Mike Huckabee is a very busy man. The former Arkansas governor hosts his weekly television show, Huckabee, on FOX News. He campaigns for candidates that he endorses through his Huck PAC. Last month, it was announced that Huckabee would lead fundraising efforts as chancellor of the new Victory University Foundation in Memphis. He’s reportedly recording [...]
Tapes of an admitted 9/11 plotter being interrogated in a secret overseas prison were discovered under a desk at the CIA, years after the agency told the Justice Department the recordings were destroyed. One audio and two video recordings captured Ramzi Binalshibh being questioned in a jail in Rabat, Morocco, in 2002, the Associated Press [...]
Barclays Capital is set to announce plans to lay off about 400 back-office workers, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told DealBook on Wednesday. The cuts may presage similar cost-saving maneuvers at its rivals, which like Barclays saw profit slide in their sales and trading units over the summer. Nearly two years after [...]
Contrary to first impressions, the new financial reform law could help rather than hinder Goldman Sachs, The Los Angeles Times reported. After the bill was passed last month, analysts estimated that as much as one-tenth of the bank’s earnings could disappear given new restrictions. However, according to the newspaper, senior Goldman executives have recently advised [...]
Goldman Sachs is under investigation by United States and British watchdogs over the timing of disclosures relating to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud charges against the firm, The Telegraph reported. Last month, the bank agreed to pay $550 million to settle the charges, but is being investigated by the Financial Services Authority in London [...]
Record numbers of illegal immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office, and the number of audits of businesses that hire undocumented workers has quadrupled during the same period, The Washington Post reported. The administration’s plan to overhaul federal immigration laws has led to the deportation of about 400,000 people this fiscal year. That’s [...]
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