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    By Maura Johnston

    | 10:00AM 12/10/2009
    A splashy music-industry event in New York City on Tuesday night began, inevitably, with a speech by Bono. American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and pop artiste Lady GaGa closed the gala out. In between, passionate testimonials from Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and Universal Music Group CEO Doug...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 12:00PM 9/03/2008
    A new type of insurance scam, the STOLI, preying on the elderly, has begun to spread from the geriatric heartlands of Arizona and Florida. The Stranger-originated life insurance (STOLI) scam works this way -- The scammer offers an elderly person a lump sum if they will buy a life insurance policy,...