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Billionaire environmentalist’s hedge fund named as defendant in investor lawsuit Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 4/23/2014 The hedge fund founded and until recently run by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer was deeply involved in an alleged Ponzi scheme that siphoned tens of millions of dollars from foreign investors, an analysis of public records shows. Steyer, […] April 23rd, 2014 | Tags: campaign contributions, Farallon Capital Management, fraud, Keystone XL pipeline project, Koch brothers, Michael Vogelbacher, Next Generation Climate Action, Tom Steyer | Category: Congress, corruption, Elections, Germany, SEC, Texas | Comments are closed
Editorial Investors.com 4/17/2014 Regulation: In a victory for common sense, a federal judge has voided a race-based mandate of the Dodd-Frank Act that would have cost manufacturers and retailers billions in compliance expenses. Marking the first time a court has ruled that a provision of Dodd-Frank violates the Constitution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for […] April 17th, 2014 | Tags: "conflict minerals", Democratic Republic of Congo, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, electronic media devices, Rep. Maxine Waters, U.S. Court of Appeals for DC | Category: 1st Amendment, Africa, Banking and finance, Barack Obama, SEC, technology | Comments are closed
DOE suspends stimulus payments after company’s SEC filings Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 8/12/2013 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended stimulus payments to a major green energy company after the company said it is having trouble finding financing and may have to declare bankruptcy. ECOtality admitted that possibility in a filing with […] August 12th, 2013 | Tags: "green subsidies", bankruptcy, Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, ECOtality, Fair Labor Standards Act, green energy, insider trading | Category: corruption, Crime, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, federal funding, SEC | Comments are closed
Michael Patrick Leahy Breitbart.com Big Government 3 Aug 2013 An April 2013 email from a career Department of Homeland Security official released on Friday by the office of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) stated that the Department of Homeland Security “absolutely gave special treatment” to green card visa applications filed by foreign national EB-5 investors in […] August 3rd, 2013 | Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, Anthony Rodham, Bill Clinton, cronyism, EB-5 visa, green cards, GreenTech Automotive, Gulf Coast Funds Management, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Terry McAuliffe | Category: Barack Obama, corruption, Department of Homeland Security, SEC, Virginia | Comments are closed
Sarah N. Lynch Reuters 6/5/2013 A portion of the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry would be required to fundamentally change how it prices its shares under proposals issued by U.S. regulators on Wednesday to reduce the risk of abrupt withdrawals. But the Securities and Exchange Commission plan was not as strict as some market […] June 10th, 2013 | Tags: Ben Bernanke, Financial Stability Oversight Council, Jacob Lew, Mary Schapiro, Money market funds | Category: Banking and finance, federal regulations, SEC | Comments are closed
Ariel Cohen The Daily Caller 6/10/2013 At least 436 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services received advance word of an upcoming Medicare decision, and now federal investigators are looking into whether they tipped off Wall Street investors. A review of emails by Republican Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa found that hundreds […] June 10th, 2013 | Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Humana, insider trading, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Wall Street | Category: Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, SEC, Taxes | Comments are closed
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