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  • Confessed Fraudster Testifies Against Petters 10 Nov 2009 00:50 GMT
    ... Monday was another interesting day of testimony in the trial of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters. A man took the ... the Petters Group they believed there was fraud at the company. Petters is allegedly heard ...

  • Mastermind or bumbler? Lawyers paint differing pictures of Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager 10 Nov 2009 05:13 GMT
    ... or bumbler? Lawyers paint differing pictures of Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — ... closing arguments of his nearly monthlong financial fraud trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. said ...

  • The Media Monopoly 10 Nov 2009 09:15 GMT
    ... “The media is too concentrated, too few people ... our media runs really falling into a corrupt, biased monopoly? Taking into consideration the government’s ... January 8, 2002 train derailment in Minot, North Dakota. The train was carrying 200,000 gallons of ...

  • National report gives Oregon mediocre grades for innovation in schools 10 Nov 2009 16:52 GMT
    ... Correction: the Center for American Progress worked with ... report, it's downright laughable that Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota, and Hawaii are praised for having the ... a school funding state (they're also wildly corrupt, particularly their "tuition tax credit" scheme that ...

  • Where Will They Get the Troops? 10 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... On August 16th, determined to put an end to ... United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the military's maximum security correctional facility—and then was ... he requested compassionate reassignment to Fort Leavenworth, Missouri, about two hours away from her. His ...

  • Different views of slaughterhouse manager offered 10 Nov 2009 05:10 GMT
    ... attorneys for the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse offered starkly different portraits of the ... closing arguments of his nearly monthlong financial fraud trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. said ...

  • Prosecutor makes closing arguments in Rubashkin case 10 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
    ... Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin committed massive financial fraud then attempted to conceal his crimes. Prosecutors said ... as chief financial decisionmaker at the Northeast Iowa kosher meatpacking plant, played a key role in ...

  • Third trial location discussed 10 Nov 2009 07:31 GMT
    ... A third trial of former Westar executives Douglas Lake, ... Wittig could be conducted in Topeka, not Kansas City, Kan., the venue of the two ... retried and convicted in 2005 of wire fraud, money laundering, circumvention of Westar's internal financial ...

  • Prosecutors say Rubashkin masterminded scheme 10 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Prosecutors say the former manager of an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant masterminded a fraud scheme and harbored immigrants at the plant. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. gave the ...

  • Decreasing Union Transparency: A Step Backward for Workers 10 Nov 2009 15:37 GMT
    ... Decreasing Union Transparency: A Step Backward for Workers ... added transparency has revealed that mismanagement and corruption have squandered millions in union dues, and ... 880, which is active in Illinois and Minnesota, donated $60,118 to ACORN for "membership services." In ...

  • Rubashkin case in jury's hands 10 Nov 2009 00:50 GMT
    ... today with clashing portraits of the eastern Iowa meat plant executive. Prosecutors painted Rubashkin as the ... Rubashkin as the ringleader of an enormous fraud and immigrant-harboring scheme that festered at the plant ...

  • Different views of slaughterhouse manager offered 10 Nov 2009 05:12 GMT
    ... Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. said Sholom Rubashkin, the former manager of Iowa kosher meatpacking plant Agriprocessors, masterminded a fraud scheme and harbored immigrants at the plant. But Rubashkin's defense attorney, Guy Cook, told jurors ...

  • Hospital accuses lawyer of poisoning jury pool - UPDATED 10 Nov 2009 00:32 GMT
    ... Hospital accuses lawyer of poisoning jury pool - ... feel important and send them back to Kansas. At the very least, Memorial Hermann needs to lose ... even being debated is evidence of a corrupt medical system. These medical executives and their ...

  • Petters associate explains how alleged scam worked 10 Nov 2009 03:11 GMT
    ... ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A key figure in the case of a Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi ... what authorities say was a $3.65 billion fraud by Petters, operated out of Minnetonka-based Petters ...

  • Petters associate explains how alleged scam worked 10 Nov 2009 03:35 GMT
    ... Petters associate explains how alleged scam worked A ... key figure in the case of a Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi ... what authorities say was a $3.65 billion fraud by Petters, operated out of Minnetonka-based Petters ...


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