Corporate Ethics

Occupy Wall Street Finance Report Reveals Money Woes; Press Team Unfazed In Statement

Yesterday, NY1 brought our attention to the news that New York's Occupy Wall Street appears to be tight on funds, findings based on on a weekly report for March 2 posted on the New York General Assembly's website. The Accounting Working Group report reads: "at our current rate of expenditure, we wil ... More >>

"Occupy Wall Street" Exploitation Examined By Olbermann and I

​On last night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith and I chewed over the weird way TV and movie cameras have been diving onto Occupy Wall Street, from the Real World casting notice looking for activists to the alleged Dark Knight Rises flirtation with marching extras.

Lap-Dancing Strippers Perform at Extra-Credit Business Ethics Symposium

​The past few months have brought a wave of collegiate indiscretions. There was the incident at Northwestern in which two people demonstrated the use of a device called the "fucksaw" in front of a human sexuality class. There was the roof-sex incident at USC. And now, a professor at Lasalle Un ... More >>

Sweatshop Free Upper West Side Rallies the Troops to Battle Saigon Grill

westsidespirit.comThe restaurant, in calmer times​Saigon Grill is associated more with being the site of labor disputes than for the Vietnamese cuisine it dishes up. It's been embroiled in battles since 2007, and picketers and protesters are a common occurrence in front of the restaurant. Ev ... More >>

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Did Comptoller Candidate John Liu Work in a Sweatshop? Daily News Doubts It

In a campaign season that has been practically devoid of controversy, Queens Councilman and frontrunner for City Comptroller John Liu got into a spat with the Daily News this weekend over whether he really did work in a sweatshop as a child. On Saturday, The News ran a story with the headline: "City ... More >>

Times Presents the Softer Side of Sweatshops

As we saw in the Liberty Garment case back in February, garment workers are subject to all kinds of abuse and only slowly if ever compensated. Some weeks back, raids on Forest Uniform and its contractor Technical Garment made headlines because some of its products -- created by employees working up ... More >>

Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

Ponzi Titan R. Allen Stanford Meets the Art World: Chris Burden's Gold Frozen

New millennial performance artists Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford long since one-upped the once-extreme antics of avant-pioneers like Marina Abramović or Chris Burden. Car-crucifixions and self-inflicted gunshot wounds can't hope but pale next to the sleight of hand that transmutates billio ... More >>

Madoff Lawyer Has Valuable Experience with Madoff-Involved Crooks

The glossies interview movie stars and scene-makers, but the New York Law Journal interviews Bernie Madoff's lawyer. As you might expect, though, counselor Ira Lee Sorkin doesn't say much. But his history with Madoff is interesting: After meeting the swindler in the 1980s, the former SEC prosecutor, ... More >>

Alert! Bernie Madoff will be a no-show at Friday's meeting of creditors. Leave your guns at home.

Love the note at the Madoff Trustee Site about Friday's "Meeting of Creditors" in the auditorium of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in lower Manhattan: Due to the fact that this case involves a criminal matter, the Trustee does not expect that any member of pre-liquidation management of BLMIS will be present ... More >>

Madoff's Wife Pulled Millions Just Before Bernie's Arrest

Just a day after swindler Bernie Madoff cut a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he once again agreed not to dispose of any assets, it's being reported that his wife Ruth took $15.5 million out of a Madoff account late last year -- $5.5 million in November, and $10 million o ... More >>

SEC dumps chief 'enforcer' on Madoff scandal; Bernie reaches partial settlement with probers

From HedgeFund.net: The Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement chief is out as the agency faces anger over its handling of the Bernie Madoff alleged Ponzi scam. The SEC said Monday that Linda Thomsen, its director of enforcement, was leaving to return to the private sector. There have be ... More >>

Gary Ackerman's phony bluster: He and Congress pals deserve blame; his own district hard hit by Bernie Madoff

It's time to stop pinning the "news" tag on Gary Ackerman's angry outburst at the SEC yesterday for not stopping Bernie Madoff. Perhaps the most entertaining part of the House hearing, yes. But while the New York Democrat yelled at the SEC, whistleblower Harry Markopolos spoke more softly but cut d ... More >>

Fossils still bite: Bernie Madoff and prehistoric snakes

Good for the New York Times! Always trying to take a broad view (even when one doesn't exist, as Jack Shafer often points out), the paper weighs in on how the plight of Bernie Madoff's white-haired victims gives us valuable insights about the global meltdown with this morning's "Fossils of Larges ... More >>

Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

Sitting target: Schumer blasts Madoff with elephant gun

MSNBC captured Schumer's spiel today about the Madoff scandal. Today's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Bernie Madoff scandal was a perfect chance for pols to grab at the golden ring of video clips, and it looks as if the winner was...New York's own Chuck Schumer! If you missed the dog- ... More >>

On track: Barack Obama's conjunction junction

Can't get enough of Obama's January 17 train ride. Here it is again. Even before today's inauguration, Barack Obama's whistle-stop trip to D.C. brought the best of two worlds to America. Besides being just a really cool thing to do — complete with speeches by the mellifluous new president t ... More >>

Cardinal calls Gaza 'concentration camp' -- lit up by white phosphorus, observers say

Al Jazeera report on white phosphorus in Gaza. As Chico Marx said, "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" That's easy when it comes to Gaza. The Jewish state's brutal use of white phosphorus — alleged over the weekend by observers on the ground dispatched by NYC-based Human Rights Wa ... More >>

Jews v. Arabs: It's war, even if the 'Times' tries to avoid calling it that

Al Jazeera reporting on the war in Gaza Will somebody please call this a war? You won't find the word "war" in this morning's lede story in the New York Times on Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza. Is the Times afraid of offending New York's Jews, especially the right-wing Jewish establ ... More >>

Americans start acting responsibly, sending country deeper into depression

Your own private Idaho. When you can no longer afford even a night out in Boise, Idaho, your country's in deep financial trouble. In a clever immorality tale about 21st century capitalism, the Wall Street Journal tells us this morning that people in the Intermountain West are having to give up m ... More >>

Prosecutors: Madoff Sent Out $1 Million in Jewels After Arrest

The Federal judge considering Bernie Madoff's case told him, understandably, not to send anyone any money. But, prosecutors contended in court yesterday, the Ponzi scheme operator has mailed "at least a million dollars worth of jewelry as gifts to family members and friends" in the interim, and th ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg launches preemptive trip to Israel; invasion of NYC unlikely

Waltz With Bashir, a movie that sprang from a previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon, won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics. A free Madoff Watch T-shirt to the reader who suggests the best title for the first movie spurred by Israel's current invasion of Gaza. On an overseas t ... More >>

Ponzi schemer Norman Hsu claims stories about Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff are 'prejudicial'

Hot Air's Ventilators sing "Runaround Hsu." If you hunger for a good snicker and you're somewhat of a news junkie, what's better than a concise roundup of the best Bernie Madoff news stories — the good parts, the adjectives, the apoplexy? Look no further than a December 22 court document in ... More >>

We're saved! Yankees bail out New York City!

Season's Greetings from Bernie Madoff

Happy holidays: Madoffs shop, Gov. Paterson gallivants

Fellow Arabs honor journalist's feat

Caroline Kennedy in the Senate? Gag me with a silver spoon.

Madoff sets Rolex back

The man who knew too much ... about Madoff

Indiana Jones and the Lost Billions, starring Bernie Madoff as the Grinch

Weekend at Bernie Madoff's

Bush makes Iraqis want to hurl

Finally! A Wall Street Big Confesses All!

White Collar Crime Follies

The Smokey Past

Peccadillo revives Morning Star and memories of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

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The Wages of Sin Is Debt

Dollars and sense: Finally, a day for those who are flat broke

Raging Bulls

High Fashion and Exploitation

Sweatshop Blues

Garment Workers Face Down Cops in Slave-Labor Uniforms

Citizen CEO

The WEF's Corporate Moguls Debate Their Role as Unelected World Leaders

A Study in Synergy

Nike Money Buys a WNYC Talk Show

Sweat Offensive

Sweat Offensive

Garment Workers Assail Donna Karan Labor Practices

Talk of Angels

A French Director's Star-Making Debut

Mutual Satisfaction

Got money on the brain as tax time looms? Save the planet and make a profit.

Geraldine Ferraro: Sweatshop Landlord

Long Hours, Low Pay, Rancid Conditions Are Commonplace at Senate Candidate's Building

Just War Against Nike

Houses and Colleges March on Nike