A former seven-year Bank of America employee alleges in a series of leaked documents that a Bank of America subsidiary, Balboa Insurance, engaged in scams involving insurance policies known as force-placed insurance.
StopTheChamber, a group critical of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says it was the target of a planned dirty tricks campaign. The group has filed an ethics complaint against three partners at the Hunton & Williams law firm.
Watch out, governments and massive corporations: The Internet and social media have broken your stranglehold on power. I'm not talking about the revolutions abroad. I'm talking about a corporate dirty tricks scandal that's been exposed in the U.S.
With the launch of the Apple iPad, the retirement of Larry King and the ascension of WikiLeaks, 2010 was a year for the media history books. Here's columnist Jonathan Berr's list of the top media stories of the year.
As the embattled 39-year-old Australian hacker's lawyers fight his extradition to Sweden, he'll be working on a memoir. The book will be published in the U.S. by Knopf, a division of Random House, and in the U.K. by Canongate. Admirers -- and detractors -- can't wait.
According to the latest leaked U.S. diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks, Pfizer hired investigators to try to uncover evidence of corruption in order to pressure the Nigerian attorney general to drop the case against it.
The story of WikiLeaks illustrates how the Internet is changing cyber warfare. In the battle to control the political conversation, independent groups can now get information out as easily as governments can, and it's harder than ever before for countries to stop them.
EBay is no longer allowing donors to send WikiLeaks money through PayPal, a move that has cut off the largest source of money to the website that has been leaking confidential U.S. government documents. The decision comes as the site has faced a flurry of hacker attacks.
When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asserted that his next big leak would involve documents from a major unnamed bank, investors in Bank of America got nervous and the stock has been on bumpy ride. The question now is: Have the WikiLeaks worries made BofA shares a better buy?
Among Wednesday's top online stories for investors: The best way to generate 1,000% returns; how to trade the Korea conflict; is Bank of America the next WikiLeaks target?
Despite all the media fervor over WikiLeaks massive document dump of decades of U.S. diplomatic correspondence, the leaked material hasn't revealed anything new. But while it may not harm national security, the leak could deal a serious blow to mainstream efforts to increase government transparency.
