Watchdog: Treasury, Fed share fault in AIG oversight
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner bears ultimate responsibility for regulators failing to rein in AIG bonus payments, Barofsky says, noting Geithner led the agencies that provided lifelines. He learned of the bonuses in March. NY Fed staff knew in November. Barofsky criticizes outsourcing oversight to the Fed and calls for tighter recovery of taxpayer money.
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Treasury
Timothy Geithner
American International Group
AIG
Geithner
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New York Fed
Neil Barofsky
Barofsky
House Committee On Oversight and
Obama
Fed
Insurance and
Henry Paulson
Rep
Darrell Issa
California
Officials Link Accused New York Bomb Plot to Al Qaida Leader
U S intelligence officials tell The Associated Press that the airport shuttle driver Nasib? Najibullah Zazi plotted a mass transit bombing with contacts stretching to an al Qaida core leader in Afghanistan. The case centers on a mediator linked to Osama bin Laden’s network and a doomsday training trip to Pakistan.
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al- Qaida
Osama bin Laden
Afghanistan
U.S
Associated Press
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid
Najibullah Zazi
al- Yazid
Zazi
Al-Yazid
al-Qaida
Daniel Bynum
Brookings Institution
Saban Center
bin Laden
John Brennan
Barack Obama
Washington
Pakistan
Missouri towns push prescription-only drugs to curb meth
Union becomes the second U S town to require prescriptions for pseudoephedrine containing meds amid rising meth production in Missouri. Washington and Union near St. Louis face critics from medical and retailers as residents warn of access hardships. Drain on labs, dump sites, and seizures place Missouri atop meth incident counts nationwide.
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Marilyn Roark
Bob Barton Jr
Barton
U.S
Washington
Mike Livengood
Missouri Medical Association
Missouri Retailers Association
Missouri Pharmacy Association
John Wittrock
St. Louis
Drug Enforcement Administration
Missouri
Indiana
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