Virginia Governor and Attorney General Linked in Scandal
RICHMOND, Va. — A celebrated chef. A political donor with a private jet to lend and a product to pitch. The state’s top two elected officials. Virginia is in the grip of an ... Read more
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Fair Game: Dear S.E.C. Chief: Clock Is Ticking on Mortgage Cases
AFTER receiving unanimous support from the United States Senate, Mary Jo White was confirmed last week as the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. At her swearing-in, she praised S.E.C. officials ... Read more
Aggrieved U.N. Whistle-Blower Seeks Withholding of U.S. Funds
A United Nations whistle-blower who prevailed in a landmark case that exposed evidence of retribution against internal criticism, but who was awarded only a tiny fraction of his claimed financial losses, sought ... Read more
Veterans Affairs Officials Offer Reassurance About Troubled Hospital
JACKSON, Miss. — Senior officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs said on Wednesday that they have begun taking steps to fix problems at an embattled veterans medical center here, including hiring ... Read more
Letter From Europe: A New Death Underscores an Old One
VENICE — When power and influence implode, the shock waves reach into unlikely corners, and the decline and fall of Boris A. Berezovsky, onetime oligarch and focal point of exiled opposition to the ... Read more
Russia Tries to Prosecute the Dead Lawyer Magnitsky
MOSCOW — Russia took the unusual step of attempting to put a dead man on trial Monday, when it tried to open posthumous proceedings against Sergei L. Magnitsky, the whistle-blowing lawyer who died three ... Read more