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  • September 2008

    • 'Indict Olmert,' Israeli Cops Urge

      Guardian (UK)  |  9 hours, 48 minutes ago

      'Indict Olmert,' Israeli Cops Urge

      (Newser) - Israeli police are recommending that embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted for bribery, money laundering and fraud, reports the Guardian. The final decision on what action to take after the 18-month investigation rests with the nation's attorney general. Olmert has already indicated he will resign within days.   More »

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      Israel  • Ehud Olmert  • bribery  • money laundering  • Kadima  • Tzipi Livni  • police investigation  • Avigdor Lieberman  • Omri Sharon  • Likud Party  • Moshe Katsav

  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Wachovia Targeted in Drug Money Laundering Probe

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 26, 08 7:20 AM CDT

      Wachovia Targeted in Drug Money Laundering Probe

      (Newser) - Federal prosecutors have targeted Wachovia in an investigation into the use of money-exchange houses along the Mexican border to transfer money from US sales to Latin American drug lords, the Wall Street Journal reports. The bank invested heavily in the casas de cambio despite warnings that such firms were often used by drug cartels for money laundering. More »

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      banking  • Wachovia  • money laundering  • drug cartel  • currency exchange  • bank regulation

  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • November 2007

    • Giuliani Calls Juggling $579K ‘Appropriate’

      New York Post  |  Nov 30, 07 12:50 PM CST

      Giuliani Calls Juggling $579K ‘Appropriate’

      (Newser) - Rudy Giuliani has hit back against allegations of book-cooking, saying it was “perfectly appropriate” to bill $579,082 in security detail fees to obscure mayoral agencies, and the NYPD repaid the agencies in full. The cops were slow in paying their bills, he explained, and the peculiar invoicing was a matter of convienence, the New York Post reports. More »

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      election 2008  • Rudy Giuliani  • money laundering  • America's Mayor  • billing

  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007

    • It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

      Miami Herald  |  Aug 28, 07 12:33 PM CDT

      It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

      (Newser) - Former dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve ten more years of jail time. Noriega has done 18 years in a Miami prison, and will be released for good behavior next month. He faces money laundering charges in France, but had asked to return to Panama—despite possibly facing even more jail time there. More »

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      France  • jail  • money laundering  • extradition  • POW  • Panama  • Geneva Convention  • prisoner of war  • Manuel Noriega

    • Pentagon Spent $1M on 2 Washers

      Bloomberg  |  Aug 16, 07 2:34 PM CDT

      Pentagon Spent $1M on 2 Washers

      (Newser) - Twin sisters at a parts supplier scammed the Pentagon out of $20.5 million in fraudulent  shipping costs, including $998,798 they charged to ship two 19-cent washers and half a mil to ship three machine screws to Iraq. The Pentagon took six years to catch on to the sisters' tricks: Apparently bills marked "priority" were paid automatically. More »

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      Pentagon  • money laundering  • wire fraud

  • July 2007

    • Terror Groups Use Commodity Trades to Move Money

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 2, 07 10:36 AM CDT

      Terror Groups Use Commodity Trades to Move Money

      (Newser) - Commodity trading is the latest avenue for terrorists and narcotics traffickers to launder large amounts of money, the Wall Street Journal reports. Basic foodstuffs, like sugar, flour and oil, are legitimately bought on the market and transferred to trade-restricted Iran or Palestine in the guise of legal aid. There they're sold, and proceeds find their way to terror groups. More »

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      terrorism  • food  • trade  • sanctions  • money laundering  • narcotics

  • May 2007

    • Feds Nab Top Spammer, Predict Junk Mail Drop

      Associated Press  |  May 31, 07 7:48 AM CDT

      (Newser) - The feds arrested one of the world's worst spammers yesterday—a guy so prolific they claimed net-users worldwide would notice a drop in junkmail as a result of his detention. Robert Alan Soloway used infected "zombie" computers to send out millions of messages, and continued to do so even after Microsoft won a $7 million judgment against him in 2005, the AP reports. More »

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      Internet  • Microsoft  • fraud  • email  • identity theft  • spam  • money laundering  • Robert Alan Soloway

    • Russia Sues Bank of New York for $22 Billion

      Financial Times (UK)  |  May 18, 07 7:40 AM CDT

      Russia Sues Bank of New York for $22 Billion

      (Newser) - The Russian government hit the Bank of New York with as $22 Billion lawsuit in a Moscow court Wednesday—the latest in a wave of hostile moves some see as portending a new Cold War. With Russians irate over U.S. missile bases planned for Eastern Europe, East-West relations are their lowest  ebb since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Financial Times notes. More »

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      Russia  • lawsuit  • Cold War  • money laundering  • missile bases

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