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The husband of a Chicago-area congresswoman pleaded guilty to tax violations and bank fraud for writing bad checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee.
Sept. 1, 2005
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Feb. 24, 2010
Judge throws out Blackwater guards’ charges in Iraqi deaths
Jan. 1, 2010
Business
SNOPA bill seeks to keep employers out of private social networks
April 30, 2012
The internal mechanisms of the Washington lobbying game were inadvertently placed on public display Tuesday during a House committee hearing on an Obama Administration move to reduce prescription drug costs.
May 18, 2016
Politics
A proposed final report by President Obama’s deficit commission warned Wednesday of a fiscal “reckoning” unless major sacrifices are made, but may fail to spur lawmakers to action without support from many members of the bipartisan panel in an upcoming vote.
Dec. 2, 2010
Technology and the Internet
Federal regulators got a sympathetic hearing from Congress on Wednesday for their request for greater powers and funding to police privacy, as lawmakers warned that fines against big companies may be inadequate to change those companies’ conduct.
May 8, 2019
With Apple and other manufacturers complaining about fraudsters selling fake and dangerous knockoffs, members of the House of Representatives pressed executives from Amazon and EBay to take decisive action at a hearing Wednesday.
March 4, 2020
Blagojevich target donors named on list in published news report
March 29, 2009
Consensus on deficit eludes bipartisan panel
Nov. 17, 2010