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Experts Warn of Security Risks in Financial Downturn

Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
Top UBS Executive Indicted In Florida

A senior Swiss banker has been indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by helping about 20,000 U.S. clients hide $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-12-2008
Up in the Air

Benjamin B. Lacy and his wife Debra sipped beer and munched on beef carpaccio a few weeks ago in Munich at a commercial real estate gathering. In recent years, the Lacys have advised Germans to invest about $1 billion in office buildings, helping pump up the regional market.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-04-2008
IRS, Justice Target Undisclosed Assets In Swiss Accounts

At the Beverly Hills office of criminal defense lawyer Edward M. Robbins Jr., anxious new clients are showing up with an unexpected problem.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008
AIG Founder Wielded Personal Influence in Washington

In the four decades that Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg was at the helm of American International Group, he persuaded Washington to back him on many deals that helped his insurance company beat competitors and ultimately grow into the 18th-largest corporation in the world.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-30-2008
FBI Began Investigating AIG in March

Federal investigators have been scrutinizing American International Group since March, focusing on whether the insurance giant knowingly concealed mammoth losses that helped lead to the company's $85 billion federal bailout this month.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-24-2008
$13 Billion in Iraq Aid Wasted Or Stolen, Ex-Investigator Says

A former Iraqi official estimated yesterday that more than $13 billion meant for reconstruction projects in Iraq was wasted or stolen through elaborate fraud schemes.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-22-2008
Salmonella-Tainted JalapeÃ±o Found in Texas

Federal officials investigating a three-month-old salmonella outbreak have isolated the bacteria in a jalapeÃ±o pepper from a small distribution facility in McAllen, Tex., and yesterday warned consumers nationwide to avoid eating raw jalapeÃ±os or products that contain them until more is known.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-21-2008
Suicides Point to Gaps in Treatment

Peasant farmer Jose Lopez-Gregorio, 32, left his wife and five children behind in Guatemala with two bags of corn, barely enough food for one month, when he decided to find work in the United States. Detained crossing the Mexican border and held in an Arizona immigration center, he felt guilty, h...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 05-12-2008
Mixed Results in U.S. Anti-Terror Cases

When seven ragtag men in a Miami religious sect were indicted in 2006 for their role in a bizarre plot to blow up the FBI Miami office and Chicago's Sears Tower, then- Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said the case represented "a new brand of terrorism" among homegrown gangs that "may...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 04-20-2008

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