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...posing as someone with extra cash to commit, found enough evidence to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to shutter the firms in November. They allegedly had conned nearly $26 million from more than 1,200 people, largely by targeting church-affiliated African Americans. In 2003 he managed to shut down another scheme, a California operation that targeted retirement funds worth $813 million. "Barry has a lot of insight into the many ways scams work," notes Peter Norell, an FBI supervisor who helped arrange Minkow's stint at the FBI's Quantico training facility. "That helps him ask perpetrators...
...years, China's media have wooed readers with expos?s of corruption in officialdom, while websites have buzzed with debates on sensitive topics like police brutality and the need for free expression. But since Hu's speech, those critical of the regime have been forced into retreat. Last fall, police shut down "A Complete Mess," China's most lively forum for political debate on the Internet, without ever explaining why. Then discussions of the forum's demise were banned from other websites. Propaganda officials have ordered reporters at the Legal Daily and other newspapers not to write any "negative" articles about...
...just a generation ago. Indeed, the neighboring train station was bombed to smithereens by American warplanes in 1972. For years after the war, "decadent" rock and pop music was only played behind closed doors. And as recently as 10 years ago, the few bars to be found were shut down at midnight by ubiquitous police...
...Fried said that if the Solomon Amendment suit reaches the Supreme Court, “the case is not open or shut for either side...
After the iCommons Poll Tool was shut down last night, University Technology Security Officer Scott Bradner said that “there’s no condition under which [the ID number] should have been shared…It was not a design feature...