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Search results for "David Evans" ...
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The Duke Rape Case
CBS News looks into the investigation of the Duke University Lacrosse team's rape case. Three players were indicted in the case, in which an African-American dancer accused the Duke lacrosse players of sexual assault at a team party. For six months, CBS "reviewed the voluminous case file case file" and interviewed the three players accused: Collin Finnerty, David Evans and Reade Seligmann, who are all caucasian. The story also examined the actions of District Attorney Mike Nifong, and the veracity of the rape accusation. The charges against the three players were dropped two months after the report aired.
Tags: Duke University Lacrosse; Duke rape case; Collin Finnerty; David Evans; Reade Seligmann; Mike Nifong
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Big Pharma's Shameful Secret
The story and five sidebars investigate the dangers of privately administered drug trials that are killing otherwise healthy people. Because companies stand to make billions on the next block-buster drug, they are taking more risks with their trials and the people who sign up for them. The story offers an in-depth look of the possibly dangerous practices of the largest test center in the U.S., SFCB in Miami, who pay poor citizens and immigrants to be part of their clinical trials.
Tags: prescription drugs; test centers; clinical trials; FDA; SFCB; Miami; Open Records Law; experimental medicine
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Corporate America's Secret Money Trail: "Dirty Money, Clean Banks" , "The $150 Billion Shell Game", "Homeland Security Pork Barrel"
"These three stories document different ways that the largest U.S. corporations break laws and don't get prosecuted, use secret Cayman Island dummy companies to avoid paying taxes, and place top executives on Presidential Advisory boards that award their companies billions of dollars in federal contracts."
Tags: corporate fraud; taxes; Coke; Intel; Cayman Islands; J.P. Morgan; Wells Fargo; banks; money laundering
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Dan Gordon, Merrill Lynch and the Missing $43 Million
Dan Gordon, a 24-year-old Merrill Lynch energy trader, embezzled $43 million from the world's largest securities firm, which ignored warnings of criminal conduct by Gordon and which didn't disclose the theft until after it was reporter by Bloomberg News, three years after Gordon's crimes. Four months after the first Bloomberg News story, Gordon pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
Tags: Williams School; Merrill Lynch & Co.; U.S. Justice Department; Dan Gordon; embezzlement; energy trade; offshore companies; offshore accounts; conspiracy; securities; Yale University; Boston University; money laundering; Ostrich Capital; Kings Holdings LLC; AIG Private Bank; Constellation Energy Group; Newport Pacific Financial Group SA; Allegheny Energy Inc.; Mellon Bank; K2 Energy Corporation; Falcon Energy Holdings; Daticon; fraud
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The Flimflam Man
This series of articles exposed massive theft by Dan Gordon from Merrill Lynch. Gordon embezzled $43 million dollars; these articles show how he almost got away with it.
Tags: embezzlement; money laundering; Merrill Lynch; employee theft; white collar crime
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"Operation Enduring Liberty"; "The Cops Are Watching You"; "The Big Chill"; "Vigilante Justice"; "Homeland Security X 50"; "Foreign? Suspicious!"; "D.C.'s Virtual Panopticon"
Series of articles in an issue of The Nation following various aspects of the "war on terror." Dreyfuss details the makeup of Maryland's Joint Terrorism Task Force and local police ties with the FBI field office. Cooper talks to Arabs in California who are seeing their organizations' numbers decline. Bach discusses citizens' groups that are encouraged to act as watchdogs on their neighbors, giving the example of a high school student with an expired visa who was turned in to authorities by his guidance counselor. Pell examines state laws and proposed laws creating new definitions of and punishments for "terrorism." Evans raises the issue of drivers' licenses and documentation of aliens. Parenti follows the installation of closed circuit television (CCTV) in Washington, D.C., and other cities. Several articles touch on the classification of protest groups in America as "terrorists."
Tags: homeland security; terrorism; police; immigrant; immigration; Ashcroft; civil liberties; Patriot Act; detainees; FBI; ACLU; Arab; Muslim; DOJ; INS; Justice Department; bioterrorism; bioterror; CCTV; surveillance
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Fly the Fiery Skies
After the Valujet crash, the Clinton administration, the FAA, and the chiefs of the country's largest airlines promised that the installation of fire detectors in many aircraft was a top priority for the industry. Six months later, not one new extinguisher or detector was installed. The problem this poses is particular to smaller planes more than larger but the danger is real. The Halon fire fighting agent present in most planes cannot work correctly in the cargo holds of smaller planes. If there are no detectors or extinguishers, then a fire caused by standard hair products could quickly consume a plane with no warning to the crew until it is too late.
Tags: FAA; fire; fire detectors; fire extinguishers; air crashes; Halon; valujet; hazardous materials
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Edison Schools: An Education in Financial Deception
A Bloomberg News investigation shows how Edison Schools Inc. -- "the largest private manager of public schools in the U.S. -- artificially inflated its annual revenue by 41 percent in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission." Other findings are that Edison booked revenue from the Sherman, Texas, school district, and that budget problems prevented the company from providing textbooks for schools in Pennsylvania.
Tags: finances; overspending; SEC; accounting standards; privatization of education; stocks and bonds; business
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2TheMart.com
In this series Evans follows the rise and fall of internet auction site 2TheMart.com and its creators from their initial success to the day when their stock began to plummet.
Tags: 2TheMart.com; internet; day trading; online trading; stock market
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Stain on the Markets
A collection of three stories that exams selective disclosure, a practice of some companies to give information that could affect their stock prices to a limited group of professional investors and analysts. The stories show how companies typically favor big institutions and leave smaller investors in the dark.
Tags: fraud