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McCain adviser sued in business dispute
The Swampby Andrew Zajac Top McCain campaign adviser Charles Black has been accused of failing in his duties as a director of e-Smart Technologies Inc. by allegedly allowing its CEO to defraud the company, according to an investor's suit filed in......Tags: Nevada, New York, Prosecution, Colorado, Securities
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Obama's economic team has Clinton feel
The Swamp( Chicago Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak ) by Frank James We're all waiting for President-elect Obama's first post-election press conference this afternoon at 2:30 pm Eastern Time. Before that press conference, which will be held at the Hilton......Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Time Warner Inc., Commerce, Government
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Bob Knight adds game analysis to ESPN duties
WatchdogWhen I covered college basketball, Bob Knight was a profound pain in the neck. Now that I am a sports media writer, I kind of like him. After a promising debut in ESPN's studios last March, Knight will expand his......Tags: Sports, Primetime (tv program), NCAA Tournaments, Television Industry, National Basketball Association
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Mavericks find November unforgiving
The Swampby Frank James November is obviously not a good month for mavericks, political or otherwise. Today, it's not a political maverick but a Dallas Maverick, specifically, Mark Cuban, owner of the National Basketball Association franchise, who's having a bad.....Tags: Sports, Major League Baseball, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, National Basketball Association
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FAU win streak spurs Bowl Scenario Madness
FAU Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsCamped out at The Oxley, where bowl-scenario-mania has happened, except for the coaches and players who are focusing on the Blushing Puppies. (A late-breaking entry: Little Red Riding Hoods. I kind of like it, and it came from fellow scribe......Tags: Sports
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Pokes-Steelers almost beats Jets-Niners in NY area
WatchdogTo the surprise of no one, Sunday's game between the Cowboys and Steelers - the once-every-four-years meeting between two of the NFL's top ratings-grabbers - drew a season-high 17 percent of homes in 56 major markets on Fox in overnight......Tags: San Francisco 49ers, Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Consumer Electronics Industry, Football
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SEC missed Madoff warning signs
The Swampby Frank James Investors who apparently lost billions of dollars in Wall Street broker Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme weren't the only big losers. The Securities and Exchange Commission was staggered by the revelation, as it was once......Tags: John McCain, Politics, Accounting and Auditing, Stock Broking, Corporate Crime
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HBO documentary covers college football integration
WatchdogThe secondary item in my Tuesday column concerns HBO's new documentary on the desegregation of college football in the 1960s, which does a nice of chronicling the contributions of various pioneers. One of them is Wilbur Hackett Jr., whose......Tags: Sports, Football
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Obama names SEC chair, vows crackdown
The Swampby Christi Parsons and James Janega CHICAGO--Decrying a lack of "adult supervision" in American society, President-elect Barack Obama this morning vowed to try and clean up the worlds of politics and finance and called on others to take seriously their......Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Barack Obama, Parliament, Politics, Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009)
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Bernard Madoff, a disaster foreseen
The Swampby Frank James The more I learn about the Bernard Madoff and his alleged Ponzi scheme, the more it reminds me of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. That 1986 calamity, as you'll recall, was preventable. Engineers at the Thiokol rocket......Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents, Securities, Space Programs
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Madoff-SEC's very cozy tie?
The Swampby Frank James The Bernard Madoff affair in which many wealthy people were allegedly scammed in a Ponzi scheme that may have cost investors $50 billion just gets stranger by the day, doesn't it? Now it turns out a Securities......Tags: Christopher Cox, Stock Broking, Government, Corporate Crime, Crime, Law and Justice
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Wall Street: Where's Chuck?
Spin CycleToday we learn from the Associated Press, after poring through SEC filings, that 600 executives of banks and Wall Street investment houses receiving bailout money this year to stave off collapse collected $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and other......
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