Vile Archives

2010

May

• Crist portrait sold on eBay for $7,700

• AIG reports $1.5 billion first-quarter profit

• Mariah Carey and a Diamond Encrusted “Ring Pop” Re-Weds Nick Cannon

• Multiple Peacocks Die for Miley Cyrus’s $25,000 Corset

• MASSACHUSETTS BROKER, GREGG RENNIE, PLEADS GUILTY IN PONZI SCHEME

• Florida GOP hawks Charlie Crist painting on eBay

• Bush Admin Barred Officials From Briefing Congress On Impending Financial Crisis in Fall 2008

• Paris Hilton Drops $23,000 in Shopping Mega-Spree

April

• It pays to throw a Tea Party

• The Arrogance of Stolen Wealth

• Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab

• Et tu Buffet?

• Wall Street Casino

• Ed Young Scandal Continues To Escalate

• A Hamptons bargain at $35,000 per night

• Like U.S., British rich enjoyed record shattering wealth expansion in 2009

• Goldman Sachs set to pay $5 billion more in bonuses for first three months of 2010

• E-mails prove Goldman Sachs sought to profit from housing downturn

• FBI, IRS raid NY state senator Pedro Espada Jr.‘s Bronx clinic

• Morgan Stanley’s profit of $1.41 billion tops forecasts

• U.N.‘s Haiti Peacekeeping Budget Goes Mostly to Its Own Personnel

• John Paulson sold Southampton home to Rachael Ray

• Citigroup reports $4.4 billion profit for first quarter of 2010

• Goldman figure Paulson hosted Romney, Steele last week

• SEC accuses Goldman Sachs of defrauding investors

• Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries paid millions to stop flying

• 3 charged with defrauding 45 homeowners in mortgage scam

• Goldman Sachs: Has The SEC Finally Grown a Pair Under Mary Schapiro?

• SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud

• J.P. Morgan Chase reports $3.3 billion first-quarter profit

• CSU cuts 40,000 students ... Spends up to $100,000 plus expenses for Palin speech

• Judge Says Nacchio Must Return For Denver Hearing

• Minneapolis trader Trevor Cook admits to $190 million scam

• Tom Petters appeals conviction, wants public to pay for court costs

• Receivership ordered in alleged Ponzi scheme

• CNET founder, Halsey Minor, owes California $13 million

• Playgrounds of the Absurdly-Rich

• Slideshow: The Things Money Can Buy

• Sen. John Ensign may be indicted for “structuring”

• Does Status Trump Wealth?

• Some Claims Dismissed for Ex-Qwest Officials

• House, Senate C-Street members paid below-market rents

• “Luxury Is Not Dead”

• Ethics office says ex-Rep. Nathan Deal may have violated House rules

• Pay of Hedge Fund Managers Roared Back Last Year

• Western financial institutions may have bilked £1tn from African nations

March

• It’s all about the boats: Is wealth changing Connecticut politics?

• Republicans spent $1,946 at strip club

• 4 Albertans accused of $60M Ponzi scam

• Rush Limbaugh is a closet Francophile

• Big Money Talks - California’s Billion Dollar Club

• Daimler to Settle With U.S. on Bribes

• Michael Steele Establishes Conservative Street Cred

• The Perks of Being a Goldman Kid

• Anti-socialist Bachmann got $250K in federal farm subsidies

• Ponzi Schemer Lou Pearlman Boy Band Genius Greedily Ruins Legitimate Enterprise

• Virginia Thomas launches ‘tea party’ group

• Hank Morris News

• British law firm cleared way for Lehman cover-up

• Ex-official David Loglisci’s guilty plea advances N.Y. state pension probe

• Alan G. Hevesi

• Upper-Income Taxpayers Look for Ways to Sidestep Obama Tax-Hike Plan

• Russian tycoon loses $53 million deposit on French villa

• “Screw More” pastor Ed Young linked to luxury

February

• “Big Money” Gets Folk Singer Fired

• Shocker: Some Georgia lawmakers did not pay taxes!

• 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

• Michael Steele’s spending spree angers donors

• New York Times Silent On Major Carlos Slim Lawsuit

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

• The Story the New York Times Won’t Touch

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

• Prison for wealthy Indonesians puts Club Fed to shame