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Purpose. word is being used as a sort of catchall term. hes only technically right when he saying its not criminal. legal experts say under u.s. code collusion is federal crime only applicable under antitrust law. that is a collaborative agreement usually secret among roo rivals. basically its price fixing and bid rigging. but what is a crime is conspiracy. under the federal conspiracy statute a crime is committed when two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the united ...

Going after both democrats and republicans. until todays firing, he was in the middle of investigations involving the offices of the two most powerful democrats in the state of new york. he was set to try former aides to governor andrew cuomo, who are accused of bribery and bid rigging and in the final of investigations of new york city mayor bill de blasio looking at allegations of pay to play. he headed the southern new york district where trump tower is. so any federal investigation that may ...

And he was greatly feared on wall street. he prosecuted dodss of insider trading and securities fraud cases, including bernie madoffs brother. he was appointed by a democratic president, but was well known for his nonpartisan investigations going after both dems and republicans. in until todays firing he was in the middle of investigations involving offices of two of the most powerful democrats in the state of new york. he was set to try former aides to governor andrew cuomo. who are accused of ...

Department of justice. what could be just the first of many raids across the country took place this week in memphis at an unlikely location, goodwill industries, a multimillion dollar subcontractor with the federal program taking in millions of dollars supposely to hire the severely disabled. raiding offices of goodwill trying to find evidence that theyre not. at stake $3.2 billion in tax money doled out by ability within which sources tell cnn is allege to be involved in a nationwide corruptio...

Complicated to do, especially on television. if you want to say -- try to describe what municipal bond bid rigging is on tv, its going to take three or four minutes to do and a lot of television reporters just sort of give up at the start. and the complexity of these cases in general precludes any kind of treatment except for the long form kind of treatment that i was very, very lucky be able to do at "rolling stone" magazine. >> even for daily newspapers, you think its over their heads, so to s...

It has not importanted well on previous government contracts. another mess, martha. thats where we are. martha: as you point out, there have been a lost ethics issues. allegations of kickbacks. allegations of bid rigging. they paid $63 million to settle those claims. it boggles the mind, stuart, we live in a country that has some of the greatest technological companies in the world. the fact they couldnt find a company perhaps had a better record to take over this job i think it is a real head-s...

To run out the clock, so to speak? >> i dont think he is necessarily playing it safe. he wants to answer questions about his criminal defense fund. e-mail showing possible bid rigging. he is laying low for reasons because he doesnt want to answer who is paying for his criminal defense fund and whether or not he is the target of his investigation. lay low skpp dont answer questions. >> when you talk about and look at the money walker the governor has spent by three to one margin. how confident ar...

Responsible. so we endorsed all of this bad s like bank of america justin in these sorts of behaviors. you know, not only are they involved with these fraudulent sales of mortgage backed securities, but theyre also involved with things like municipal bid rigging and there is all these different activities that these banks are involved with. and, yet, we still support them year after year. >> and i want to look at a couple points from this article specifically. you say that the bank of america is...