Vile Archives

2010

July

• The million-dollar diamond-studded suit

• Millionaire mortgage defaults on the rise

• Chihuahua, Conchita, inherits Posner estate

June

• Dona Branca, the People’s Banker

• BP made political contributions in direct violation of its own policies

• U.S. Banks Laundering Cash For Mexican Drug Cartels

• Affluent youth rely on daddy to land prized internships

• White House aide failed to disclose $40K payout

• SEC freezes alleged $34M Ponzi scheme targeting federal employees

• Death Doesn’t Stop the SEC

• SEC charges the estate of the recently deceased Kenneth Wayne McLeod

• The Disgusting $1.5 Billion Mortgage Fraud Scheme Perpetuated By Lee Farkas

• Judge Who Lifted Moratorium Tied To Offshore Drilling Companies

• TV Pastor and Radio Host Caught in Federal Securities Frauds

• Are Overpaid Executives Meaner?

• Smyrna man suspected of $2 million bank fraud

• Former mortgage boss Lee Farkas accused of intent to defraud US Treasury

• GAY MORTGAGE CEO LEE FARKAS INDICTED IN BILLION-DOLLAR FRAUD SCHEME

• Prosecutors Bring Largest Ever Tarp Fraud Case

• Farkas Charged in TARP Fraud Case

• Milowe Brost, Gary Sorenson Gold Investment Fraud Stopped by Feds

• BP: “We care about the small people”

• 8 House members investigated over conflict with fundraisers and financial reform vote

• Lee Farkas, Ex-CEO of Bankrupt Mortgage Lender TBW, Indicted on TARP Fraud

• SEC Charges Former Chairman Lee Farkas With $1.5 Billion Securities Fraud

• $1.9B fraud scheme tied to downfall of Colonial Bank

• Lawmakers’ committee assignments and industry investments bely conflicts of interest

• Andrew Cuomo appalled by warped excuse of Hevesi crony Hank Morris

• Global Ranks of Millionaires Swelled in 2009

• U.S. accuses Canadians of $300M scheme

• SEC Sues Six Individuals and Four Companies in $300 Million Ponzi Gold Mining Operation

• Florida Ponzi mastermind Scott Rothstein gets 50-year sentence

• Banks Pay Royalties To Colleges For Students Who Rack Up Credit Card Debt

• Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Headed to Halfway House Soon

• Luxury condo developer gets federal earmark to build public walkway

• SEC settles fraud action against former Cendant Corporation Vice Chairman E. Kirk Shelton

• Diebold To Pay $25 Million Civil Penalty Over Accounting Fraud

• “Overspending disease” plagues the wealthy

May

• Disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Goes To Jail Again

• Stockbroker turned politician, Rep. James Moran illustrates Congressional conflict of interest

• Flavio Briatore’s Force Blue Impounded by Italian Police

• Wall Street CEOs are still living large

• Surprise! No criminal charges for executives from AIG Financial Products division

• I-Team: Lowe Gallery Lawsuit

• Taylor Bean Says Farkas Withdrew $50 Million for ‘Personal Benefit’

• Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s $600,000 taxpayer paid rental home

• Cobb County Chamber of Commerce CEO pushes pet Chamber projects at expense of community

• How did currency trader John Rusnak hide $691 million in losses before being caught for bank fraud?

• Forbes 2010 List of America’s Most Expensive Homes

• The Global Oil Scam

• 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