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    November 8, 2011

    60 Minutes Expected to Air Investigation of Pelosi Stock Investments

    Nancy Pelosi​Indications from the Beltway media world are that 60 Minutes is preparing to air a segment exploring legislative actions House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi oversaw that might have benefited her husband's stock investments.According to multiple news reports, 60 Minutes reporter Steve K ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    Why Obama's mortgage-relief program failed

    Nancy Pelosi​Indications from the Beltway media world are that 60 Minutes is preparing to air a segment exploring legislative actions House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi oversaw that might have benefited her husband's stock investments.According to multiple news reports, 60 Minutes reporter Steve K ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    GreenFinanceSF's Sole Accomplishment: Removing Fecal Stench From One Man's Home

    Peeeuuueeeww​A local program designed to slash millions of dollars from San Franciscans' electricity bills shut down  last month with a single accomplishment to its name: It encouraged a local man to remove the stench of sewage that had permeated his Bernal Heights duplex."Our dogs were getti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    City Has $2.6 Million Stimulus Surplus Burning Hole in its Pocket

    Program's implosion leaves San Francisco with millions to spend and nothing to buy.That was fast...​As City Hall struggles to close a $483 million budget gap, bureaucrats a block away at the San Francisco Department of the Environment are faced with the opposite quandary: They must figure out how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Jingling Thief Flees Laundromat With $350 in Quarters

    How do you inconspicuously steal 1,400 of these? ​In a story that all but begs for puns regarding money laundering, the Ingleside Police Station reports a Monday incident on the 600 block of Monterey. A laundromat owner called the cops, complaining seven of his washers had been jimmied open, and a ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    No Justice

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    SF City Attorney Upends U.S. Credit Card Industry; Minnesota Attorney General Swoops In for the Credit

    Dennis Herrera: He wuz robbed!​Minneapolis barrister Martin Carlson recalls feeling a sense of déjà vu Tuesday upon seeing news reports that his old boss, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, had run a Washington D.C. victory lap in which she took credit for attacking a loophole co ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2009

    Flubbers

    How Federal Home Loan Banks and their execs exacerbated the banking meltdown.

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    Bonfire of the Profanities

    An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    Update: Scandal-Plagued Daly City Banking Regulator Confirms Resignation

    Office of Thrift Supervision Darrel Dochow Darrel Dochow, the banking regulator found to have allowed IndyMac Bank to falsify financial records just before the Southern California lender collapsed last summer, confirmed in an e-mail that he will resign his post in March. In his resignation le ... More >>

  • Music

    September 17, 2008

    Free association economy

    Office of Thrift Supervision Darrel Dochow Darrel Dochow, the banking regulator found to have allowed IndyMac Bank to falsify financial records just before the Southern California lender collapsed last summer, confirmed in an e-mail that he will resign his post in March. In his resignation le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Press Democrat Gives Misleading Solace to Area Bank Depositers

    Office of Thrift Supervision Darrel Dochow Darrel Dochow, the banking regulator found to have allowed IndyMac Bank to falsify financial records just before the Southern California lender collapsed last summer, confirmed in an e-mail that he will resign his post in March. In his resignation le ... More >>

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    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

    There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  • News

    May 29, 2002

    Soft Firm

    Too often, the S.F. law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein strikes settlements that give the firm millions of dollars in legal fees -- and its class action clients too little

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