1 day ago by Jan Tucker

Your email: The recent scandals in Washington and the passage of legislation to ban congressional “insider” stock trading caused me to unearth an old memo that I’d sent to federal authorities some time ago, because it seemed quite plausible that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge might very well hav ...

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1 day ago by Elizabeth B. Letchworth

__________________________________________________________________ Congress falls all over itself to pass current law-again by Elizabeth B. Letchworth But It Was Already Illegal This past week in Congress was a bit weird, even for Congress these days. You see, the Senate was able to debate, amend an ...

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1 day ago by Stefan Passantino

by Stefan C. Passantino and Benjamin P. Keane Proponents of ethics reform and increased political transparency in Washington don’t often see reform proposals pass through Congress by overwhelming margins, and rarely does anyone bemoan an excess of “political intelligence” in Washington, but that’s e ...

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1 day ago by Martin Hershman

Opko Health Inc. (OPK, Free Analysis), a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company focused on molecular testing, recently saw its Chairman and CEO Phillip Frost M.D. purchase 11,167 shares of stock at between $5.17 and $5.19 per share on February 9, 2012. The purchase brings the executive’s total stake ...

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1 day ago by Jon Shazar

Doug Whitman surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York this morning, the 64th person charged in a series of government insider-trading probes. read more

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1 day ago by steve

A leading Republican Congressman, Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, is apparently being investigated for possibly violating existing insider trading rules, according to a report by Scott Higham and Dan Keating in today’s Washington Post. read more

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2 days ago by Congressional Aid

2012: Republican Representative Spencer Bachus declines to support H.R. 336>a, a bill to cap credit card interest rates. 2011: Rep. Spencer Bachus votes to knock away the requirement that federal contracts pay Americans workers at least the prevailing wage for their work, supporting pay cuts for fed ...

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2 days ago by tarpon

This is good news … At least as far as it goes … Ask Republican Bachus how it works. The House overwhelmingly passed a slimmed-down version of a bill to ban lawmakers from insider trading Thursday, setting up a battle with senators and the White House over what kind of contact citizens may have with ...

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2 days ago by T. Gorman

Government authorities announced a $26 billion settlement with five of the largest banks arising out of the market crisis and its impact on home owners. In announcing the deal, the Attorney General noted that the resolution would not impact other market crisis litigation including criminal and civil ...

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2 days ago by Louie

Redneck Ramblins Note to readers: SOPA did not shut down the blog. I got the annual sinus infection and got behind on everything. Something had to go, so the blog was suspended for a while, but we are back. Did you hear about the new LSU credit card? It has Les Miles and NO points. The wife of a Ret ...

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