 90 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.Among Ford’s many distinctions: He was the longest serving...
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Elimination of 'public option' threw consumers to the insurance wolves
When members of Congress caved to demands from the insurance industry and ditched their plan to establish a “public option” health plan, the lawmakers also ditched one of their favorite talking...
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ICIJ's offshore secrets series wins George Polk Award
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has won a prestigious Polk Award for its multi-year reporting project “Offshore Leaks” examining tax havens and new ways that wealthy...
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