Vile Archives

2010

February

• “Big Money” Gets Folk Singer Fired

• Panel finds Representative Rangel’s trips broke congressional gift rules

• Probe: Did big U.S. banks contribute to the financial crisis in Greece?

• Wall Street shifting political contributions to Republicans

• Judge approves Bank of America’s slap-on-the-wrist on behalf of the SEC

• D.C. Council Member Marion Barry benefited from city contract obtained for ex-girlfriend

• JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, reaps $16 million bonus

• RNC Chairman Michael Steele Argues that a Million a Year “Is Not a Lot of Money”

• Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein gets stock-based $9 million bonus

• BAE Systems pays $450 million to settle bribery scandal charges

• Bank of America slapped with civil fraud charges by SEC and state regulators

• A novel idea: Confiscate bank bonuses

• AIG to pay another $100 million in bonuses

• The Psychology of Power

January

• Andrew Sullivan Rails on the World Economic Forum

• Diddy’s Son Gets A $360,000 Car for His Sixteenth Birthday

• Supreme Court Rules for The United Corporations of America

• D.C Mayor Fenty takes care of his friends

2009

December

• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to get Wall Street-style Compensation Packages

• A Vile Christmas List

• 22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found

• A Bonus by Another Name: Goldman Execs Cheat a Corrupt System

• Senator Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14,000 raise

• Tareq Salahi’s watch is a fake, jeweler says

• Goldman Sachs bankers on course for $19 Billion in pay and bonuses for 2009

• Goldman Sachs Plans to donate $1 Billion to Deflect Criticism for 2008 Bonus Pool of $23 Billion

• Calisto Tanzi: Italy police seize secret stash of masterpieces

• Parmalat’s Tanzi’s EU100 Million Art Trove Seized

• White House Party Crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi bounced $24K check for liquor buy

• Baltimore’s Mayor, Sheila Dixon, Redefines “Holiday Spirit” And Steals From Children

November

• Gates Foundation Proves “Non-Profit” is a Misnomer

• America’s Bailout Barons

• South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford accused of breaking 37 ethics laws

• Former congressman William J. “Freezer Cash” Jefferson sentenced to 13 years

• Scott Rothstein Kept Stripper at Ritz-Carlton

• FBI says alleged scheme by lawyer Scott Rothstein could top $1 billion

• Federal agents raid Scott Rothstein’s law offices

• Man blames pelican for crashing $2 million Bugatti into lagoon

• Scott Rothstein accused of separate $57 million swindle

• $52,000 lunch bill is pocket change to Roman Abramovich

• Russia’s Roman Abramovich expands his empire

• Joseph L. Bruno, Ex-N.Y. Senate leader faces corruption trial

October

• House ethics investigators put the screws to more than 30 lawmakers

• 7 members of house subcommittee on defense under scrutiny for ethics violations

• Mayor Larry Langford of Birmingham convicted of taking bribes

• Church of Scientology convicted of fraud in France

• 7th Annual Russian Millionaire Fair Flops

• Jeffry Picower, friend of Madoff, found at the bottom of his pool

• Sean Healy’s purchases out-bling Bernie Madoff

• 83-year-old businessman, Richard Piccoli, gets 20 years for Ponzi scheme