Subject: Corporate Crime

• The Waiting

  February 27, 2008

• No News

  February 29, 2008

• Ka-Ching!

  March 5, 2008

• Weekly to Judge: Time to Put Things Right

  June 11, 2008

• Back In Court

  July 8, 2008

• Video: Nader Blasts Obama at SF State

  September 30, 2008

• Local Madoff Victim Speaks Out

  Although Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme engulfed its share of wealthy East Coasters, a comprehensive list of victims made public today as part of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing revealed 43 Madoff accounts attached to San Francisco addresses. Some belonged to investment firms and venture capital giant Arthur Rock, but regular folks in San Francisco also lost their shirts.    Take Sherry Maccabee, for example. "I've worked hard, done my job, paid my ta

  February 6, 2009

• Appealing to a Higher Authority

  We respond to the latest ruling in the Guardian's lawsuit against us.

  July 23, 2008

• Untouchable

  Half of U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's lawyers have quit. But as he remains bunkered against criticism, who's minding the shop?

  October 4, 2006

• The Parmalat Syndrome

  How U.S. financial firms -- including Bank of America -- allegedly abetted a multibillion-dollar fraud, and how U.S. regulators are letting them get away with it

  January 12, 2005

• Son of Super Swindler

  The unsettling link between a group of firms that sell financial planning services to elderly Californians and one of the most notorious con men in U.S. history

  September 10, 2003

• The Ghost of Scandals Past

  Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

  April 17, 2002

• Yellow-Bellied Journalism

  Hearst executives' behavior in the Examiner sale was nothing less than cowardly

  August 2, 2000

• Mecklin

  May 10, 2000

• Reviews

  April 29, 1998

• The DA's Svengali

  Earlier this year, the District Attorney's Office was flirting with farce. Then Terence Hallinan called in David Millstein.

  September 4, 1996

• SF Weekly appeals the Bay Guardian's big payday to a higher court

  June 10, 2009

• Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

  Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement running a couple columns below Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon. "You can now earn: 1 year -- 11.00 percent," the advertisement announces, urging readers to go to a Web site describing "investment notes"

  July 17, 2009

• Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

  July 29, 2009

• Former 49er Craig Newsome Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against NCAA

  Courtesy of Harmann Studios and the Green Bay Packers. Used with permission. Craig Newsome celebrates the Green Bay Packers' victory in Super Bowl XXXI following the 1996-97 NFL season​Former Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers defensive back Craig Newsome has joined the ranks of U.S. athletes suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Newsome and others allege that the organization's requirement that college athletes sign in-perpetuity agreements giving the NCAA's marketing arm

  October 23, 2009

• No Justice

  October 28, 2009

• The Wall Street Journal Bay Area Section Debut Looks a Lot like the New York Times Bay Area Section

  Eh.​We'd like to award the Wall Street Journal's Bay Area section with an even slightly less enthusiastic response than we gave the New York Times. And here it is: "Eh." We have our reasons.  At first, the the addition of Bay Area sections to the nation's most prominent national newspapers sounded pretty exciting. Talented, experienced reporters from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal would be penetrate our sad, sad news vacuum, rewarding

  November 5, 2009