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<item><title><![CDATA[ Peru Economy Grows, But Problems Abound ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111502289.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111502289.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LIMA, Peru, Nov. 15 -- These should be good times for president Alan García. ]]></description><dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grows,]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abound]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Garcia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luis Giampetri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jo-Marie Burt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shining Path Guerilla Movement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Fujimori]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lima]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lucien Chauvin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ollanta Humala]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tacna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yehude Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Truth and Reconciliation Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Don't Forget American Automakers' History of Goodwill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111401262.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111401262.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- It is easy to feel disassociated from Detroit in this city of imported products, services, celebrities and mannerisms.  ]]></description><dc:creator>Warren Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Don't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forget]]></category><category><![CDATA[American]]></category><category><![CDATA[Automakers']]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goodwill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Auto Workers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chrysler Holding LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Prius]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-PurchasePro Chief Sentenced for Stock Fraud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403390.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403390.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven convictions. ]]></description><dc:creator>Matthew Barakat</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ex-PurchasePro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sentenced]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles E. Johnson Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[AOL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lexington (Kentucky)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Steer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liam O'Grady]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Wynn]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Bollywood Investor Admits $33 Million Fraud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111302145.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111302145.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He was an icon in the local Indian community, a flashy movie producer who invested millions in Bollywood films and brought Indian musical acts to the Washington area.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632142829" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632142829" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Admits]]></category><category><![CDATA[$33]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vijay K. Taneja]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert P. Trout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anuj Sud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claude M. Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Lamb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[EMC Mortgage Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Financial Mortgage Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[First Tennessee Bank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin Bank Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hilton Hotels Corporation]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Top UBS Executive Indicted In Florida ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111201453.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111201453.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A senior Swiss banker has been indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by helping about 20,000 U.S. clients hide $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service. ]]></description><dc:creator>David S. Hilzenrath</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[UBS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Executive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indicted]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raoul Weil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aaron Marcu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alicia Valle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Lauderdale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Willi]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Alexander Acosta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paine Webber Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Given A Look at Swiss Bank Accounts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902394.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902394.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. government has chipped new holes in the secrecy of Swiss bank accounts, obtaining the names of American clients of the banking giant UBS as part of an investigation into the use of foreign banks to evade taxes. ]]></description><dc:creator>David S. Hilzenrath</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Given]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Look]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accounts]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bradley Birkenfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liechtenstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Igor M. Olenicoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[LGT Bank]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David E. Meier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Subcommittee on Investigations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ IRS, Justice Target Undisclosed Assets In Swiss Accounts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103727.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103727.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the Beverly Hills office of criminal defense lawyer Edward M. Robbins Jr., anxious new clients are showing up with an unexpected problem. ]]></description><dc:creator>David S. Hilzenrath</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[IRS,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Target]]></category><category><![CDATA[Undisclosed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assets]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accounts]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Robbins Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Hills (California)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bradley Birkenfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Igor M. Olenicoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Nason]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryan C. Skarlatos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Lobel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Subcommittee on Investigations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swiss Bankers Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swiss Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Former CEO of Iowa Kosher Meatpacking Plant Is Arrested ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004617.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004617.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The former chief executive of the Iowa kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of a large immigration raid in May was arrested yesterday on federal conspiracy charges involving harboring illegal immigrants for financial gain and aiding and abetting document fraud and aggravated identity theft.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632143184" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632143184" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kari Lydersen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kosher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meatpacking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrested]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aaron Rubashkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Postville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agriprocessors Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luis Gutierrez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Teig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Frotman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upton Sinclair]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Stevens Found Guilty on 7 Counts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102700289.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102700289.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, one of Congress's most powerful Republicans, was convicted yesterday of lying on financial disclosure forms to conceal his receipt of gifts and expensive renovations to his house, just eight days before he faces voters in a tight reelection contest. ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Found]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[7]]></category><category><![CDATA[Counts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet G. Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Begich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew W. Friedrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orrin Hatch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brookstone Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Historical Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Background Checks Called Inadequate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/26/AR2008102602570.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/26/AR2008102602570.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The District's office of the chief financial officer, which was shaken by a massive scandal in its tax and revenue branch, has failed to adequately check the backgrounds of employees in another branch, the city's auditor concludes in a new report. ]]></description><dc:creator>Elissa Silverman and Martin Weil</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Background]]></category><category><![CDATA[Checks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Called]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inadequate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah K. Nichols]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natwar M. Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[BDO Seidman LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Finance and Treasury]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Tax and Revenue]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Examiner]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ High-Flying Businessman Gets 9 Years for Frauds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102403481.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102403481.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Alan Fabian wanted more, more than the affections of his family, more than the admiration of his friends. ]]></description><dc:creator>Henri E. Cauvin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High-Flying]]></category><category><![CDATA[Businessman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[9]]></category><category><![CDATA[Years]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frauds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Fabian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cairo (Egypt)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine C. Blake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cockeysville]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Wyda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael S. Steele]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean P. Vitrano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wachovia Corporation]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Court Case in Miami Casts Light on Corruption in Venezuela ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102303364.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102303364.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Miami trial of a Venezuelan entrepreneur who grew rich doing business with President Hugo Chávez's populist administration has exposed how some top government officials have profited from a corrosive web of corruption in the oil-rich country.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632143586" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632143586" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Casts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guido Alejandro Antonini]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos Kauffmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin Duran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moises Maionica]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tobias Nobrega]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernardo Alvarez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Shohat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Rangel Silva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Rijock]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tal Cual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teodoro Petkoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Byrnes]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Army National Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Senator's Image as Reformer Born in Crisis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203728.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203728.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Facing the biggest crisis of his political career in late 1989, John McCain telephoned Jay Smith, an old friend and strategist, and asked him to come to a damage-control session in McCain's Washington office. ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael Leahy</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Senator's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Image]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reformer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Born]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crisis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles H. Keating Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grant Woods]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Hull]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Falwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Glenn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Mudd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Cranston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Goldwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis DeConcini]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Rhodes]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Federal Home Loan Banks]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald W. Riegle Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin J. Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fife Symington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victoria Clarke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Savings and Loan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nightline]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Brinkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanoi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hensley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[R.G. Hunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trent Lott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona Historical Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberty University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix Sheraton Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Arizona Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Gandhi Moving to Oust 14 Who Received Checks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102100951.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102100951.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi is seeking the resignations of 14 tax office workers who allegedly accepted checks from Harriette Walters, the mastermind of the $48 million embezzlement scheme within that agency, sources said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>David Nakamura and Nikita Stewart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moving]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oust]]></category><category><![CDATA[14]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Received]]></category><category><![CDATA[Checks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriette Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Channing Phillips]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Umansky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Gustus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter J. Nickles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayrece Turnbull]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quentin Wilber]]></category><category><![CDATA[SunTrust Banks Inc.]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Fate of Sen. Stevens In the Jury's Hands ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102101624.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102101624.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal jury today will begin deliberating two conflicting views of Sen. Ted Stevens, the powerful Alaska Republican charged with lying on financial disclosure forms to hide more than $250,000 in gifts and renovations to the Alaska house he affectionately calls his "chalet." ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fate]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sen.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jury's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Bottini]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendan Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brookstone Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ U.N. Cites $20 Million in Fraud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/20/AR2008102003277.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/20/AR2008102003277.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 -- A U.N. task force has uncovered five new cases of corruption, fraud and mismanagement involving $20 million in contracts throughout the international body, according to the unit's annual report to the U.N. General Assembly and sources familiar with the findings.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632145586" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632145586" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.N.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cites]]></category><category><![CDATA[$20]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geneva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Appleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angola]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations Board of Auditors]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Sen. Stevens Takes Stand, Denies Trying to Hide Gifts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101600319.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101600319.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska took the witness stand in his own defense yesterday and immediately denied charges that he lied on financial disclosure forms to conceal gifts and extensive home renovations he received from a business executive. ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sen.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stand,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trying]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gifts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Persons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendan Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Marsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ The Culprit Could Be Dead, But Local Tax Case Lives On ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201725.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201725.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By the time FirstPay Inc. shuttered its doors and declared bankruptcy in 2003, the Silver Spring company was managing payroll operations for about 1,500 businesses and organizations. What few, if any, knew was that owner Mark Rothman allegedly skimmed about $11 million of the taxes FirstPay was... ]]></description><dc:creator>Jordan Weissmann</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Culprit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead,]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lives]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Rothman]]></category><category><![CDATA[FirstPay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Orenstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nina Olson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Messitte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Yin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bel Air]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Friedland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christ Church Children's Center of Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Petroleum Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robinson Dermatology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelley Engel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temple]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Prosecutors Expected To Spare Wall St. Firms ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203631.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203631.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Justice Department officials yesterday vowed to unravel the complex financial deals that helped prompt a market crisis in an effort that will generally seek criminal charges against individual brokers and bankers, rather than companies themselves, according to interviews with lawyers involved in the... ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Prosecutors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expected]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall]]></category><category><![CDATA[St.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Firms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark R. Filip]]></category><category><![CDATA[American International Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gil M. Soffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Coffee Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Hochberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Nardoza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benton Campbell]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Bar Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Andersen LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Countrywide Financial Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Credit Suisse Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[IndyMac Bancorp Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[JP Morgan Chase & Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges Against Stevens ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100201492.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100201492.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge refused yesterday to dismiss charges against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R), ruling that Stevens's corruption trial can proceed despite the prosecution's belated disclosure of information that could aid his defense.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632146150" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632146150" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Carol D. Leonnig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Judge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Refuses]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dismiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet G. Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Cary]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ China's Tainted-Milk Crisis Grows Despite Official Claims ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702797.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702797.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING -- Like thousands of other parents, Gu Yinghua took his child to the kidney unit of a local children's hospital for free testing as China's tainted-milk scandal continued to widen. ]]></description><dc:creator>Maureen Fan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[China's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tainted-Milk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crisis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Despite]]></category><category><![CDATA[Official]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claims]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jorgen Schlundt]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanlu Group Co. Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chen Yanhui]]></category><category><![CDATA[Du Qunjun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guangzhou]]></category><category><![CDATA[Li Changjiang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shanghai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zhang Jie]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanlu Dairy Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanyuan Dairy Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hebei Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Anatomy of an Embezzlement Scam ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702661.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702661.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Samuel E. Pope needed money fast. The landlord raised the rent on his Head to Toe hair salon in Southwest Washington, the bills were piling up, and he was on the verge of closing. ]]></description><dc:creator>Cheryl W. Thompson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Anatomy]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embezzlement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connie Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriette Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter B. Jones (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia A. Steven]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alethia Grooms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marilyn Yoon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayrece Turnbull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricardo Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juanito Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cadillac Escalade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harley-Davidson Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel E. Pope]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlantic City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Gustus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Essex]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Bashore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin McCants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven C. Tabackman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sylvia Moreno]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominican Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infiniti M-Series]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infiniti Q-Series]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[NationsBank Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oldsmobile Motor Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rock Creek Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[SunTrust Banks Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Neiman Marcus Group Inc.]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ A Tale Of Greed, Temptation And Regret ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701573.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701573.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:32:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Samuel E. Pope needed money fast. The landlord raised the rent on his Head to Toe hair salon in Southwest Washington, the bills were piling up, and he was on the verge of closing. ]]></description><dc:creator>Cheryl W. Thompson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greed,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temptation]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Regret]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Palin Accepted $25,000 in Gifts, Alaska Records Show ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503988.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503988.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interes...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632148184" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632148184" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>James V. Grimaldi and Robert O'Harrow Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accepted]]></category><category><![CDATA[$25,000]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gifts,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Records]]></category><category><![CDATA[Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendy Chamberlain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denise Michels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew Nicolai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judy Bockman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meghan Stapleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska Native Heritage Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barrick Gold Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pebble Partnership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Iraqi Red Crescent Paralyzed by Allegations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403938.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403938.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Red Crescent, the country's leading humanitarian organization, has been crippled by allegations of embezzlement and mismanagement, including what Iraqi officials call the inappropriate expenditure of more than $1 million on Washington lobbying firms in an unsuccessful effort to... ]]></description><dc:creator>Amit R. Paley and Ernesto Londoño</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Iraqi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crescent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paralyzed]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allegations]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraqi Red Crescent Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamal Karbouli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abdul Kareem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aboud al-Humeidi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamid Ibrahim al-Awadi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey H. Birnbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mazin A. Salloum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mecca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raheem Hassen al-Igeeli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commission on Integrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraqi Bureau of Supreme Audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[UNICEF]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of South Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ FBI Opens Probe of Finance Giants ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302673.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302673.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The FBI is investigating whether fraud played a role in the troubles at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and American International Group, bringing to 26 the number of bureau investigations of institutions tied to the mortgage debacle, according to two sources familiar with the developments. ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[American International Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Weissmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Kolko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephanie A. Martz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy J. Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Credit Suisse Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Minerals Case Decision Protested ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803960.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803960.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Interior Department has pulled some of its investigators off the Jack Abramoff corruption task force to protest the Justice Department's decision not to pursue charges against two government officials in the separate oil royalties scandal that surfaced last week. ]]></description><dc:creator>Derek Kravitz</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Minerals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decision]]></category><category><![CDATA[Protested]]></category><category><![CDATA[Earl Devaney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Interior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory W. Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Sweeney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirk Kempthorne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interior's Minerals Management Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ So That's What 'Laminated' Means ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803967.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803967.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The House Natural Resources Committee roughed up Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne yesterday over those fun-loving employees in Colorado who took gifts and free trips, used drugs and had sex with employees from the oil and gas companies they were supposed to oversee.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632149937" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632149937" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[So]]></category><category><![CDATA[That's]]></category><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA['Laminated']]></category><category><![CDATA[Means]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirk Kempthorne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bart Gellman]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Tenet]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Government Ethics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Con Artist's Number Is Up Today ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703317.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703317.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Robert Franklin Miller greeted his victims in a swank office just blocks from the White House. It looked high-class, with its spiral staircase, appealing artwork, leather furniture, flat-screen televisions and seemingly busy employees. ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Con]]></category><category><![CDATA[Artist's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Number]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert D. Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Franklin Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Haye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Debnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Alston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Jeffress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Beyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Express Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet Corvette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Kolodner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eastport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey K. Skilling]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magda Jean-Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael K. Atkinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Queen Anne Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard A. Chisholm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard J. Leon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Tax Scam Mastermind Expanded Existing Ploy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091601817.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091601817.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city's tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years. ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mastermind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expanded]]></category><category><![CDATA[Existing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ploy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriette M. Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayrece Turnbull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlantic City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Gustus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[SunTrust Banks Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[A. Scott Bolden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbie Dolls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Keating]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet G. Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Neiman Marcus Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy G. Lynch]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nordstrom Inc.]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Others Pleading Guilty ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091601270.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091601270.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Harriette Walters pleaded guilty yesterday to engineering the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history. Nine others have pleaded guilty in the tax scandal. ]]></description><dc:creator>Post</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Others]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pleading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriette Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia Steven]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marilyn Yoon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert O. Steven]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alethia Grooms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricardo Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connie Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Gustus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayrece Turnbull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel E. Pope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ A Leader in Industry Relations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103869.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103869.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We were expecting a deluge of calls yesterday from people seeking tips on how to land jobs at the hottest agency in the federal government: the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service office in Lakewood, Colo.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632150252" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632150252" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leader]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lakewood]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Interior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[One GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viking Gas Grills]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Report Says Oil Agency Ran Amok ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001829.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001829.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Government officials in charge of collecting billions of dollars worth of royalties from oil and gas companies accepted gifts, steered contracts to favored clients and engaged in drug use and illicit sex with employees of the energy firms, federal investigators reported yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Derek Kravitz and Mary Pat Flaherty</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amok]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory W. Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy W. Mayberry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul A. Denett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milton K. Dial]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Interior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minerals Management Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall B. Luthi]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby L. Maxwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danny C. Onorato]]></category><category><![CDATA[Earl E. Devaney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Ellen Helfrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC South Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary-Williams Energy Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geomatrix Consultants Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston Texans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interior's Minerals Management Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[PGA TOUR Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royalty Policy Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Contracting Audit Agency Target of Investigations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090902925.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090902925.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In 2005 and 2006, the Defense Contract Audit Agency helped enable Boeing to recover about $270 million in losses from a failed commercial satellite business, approving unorthodox accounting methods that allowed the company to receive the payments through an Air Force contract, according to testimony... ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Dana Hedgpeth</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Contracting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Target]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investigations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defense Contract Audit Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Hackler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defense Criminal Investigative Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[April G. Stephenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danielle Brian]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Beck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Kutz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ In China, Police Clash With Protesters Who Invested in Illegal Schemes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503517.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503517.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, Sept. 5 -- Tens of thousands of angry protesters, many of whom lost their life savings in illegal investment schemes run by legitimate real estate and mining companies, clashed with police this week in Hunan province, residents and news agencies reported Friday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Maureen Fan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[China,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clash]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Protesters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invested]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illegal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schemes]]></category><category><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hunan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liu Songjie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing Institute of Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hunan Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[People's Daily]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanguan Real Estate Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ A Con Game In Pinstripes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403191.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403191.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We're entering that exciting phase of any financial crisis when the lawsuits come fast and furious, criminal charges are lodged, and Wall Street firms agree to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for having snookered their customers once again.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632150674" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632150674" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Steven Pearlstein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Con]]></category><category><![CDATA[Game]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pinstripes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[JP Morgan Chase & Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomberg LP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Credit Suisse Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wachovia Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Metropolitan Money Store Scheme ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303650.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303650.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A lawyer who was charged with participating in the Metropolitan Money Store mortgage foreclosure scheme pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, the U.S. attorney's office in Maryland said. ]]></description><dc:creator>Henri E. Cauvin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pleads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Money]]></category><category><![CDATA[Store]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scheme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Allison]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joy Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kurt Fordham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger W. Titus]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Census Bureau]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Two Former Brokers Charged With Fraud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303651.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303651.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, Sept. 3 -- Two former Wall Street brokers were indicted Wednesday and accused by federal regulators of putting more than $1 billion of client money into unauthorized investments backed by shaky collateral such as subprime mortgages, and misleading customers about the nature of the... ]]></description><dc:creator>Heather Landy</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brokers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charged]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric S. Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Credit Suisse Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenpoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julian T. Tzolov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew M. Calamari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Breen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Weinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zurich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Former KBR Chief Pleads Guilty to Bribery Charges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303541.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303541.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former chief executive of construction firm KBR pleaded guilty yesterday to federal bribery charges in connection with the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004. ]]></description><dc:creator>Marcy Gordon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[KBR]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pleads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bribery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halliburton Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Veselka]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew Friedrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kellogg Company]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. Reining In Prosecutors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803249.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803249.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Justice Department issued new guidelines yesterday to rein in prosecutors pursuing corporate fraud cases, bowing to pressure from Congress.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632151217" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632151217" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Schmidt</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dept.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reining]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prosecutors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Filip]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[KPMG LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Lawson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephanie Martz]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Bar Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[MCI Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[NYSE Euronext]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Businesses Cite a Catch-22 After Miss. Immigration Raid ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703931.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703931.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The arrests this week of nearly 600 immigrant workers at a manufacturing plant in Laurel, Miss., are fueling a national debate over a federal system to check new hires' work documents, a program whose expansion the Bush administration has made a cornerstone of its fight against illegal immigration. ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu, Alejandro Lazo and Darryl Fears</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Businesses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cite]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catch-22]]></category><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miss.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raid]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stewart A. Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Industries]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernie Kohl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angelica Nurseries]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jena (Louisiana)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kennedyville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Myles Gladstone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randel K. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Al-Qaeda Masters Terrorism On the Cheap ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301962.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301962.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LONDON -- Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, al-Qaeda has increasingly turned to local cells that run extremely low-cost operations and generate cash through criminal scams, bypassing the global financial dragnet set up by the United States and Europe. ]]></description><dc:creator>Craig Whitlock</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Masters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheap]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blair Duffton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chandler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omar Khyam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Swain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Police Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis M. Lormel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ibrahim Warde]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leeds (England)]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jean-Louis Bruguiere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shehzad Tanweer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charity Commission for England and Wales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corporate Risk International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[HSBC Holdings plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[The British Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tufts University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Biden's Son, Brother Named in Two Suits ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082302200.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082302200.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A son and a brother of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, court records show. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kimberly Kindy and Joe Stephens</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Biden's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Son,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brother]]></category><category><![CDATA[Named]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Lotito Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Gravante Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian C. Wille]]></category><category><![CDATA[LLB Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional Quarterly Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York State Unified Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paradigm Companies LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephane Farouze]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank AG]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. Moves Toward Charges Against Contractors in Iraq Shooting ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081601967.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081601967.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal prosecutors have sent target letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, indicating a high likelihood the Justice Department will seek to indict at least some of the men, according to three sources close to the case.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632151699" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632151699" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber and Karen DeYoung</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dept.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shooting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blackwater Worldwide]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nisoor Square]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne E. Tyrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Parry]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Channing Phillips]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean Boyd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Silliman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Budget Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Murtha Intervenes for Company That Broke Export Law ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403217.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403217.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat known for delivering federal money to defense contractors in his district, is now going to bat for a constituent's company that was convicted last year of illegally exporting components of military equipment. ]]></description><dc:creator>Christopher Lee</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Murtha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intervenes]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Export]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Murtha]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[James K. Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[David C. Trimble]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Beth Buchanan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret M. Gatti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew Mazonkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melanie Sloan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Balya]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Alaskans Fret About a Future Without Help From 'Uncle Ted' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003358.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003358.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ANCHORAGE, July 30 -- Alaska's vast landscape is littered with federally funded tributes to Sen. Ted Stevens's single-minded promotion of the state, from the brushed steel of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to the $187 million that subsidizes air mail for the one-third of residents wh... ]]></description><dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Alaskans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fret]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Future]]></category><category><![CDATA[Without]]></category><category><![CDATA[Help]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA['Uncle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted']]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Whitaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Goldsmith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairbanks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivan Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Roderick]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ensign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juneau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margie Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Begich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Doogan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cook Inlet Region Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Republican Senatorial Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Alaska Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Alaska's Institute]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Sen. Stevens Indicted On 7 Corruption Counts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072901416.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072901416.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Alaska's Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, was indicted yesterday on seven charges of making false statements about more than $250,000 that corporate executives doled out to overhaul his Anchorage area house. ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Paul Kane</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sen.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indicted]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[7]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category><category><![CDATA[Counts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill J. Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendan V. Sullivan Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[David H. Laufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet G. Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[John M. Wolfe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juneau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Begich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheldon Whitehouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Mustang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Rover Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Science Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Air Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viking Gas Grills]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Bid to Trick Bankers Is Alleged ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072401917.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072401917.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the D.C. tax scheme began to unravel last year, Harriette Walters made an emotional phone call to Alethia Grooms, her friend, gambling partner and real estate agent.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632152020" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632152020" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bid]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bankers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alleged]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alethia Grooms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriette Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayrece Turnbull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Gustus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheila Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[SunTrust Banks Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Tapp]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue]]></category><category><![CDATA[David S. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet G. Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin McCants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temika G. Gustus]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ UBS Defrauded Investors, Cuomo Alleges in Lawsuit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403740.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403740.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo filed a securities fraud lawsuit yesterday against UBS, alleging that the Zurich investment bank marketed billions of dollars in unconventional bonds to investors around the country while improperly claiming they were as safe and liquid as cash. ]]></description><dc:creator>Christopher Twarowski</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[UBS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defrauded]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investors,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuomo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alleges]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zurich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Corngold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karina Byrne]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Galvin]]></category><category><![CDATA[North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Hornsby Convicted On 6 Counts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302379.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302379.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Andre J. Hornsby, the former Prince George's County public schools chief whose first corruption trial ended in a hung jury last year, was convicted yesterday on six of the 22 federal charges brought against him in his retrial. ]]></description><dc:creator>Henri E. Cauvin and Ruben Castaneda</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Convicted]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[6]]></category><category><![CDATA[Counts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sienna Owens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Audrey Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Joffrion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Bonsib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Bantly]]></category><category><![CDATA[John M. Sheridan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Boswell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael R. Pauze]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter J. Messitte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rod Rosenstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart A. Berman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upper Marlboro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Court Ruling Tightens Investors' Safety Net ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303145.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303145.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A recent decision by a federal appellate court goes a long way to protect investors. ]]></description><dc:creator>Michelle Singletary</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tightens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investors']]></category><category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Net]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melanie Lubin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Financial Industry Regulatory Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Gansler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Singletary]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lothian]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ In Immigration Cases, Employers Feel the Pressure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072002293.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072002293.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A three-year-old enforcement campaign against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants is increasingly resulting in arrests and criminal convictions, using evidence gathered by phone taps, undercover agents and prisoners who agree to serve as government witnesses.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632153311" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632153311" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Employers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Feel]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pressure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stewart A. Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Braulio Pereyra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Lamb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Sharry]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agriprocessors Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doris M. Meissner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Rigg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marshalltown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Postville]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Del Monte Foods Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University Law Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[IFCO Systems NV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration and Naturalization Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[North America]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Case Goes to Jury in Ex-Schools Chief's Retrial ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502747.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502747.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The witness list was virtually unchanged. The judge and lawyers were the same. So, too, was much of the evidence, as former Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby, whose last trial ended in a hung jury, was tried again on public corruption charges. ]]></description><dc:creator>Henri E. Cauvin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goes]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jury]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ex-Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Retrial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sienna Owens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Joffrion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Bonsib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael R. Pauze]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter J. Messitte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart A. Berman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ A 'Cleaner' of Athletes' Dirty Laundry ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502873.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502873.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With the influx of big money in sports in the last 10 years, the need for a "cleaner" like David Cornwell to make all of an athlete's problems disappear has significantly increased.  ]]></description><dc:creator>Les Carpenter</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA['Cleaner']]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Athletes']]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laundry]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Cornwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reggie Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leigh Steinberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Bonds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Vick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Clemens]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta Falcons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Watkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carolina Panthers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Parker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvey Keitel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Moorad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Basinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Korey Stringer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami Dolphins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Sitrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota Vikings]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans Saints]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC North Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC South Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rae Carruth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricky Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco Giants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shawne Merriman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidwell Friends School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tufts University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston Wolfe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Taking On Russia's Ubiquitous Bribery ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301928.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301928.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MOSCOW -- Earlier this year, with final exams looming, Alexander and 10 of his fellow mathematics students were summoned by their professor at a Moscow technical university. All were missing course work needed to complete their study of a field known as discrete mathematics, and without it they... ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Taking]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ubiquitous]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bribery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgy Satarov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yelena Panfilova]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow Kremlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transparency International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Yeltsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penza]]></category><category><![CDATA[INDEM Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Comparative Social Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Public Projects]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maldives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow's Higher School]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Keeping Closer Tabs On Brokers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101633.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101633.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Should your mortgage loan officer's fingerprints be on file in a national electronic database, even if he or she has never been convicted of a crime?<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632153931" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632153931" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kenneth R. Harney</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Keeping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tabs]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brokers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Canfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Savitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth R. Harney]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Conservative Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumer Mortgage Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Mortgage Brokers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Corporate Crime Probes To Get New Guidelines ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902167.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902167.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Justice Department officials yesterday agreed to revise guidelines that govern how prosecutors investigate corporate crimes, handing a significant victory to business groups and defense lawyers who claim the existing policy tramples on defendants' rights. ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Corporate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probes]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Get]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guidelines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Filip]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis A. Kaplan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Lawson]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Andersen LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[KPMG LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Advocates Speak Up for Illegal Day Laborers Cheated of Wages ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702845.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702845.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was a relatively small amount, $720, that José was owed for 72 hours of construction work in the District. Most immigrant day laborers, fleeced by a casual employer and unaware they had any legal recourse, would have swallowed their anger and let the matter drop. ]]></description><dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Advocates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Speak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illegal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Day]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laborers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheated]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Varela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ulises Ramirez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francisco Luna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tenants Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Home Depot Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Gandhi Works on Image Control ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303951.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303951.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Natwar M. Gandhi calls himself an apolitical bean counter, but the D.C. government's chief financial officer begins his daily routine with a long-standing Washington rite: the power breakfast. ]]></description><dc:creator>David Nakamura</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Works]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Image]]></category><category><![CDATA[Control]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natwar M. Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Rivlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony A. Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Koestler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Tangherlini]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah K. Nichols]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marvin Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanjay Puri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilson Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[BDO Seidman LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado Department of Revenue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[John A. Wilson Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. India Political Action Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Girlfriend Adds to Evidence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203388.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070203388.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the oldest daughter of Andre J. Hornsby showed up in Florida in summer 2006, she was, according to testimony yesterday in federal court, carrying a secret code.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632154564" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/business/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=471632154564" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Henri E. Cauvin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ex-Girlfriend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adds]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evidence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre Hornsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sienna Owens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Bonsib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter J. Messitte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart A. Berman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103071.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103071.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ More than 900 cases alleging that government contractors and drugmakers have defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars are languishing in a backlog that has built up over the past decade because the Justice Department cannot keep pace with the surge in charges brought by whistle-blowers,... ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Backlog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alleging]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royce Lamberth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Grayson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick M. Morgan Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Burns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Squibb Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles S. Leeper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition Provisional Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Custer Battles LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oracle Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Agency for International Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[B.L. Harbert International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
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<item><title><![CDATA[ N.Y. Court Backs Grasso in Pay Suit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500564.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500564.html?nav=rss_business/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New York's top court yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that tossed out fo