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Download MP3 WorldCom Declares Bankruptcy  (4:15) In December, Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection, setting the record for the biggest bankruptcy in US history. Now, as the recent wave of corporate scandals continues, WorldCom filed...

Download Audio Interview with Hamas Leader  (6:27) This morning Israeli officials announced they are considering deporting relatives of Palestinians believed to have committed terrorist acts. Earlier this week Israeli soldiers arrested sixteen relatives of two...

Download MP3 Former Enron Exec Not Thoroughly Investigated?  (3:42) President Bush’s Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White defended himself in a Congressional subcommittee today.   Among other things, White’s accused of helping Enron steal...

Download MP3 Retrial in Louima Torture Case  (4:16) After six days of deliberation, a jury in the retrial of the Abner Louima torture case found former New York police officer Charles Schwarz guilty of perjury...

Download MP3 Bush Plan for Homeland Security Targets Immigrants  (3:05) President George Bush laid out his plan to beef up homeland security today. The objectives of the new plan include preventing domestic terrorist attacks, reducing...

Download MP3 CEO’s the Winners in Corporate Crime Scandals High-level corporate crime continues to be exposed. Newsweek today published an extensive interview with current Halliburton CEO David Lessar on the vice president’s role in...

Download MP3 Political Crisis in Turkey  (1:45) The Associated Press is reporting that Turkey’s former foreign minister today launched a new political party to topple the Prime Minister, who is fighting to stay in power...

Download MP3 Corporate Crime Reform?  (4:56) As the White House works to stop the bleeding from corporate crime scandals on Wall street, allegations surface daily that the administration itself has benefited from accounting fraud and...

Download MP3 Police Brutality Case in LA  (2:53) There is outrage in communities of color around the country as yet another white police officer in the Los Angeles town of Inglewood was caught by a...

Download Audio Bush Addresses Corporate Crime on Wall Street (5:54) Enron it seemed was just the beginning. With mounting corporate scandals, President Bush today visited the home of US capitalism, Wall Street, where he...