Leadership Upper Valley: Program Inspires Conversations About Region’s Addiction Problem
Long touted as a great place to live, the Upper Valley, like many New England communities, continues to struggle with what experts unanimously agree is an epidemic of logic-defying proportions: heroin addiction. However, unlike the last major epidemic of 50 years ago, today’s addicts aren’t inner-city junkies. Rather, they are all of us: moms and dads, friends and neighbors, teenagers and young adults from loving families and small,...
Corporate Prosecutions Eased
Washington — Despite the many challenges in bringing such cases, the Justice Department is renewing its commitment to prosecuting corporate executives for financial misdeeds, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said Thursday. In a warning shot to Wall Street, Yates unveiled new policies to guide federal prosecutors in bringing more criminal cases against individuals even as she acknowledged that the Justice Department has, at times,...
Five Banks Admit Guilt, To Pay Fine
Washington — They called themselves the Cartel, and that turned out to be an appropriate name. Traders and sales agents used electronic chat rooms, prosecutors said, to conspire to manipulate prices in the $5 trillion-a-day foreign currency markets. They secretly marked up transaction costs, telling customers they hadn’t. “If you ain’t cheating,” said one trader at British bank Barclays Plc, “you ain’t trying.” The Justice Department,...
Comcast to Drop Mega-Merger
Washington — Comcast is planning to drop its $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable, after Washington regulators raised concerns that the combined giant would hold too much sway over the rapidly evolving television and entertainment industries, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision caps a spectacular collapse for one of the biggest deals ever to come before federal officials. The merger would have combined the...
