The administration searched staff e-mails to try to root out the source of leaks to the news media in a cheating scandal, and the staff members were not told until months later. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Quorn, the UK’s biggest vegetarian ready-meal brand, is among firms reporting sales growth in February Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
The Vatican admitted on Thursday that it had secretly bugged clergy within the Holy See as part of the investigation into the Vatileaks scandal, which resulted in the Pope’s butler being imprisoned for stealing confidential pontifical documents. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Associated British Foods accused of Zambia tax avoidance after sending massive profits abroad Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
More than half of the roughly 125 Harvard students investigated by the college’s disciplinary board in a high-profile cheating scandal last fall were ordered to temporarily withdraw from the school, Harvard College officials announced Friday. In an e-mail to the Harvard community, Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced that the investigation, which concluded in December, required about half of the students implicated in the case to leave the college for “a period of time.” Original post on bostonglobe.com Comments on reddit.com
More than half of the students implicated in a Harvard University cheating scandal that involved about 125 undergraduates were told to withdraw for as long as a year. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
The inside story of how bankers lied, cheated and colluded to rig Libor, the world’s most important interest rate. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
The independent study was meant to shed light on undiscovered cases after about 600 people filed claims against priests in 2010. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Dotcom comes with drama, but he helped expose political scandal in the country. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
How is it that our courts have for decades now allowed the use of bad science to put citizens in prison — or even to send them to their deaths? Why is it that junk science can so easily slip into the courtroom during a criminal trial? Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Swiss bank’s huge penalty for rigging global interest rates expands the scandal to include bribery and highlights the influence of the mysterious Trader A in Tokyo who colluded with other banks Original post on financialpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Glenn Greenwald: That the stars of America’s national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
BOSTON (AP) — One at a time, the prison inmates sat down at a wooden table, linked by videoconference to a Boston courtroom, where their attorneys and prosecutors explained the role a disgraced chemist played in their criminal cases. The fallout from a scandal at a state drug lab played out in court Monday, as Judge Christine McEvoy began hearing what is expected to be nearly 200 legal challenges in Suffolk Superior Court drug cases. The chemist, Annie Dookhan, 34, of Franklin, has been charged with obstruction of justice and accused of skirting protocols and faking tests results at a former Department of Public Health lab. The Boston lab was closed by state police in August after Dookhan told them she had faked test results, forged paperwork and sometimes mixed samples. During the morning session, McEvoy granted defense motions to place sentences on hold and set bail for about 10 inmates now serving time at the state prison in Norfolk. Anthony Benedetti, chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, which represents indigent defendants, said he objects to that description, saying many are low-level nonviolent offenders and others might be innocent. Original post on sfgate.com Comments on reddit.com
The Palm Beach Post report last night that a Florida Republican Party contractor turned in at least 106 “questionable” registration firms, with “similar signatures” and wrong addresses, doesn’t seem like a national news story. Original post on thenation.com Comments on reddit.com
The doctors prescribing the drugs don’t know they don’t do what they’re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they’re not telling. Ben Goldacre investigates Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Stout and Thomas: The financial services industry has become a Original post on usatoday.com Comments on reddit.com
LONDON (Reuters) – When businessman Colin Jones approached his local bank for a loan in 2007, he had little idea what an interest rate swap was, let alone a structured collar.Jones wanted 400,000 pounds Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
NCAA president Mark Emmert wielded a Big Stick in punishing Penn State, but the scandal at North Carolina hits the foundation of college sports and opens Pandora’s Box. Original post on sportingnews.com Comments on reddit.com
Big News on Libor Rate-Rigging Scandal. Includes blogs, news, and community conversations about Libor Rate-Rigging Scandal Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Four people are sentenced to death for their roles in Iran’s biggest fraud scandal, in which credit was illegally obtained from a number of banks. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Chief executive of RBS speaks out on rate-rigging scandal and technology meltdown Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
opinion, editorial Original post on madison.com Comments on reddit.com
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) The sanctions imposed today by the NCAA on Penn State are too weak to significantly hurt the football team’s value and are therefore also too weak to dissuade other schools with valuable football teams from being run with the interests of the football program paramount above all other considerations, [...] Original post on forbes.com Comments on reddit.com
A senior FSA banking regulator tells MPs that Barclays’ had a ‘culture of gaming’ that came from the top of the bank. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
With investigators zeroing in on over a dozen big banks in the Libor rate rigging scandal, the timing couldn’t be better for a structural overhaul of Europe’s banking sector. Not so fast, says the banking lobby. Original post on dw.de Comments on reddit.com
The whole point is to rig markets. Original post on businessinsider.com Comments on reddit.com
