http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15245 <div class="text blurb">Now, three years after his time at the helm of the central bank ended in scandal, he goes on trial in Milan on Thursday, accused of rigging markets in order to keep Italian banks in Italian hands.</div> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15245 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15244 <div class="text blurb">Alberto W. Vilar, the investor and music lover accustomed to opulent living, front-row opera seats and the gratitude of arts impresarios, now faces a more humble prospect: prison. </div> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15244 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15246 <div class="text blurb">On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit charging Mr. Cuban with insider trading for selling shares of a small Internet search company in 2004, just before its share price fell.</div> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15246 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15242 <div class="text blurb">As public scrutiny of Wall Street pay intensifies, one bank has already decided what it will award in bonuses to its top seven executives this year: nothing.</div> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15242 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15241 <div class="text blurb">The case may put pressure on Deutsche Bank, which has been under criminal investigation over its tax shelter work from the late 1990s through 2001.</div> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15241 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15243 <div class="text blurb">Chile’s health minister said Thursday that the country’s public health system had failed to notify at least 512 people that they were infected with H.I.V., and that private-sector services did not inform an additional 1,364 that they were carrying the virus, which causes AIDS. </div> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15243 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15240 <div class="text blurb">Electric utility PacifiCorp has tentatively agreed to remove four dams from the Klamath River, in a deal that would end one of the West's most rancorous water disputes and could serve as a settlement model for similar fights.</div> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15240 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15239 <div class="text blurb">The justices voted 6 to 3 to lift restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar off the Southern California coast, backing the military in a longstanding battle over whether anti-submarine training harms marine mammals. </div> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15239 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15238 <div class="text blurb">A senior Swiss executive at the banking giant UBS has been indicted in an investigation of the bank and its offshore private banking services for wealthy Americans, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.</div> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15238 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15237 <div class="text blurb">The European Commission fined companies controlling the Continent’s auto glass market a record 1.4 billion euros ($1.77 billion), on Wednesday for price-fixing over five years. </div> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15237 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15236 <div class="text blurb">The Hong Kong government finding, reported late Tuesday, is the latest indication that melamine, a chemical used to make plastic and fertilizer, has seeped into large parts of China’s food and feed industry, posing potential health hazards to consumers.</div> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15236 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15235 <div class="text blurb">Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years — but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn’t been for an international price-fixing cartel, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.</div> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15235 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15234 <div class="text blurb">Seven years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, the country faces an increasingly uncertain future. Award-winning investigative journalists Pratap Chatterjee and Nobu Sakamoto, reported from Afghanistan immediately following the invasion, and now return to the country as part of a CorpWatch/KPFA Radio collaboration to take stock.</div> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15234 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15233 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15233 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15232 <div class="text blurb">Two more Putnam County voters - Martha Louise Harrington and Michael K. Koon - have come forward about problems they experienced on early-voting electronic machines at the Winfield courthouse.</div> Tue, 21 Oct 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15232