B of A Charged With Unethical Practices (Again)
The states of Arizona and Nevada have charged Bank of America with deceiving people who thought that they would be getting a loan modification. The suit alleges that B of A told homeowners who were...
View ArticleNew Details in CityTime Corruption Case: Contractor Arrogance and Incompetence
It is often said that if government could just run like a business, taxpayers would save billions and the public sector would be more effective. If only that were so. In fact, corporations are just as...
View ArticleCrooked Lawyers Ruin it for the Rest
The New York Times reports that in California it is now virtually impossible to find legal help fighting a foreclosure. That is because the state recently passed laws making it illegal for attorneys to...
View ArticleElder Lawyers Game Medicaid -- Law or No Law
Here's an ad that runs almost every day in my local newspaper under the heading "Medicaid Law:" "Many people needlessly lose their homes and spend their life savings to become eligible for Medicaid...
View Article'Tis the Season to Get Cheated: Gift Cards Fleece Consumers
Most people think of gift cards as akin to cash. After all, they are paid for up front. But a recent study by Bankrate.com found that some gift cards come laden with unethical and deceptive fees. For...
View ArticleMoral of DIRECTV Settlement: Lying Pays
Attorney generals from 50 states piled onto a suit alleging that DIRECTV was deceiving its customers and hitting them with a variety of unethical charges. This month, the suit was settled and many of...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Puts the Fear Into Bank of America
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks and terror of pretty much anyone who has ever had an incriminating secret, recently said that he would release documents that would bring down the executives of a...
View ArticleWhat has Google overload done to us?
Recent news suggests that Bing may have been caught in the tangles of its own catch phrase: Danny Sullivan, head of the blog Search Engine Land, wrote Tuesday about a “sting operation” by Google that...
View ArticleInsider Trading Web Adds Three More
The SEC's fight against inside trading may be on its way to notching three more victories: One of the three portfolio managers against whom charges were unsealed is Samir Barai, who founded New...
View ArticleStudy: Good at Business, Good at White-Collar Crime
Are white-collar criminals born, not made? Maybe. A new study has found that white-collar criminals may have different brain characteristics than non-criminals. According to an article in The...
View ArticleVillanova Law School Fudged Data for Rankings
As if lawyers don't have a hard enough time living an ethical life, it turns out that law schools themselves can have questionable integrity. As reported recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer:...
View ArticleTennessee Athletics Hit with Slew of Charges
"Rocky Top Tennessee" might be facing some pretty steep times ahead: The NCAA says both Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl and former football coach Lane Kiffin committed recruiting violations and...
View ArticleNew York Keeps up the Heat on Abusive Debt Collectors
Debt collection is something of a wild west industry. The industry is filled with fringe operators who routinely break the law in trying to collect debts. This is a classic area where there are...
View ArticleI Lost My Moral Compass: Kenneth Starr
Sometimes, reading about these white collar crime cases, it is hard to believe that people who are smart and wealthy -- who already have everything -- could throw it away by cheating to get more. You...
View ArticleThe Wild West: Colorado Number One in Fraud
The west is still wild, at least according to statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission. Colorado has topped the list of states with the highest per capita complaints about fraud and other...
View ArticleEarthquake Deaths Tied to Corruption
Earthquake-prone Japan has famously tough building codes and those rules should keep the death toll down from the huge quake that just struck that country. But the mere existence of codes doesn't mean...
View ArticleThe National Cheating Club
The National Arts Club has long been an oasis in Manhattan for the upscale creative set. It is housed in a Gilded Age-era mansion just across the street from the Gramercy Park, the famous gated...
View ArticleDefending Corporate Bribery
Here is an ironic, and troubling, development: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has hired former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey -- the nation's top law enforcement official under Bush -- to help it...
View ArticleSilencing the Watchdog: The Attack on Elizabeth Warren
Last month, the House of Representative voted to eliminate Elizabeth Warren's salary. Warren, of course, is the consumer advocate tapped by President Obama to set up the Consumer Financial Protection...
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