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FairPoint Communications finance chief resigns (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The finance chief of FairPoint Communications Inc. is resigning to join Financial Markets International, a law and economics consulting firm, the telecom said Thursday.

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July 23, 2008

Kuantan couple face 189 charges of money laundering (The Star)

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Kuantan couple face 189 charges of money laundering (The Star)
KUANTAN: A company director and his wife have been slapped with 189 charges of money laundering involving close to RM170mil in three Sessions Courts here.

Bush raises money for GOP House challenger (AP via Yahoo! News)
President Bush is hoping that this will be the year his party ousts Democratic Rep. Jim Marshall from Congress and he came to Georgia on Tuesday to pump money into the campaign of Marshall’s challenger.

Colombian clubs suspected of money laundering (Sports Illustrated)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A senior Colombian finance ministry official has given prosecutors a report detailing "highly suspicious" activity by the country’s professional football clubs that he said could be linked to money laundering.

Money-Saving Tech Solutions (ABC News)
Save money on travel and even get money for your used cell phone.

Janet Street-Porter: ‘Healers’ on the run with your money (Independent)
The Government has rightly decided that doctors in the UK must face annual tests to determine their competence, and reapply to renew their licences every five years, something which anxious patients pressed for in the wake of the Harold Shipman case. No such controls apply to the lucrative alternative therapy business, where practitioners extract money from the gullible by offering treatments …

Making the Most of Money Market Accounts (AllBusiness via Yahoo! Finance)
In the early 1980s money market accounts became a popular new competitive feature of the banking industry. They were a safe managed investment vehicle. Money market accounts invested in short-term cash instruments and could provide both interest and check-writing privileges.

Firm with licence to print Mugabe’s money (Independent)
The Mugabe regime’s final lifeline is a small Vienna-based software company that helps it to keep printing the money it relies on for its survival, The Independent can reveal.

Money-Market Mutual Fund Assets Rise By $6.11 Billion (Nasdaq)
NEW YORK — Investors to money-market funds contributed $6.11 billion in the week ended Tuesday, bringing total net assets to $3.474 trillion, according to the Money Fund Report, published by iMoneyNet Inc.

3 Americans plead guilty in money laundering scheme (USA Today)
Three Americans who ran an Internet money-transmitting company in the Caribbean have pleaded guilty to money laundering and other charges, U.S. Justice Department officials said Monday.

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