Judge in New Orleans invites to lunch Davis McAlary, a cheerfully wacky musician in the HBO series "Treme." McAlary is running for city council, mostly to help sell his CDs.
Read More »BP, Big Oil get big win from judges not judging
Good news for BP and other oil, coal and chemical companies recently seeped out from New Orleans, barely noticed in the blanket coverage of the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Without having to prove they deserved to, the ...
Read More »Courts further punish veterans with problems
He is wearing an orange prison jumpsuit during the TV interview, so you figure life hasn't turned out so well for this open-faced young man with an engaging smile.
Read More »Count crimes committed in oily Gulf of Mexico
At least one federal crime had indisputably been committed when oil started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico and approached land. Another criminal act became clear when the first oil-covered sea bird died. Even if everyone involved in the Deepwater ...
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Read More »I’d like some sex with that drug order
For Novartis sales rep Marjorie Salame, it was bad enough that a doctor who was her best customer propositioned her at a company-sponsored party, and in vulgar terms at that.
Read More »Put a lesbian on Supreme Court even if Kagan isn’t
Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, it now seems that Elena Kagan is straight. So say longtime friends, including that notorious hetero, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who knows a heterosexual woman when he sees one.
Read More »Go short on successful prosecution of Wall Street
There is a sense out there that what Wall Street did to the rest of America is downright criminal. Financial wizards created a multitrillion dollar, unregulated market of derivatives that few Americans knew about much less understood. Wall Street raked ...
Read More »BP spills promises more easily than it keeps them
As thousands of gallons of crude oil undulated toward the five-state Gulf of Mexico coastline earlier this week, BP Plc’s chief executive assured shrimpers, fisherman and everyone else that his company takes full responsibility for the cleanup and any damages ...
Read More »Goldman primes legal defense before Senate
For a moment last week as the Goldman Sachs drama unfolded, it looked as if the bank might defend itself against a sensational civil fraud charge by hanging out to dry one of its vice presidents, the fabulous Frenchman, Fabrice ...
Read More »Squawk Box Six, cheated in court, deserve a break
Merrill Lynch branch manager Joe Lauricella worried when he read that the government was prosecuting brokers for letting day traders listen to live action from Merrill’s trading desk. The brokers he supervised had been doing the same thing, unaware there ...
Read More »‘Socialist’ Obama to move Supreme Court to right
Republicans would be busily planning their filibuster if President Barack Obama nominated to the highest court anyone who opposes the death penalty, supports abortion choice, condemns presidential overreach even during wartime, favors gay rights and says church and state should ...
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