class war Lickspittle consigliere: how the super-rich abuse their wealth managers as loyalty tests Cory Doctorow
News SCOTUS rules Donald Trump financial records must be released to NY DA, but House won't get tax returns before election Xeni Jardin
corruption Trump administration gave a $700M bailout to a $70M truck company after it allegedly defrauded the Pentagon Thom Dunn
jeffrey epstein The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam Thom Dunn
basket of deplorables $1.28 billion border wall contract goes to company with history of fraud and sex crimes Mark Frauenfelder
politics Healthcare providers facing criminal inquiries got coronavirus stimulus checks from Trump Xeni Jardin
Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein isn't going to like Rikers Island, says former inmate Mark Frauenfelder
crime Ex-Microsoft engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currencies from Microsoft to make extravagant purchases Xeni Jardin
corruption Trump commutes sentence of corrupt governor Rod Blagojevich, pardons Giuliani crony Bernard Kerik Rob Beschizza
telcoms Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% Cory Doctorow
finance The cum-ex scam stole $60b from European tax authorities: it's monumentally boring, complicated, and very, very important Cory Doctorow
corporatism The sordid tale of Microsoft's epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS Cory Doctorow
crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
taxes Howto: file your taxes for free without getting defrauded into paying a big tax-prep firm Cory Doctorow
science fiction Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL Cory Doctorow
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
corruption Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
