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In the wake of a FOX Business report that former American International Group Chairman and CEO Hank Greenberg would be pressed by government attorneys Friday in Starr v. U.S. Government, sources say Greenberg was abruptly removed from this week’s witness list.

After Hillary Clinton raked in a $225,000 speaking fee, Bill Clinton was in New York on Tuesday earning what one source said was a similar six-figure payday from Veritas Capital.

In the 80s corporate America realized it needed to get lean to remain competitive in increasingly global markets. Now it’s Washington’s turn.

New email surfaces in the IRS Lois Lerner controversy—this time, Lerner was clearly upset about an IRS staffer who was getting paid up to $138,136 annually for doing union work.

It’s not just fat cat hedge funds, banks, or Wall Street investment companies that benefit when U.S. companies cut their tax bills by moving their headquarters overseas via mergers with foreign concerns.

Attention all super heroes competing for our attention this summer on the big screen: We’re just not into you anymore. Or at least not as much as we were, or our kids were.

What would happen if we judged a lawmakers' success by how many rules they took off the books? How much money they saved and tax code deleted? 

What would happen if we judged a lawmakers' success by how many rules they took off the books? How much money they saved and tax code deleted? 

Back-slapping is ingrained in our political culture, and woe to the politician on either side who doesn’t embrace its effective power.

Back-slapping is ingrained in our political culture, and woe to the politician on either side who doesn’t embrace its effective power.

The government seems to have adopted an 'either or' strategy when it comes to investigating the fraud that contributed to the financial crisis. Why not huge settlements and perp walks?

Walgreen isn’t the only company under pressure, including by shareholders such as Goldman Sachs, to move its headquarters overseas due to high U.S. taxation.

Bernie Madoff's office help is looking at jail time for their roles in the fraud. But the bankers and feeder fund honchos who contributed most to the scam will never see a day in prison.

General Motors (NYSE:GM) is now offering $500 cash back to people who bought its recalled cars -- to use if they want to buy or lease a new vehicle -- as the automaker faces multiple government probes into why it failed to notify in a timely fashion ignition problems in a number of popular vehicles.

A couple of grade school kids can predict the fallout from a merger between the two largest cable companies. Will the Justice Department and the FCC see it the same way?

Gangsters facing lengthy jail time broke their silence decades ago, but the tradition appears to be alive and well among former employees of SAC Capital.

The federal government has moved to shut down SeaWorld’s trainer-and-whale interactions, the fallout from deaths and injuries caused by its killer whales, the subject of the recent documentary Blackfish.

Among a flurry of bad deals that let big banks off the hook, JPMorgan's $2 billion Madoff deal may be the worst.

From his perch on the federal bench in lower Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff has made it his mission to hold Wall Street accountable. He's at it again.

It may not be fair, but many retired public employees are going to have to accept pension cuts or risk a nationwide wave of municipal bankruptcies.