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1. The Audit

   Audit Notes: SEC and Stanford, Goldman and Wells, Murdoch’s Personal Feuds

   April 19, 2010 08:33 PM

   You've got to love this SEC investigation. I mean, of the SEC, not by it. Talking Points Memo revisits an insector general's report out a few days ago and zeroes in on the news here: that Spencer Barasch,... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Springtime for Investigations as the SEC Acts

   April 19, 2010 03:18 PM

   It looks from the newspapers this morning like the dam has finally broken on prosecuting the crisis scandals. The New York Times does its best to put the Goldman scandal in the C-suite, splashing the lede story across two... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Goldman, Goldman, Goldman (What Else?)

   April 16, 2010 05:30 PM

   Marian Wang of ProPublica has a sharp follow-up to the blockbuster news that the SEC is charging Goldman Sachs with fraud: Other Major Banks Did Deals Similar to Goldman’s Yep, and ProPublica has lots of string on this... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Angelides, The Audit, and Unfair Lending

   April 16, 2010 04:40 PM

   Comptroller of The Audit Dean Starkman spent three months last year poring over nearly a decade of financial-press archives to put together "Power Problem," a CJR cover story that examined coverage in the years leading up to the crisis.... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Are a Business-Press Win

   April 16, 2010 12:13 PM

   The New York Times's Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson score a major scoop this morning with news that the SEC is charging Goldman Sachs with fraud over its structuring of CDOs, saying "the bank created and sold a mortgage... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   Audit Notes: First FOIA Bank Run?, Demand a Second Opinion, Doctor

   April 15, 2010 06:58 PM

   The big banks are continuing to fight Bloomberg's Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Fed, which would force it to reveal what toxic assets of theirs it's taken on in as part of a $2 trillion bailout. They say... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple

   April 15, 2010 05:21 PM

   The Nieman Journalism Lab's Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees Apple's iPad as part of its future. McGann talked to Mark Fiore, who won a Pulitzer this week for... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Missing the Mortgage-Mod Story

   April 15, 2010 11:23 AM

   Still think The Huffington Post is just an aggregator of lefty opinion and tabloid fluff? Okay, it's still that, but it's doing real journalism, too. You ought to check out HuffPost reporter Shahien Nasiripour, who has been doing lots of... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Say What, CME?; Magnetar Wrong; A Monster, All Right

   April 14, 2010 06:10 PM

   Felix Salmon examines the newly released unredacted version of the Valukas Report and finds what he calls a scandal in the CME's auction of bankrupt Lehman's assets. Salmon points out that Goldman got the best deal and pulls this... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Chittum, CJR Tweet Fleet Caught Napping

    April 14, 2010 09:51 AM

    New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia and TalkingBizNews's Chris Roush take me to the woodshed this morning for an errant tweet yesterday: In the past 24-plus hours there has been a lot of hand wringing about the lack... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Lehman Inquiries Spike, Salmon on Blogging, Derivatives

    April 13, 2010 06:37 PM

    Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business News reports that investigators are now zooming in on three areas of Lehman's accounting, including Repo 105: In addition to the firm’s use or possible misuse of Repo 105, investigators are examining whether... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    Krugman Throws Stone at Sorkin from His Glass House

    April 13, 2010 03:15 PM

    It's New York Times columnist vs. New York Times columnist. Paul Krugman hammers his colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin for getting Krugman's stance on bank nationalization wrong, saying "Andrew Ross Sorkin Owes Several People An Apology." Here's what Sorkin... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    More Shades of Enron in NYT’s Lehman Scoop

    April 13, 2010 09:38 AM

    Lehman Brothers is smelling an awful lot like Enron these days. The New York Times splashes a scoop by Louise Story and Eric Dash across two page-one columns revealing how Lehman Brothers used an outside company it controlled... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Median American Family, Bank Hole, A Wolff in Wolf’s Clothing

    April 12, 2010 06:34 PM

    Listen up, business press: Zero Hedge runs a great guest post by Graham Summers looking at why Average Joe and Jane America are constantly battling to keep their heads above water. It's intentionally over-simplified but still insightful. Summers looks... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    Old-Fashioned WSJ Leder Spotted in the Wild

    April 12, 2010 01:04 PM

    The Wall Street Journal goes back to its roots with an excellent old-fashioned leder this morning. It's a well-told tale about 74-year-old Suzy Tomlinson, who died after being last seen with a 36-year-old guy named JB Carlson who'd taken... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    ProPublica Humdinger on a Diabolical CDO Scheme

    April 9, 2010 06:51 PM

    Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica have a fantastic investigation out today of Magnetar, a short-selling hedge fund that inflated the bubble by getting toxic CDOs created and betting against them. Not only did it help create the... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    WSJ Story Shows Repo 105 Was Just the Beginning

    April 9, 2010 10:27 AM

    This is what you call a great piece of enterprise reporting. The Wall Street Journal this morning has a major story that shows Wall Street banks have been hiding their true debt levels from investors—and everybody else. This raises... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    Audit Notes: FHLB Bomb, Subprime Fraud, Gannett Is Cheap

    April 8, 2010 06:16 PM

    Bloomberg's Jon Weil has the Lede of the Day, writing about a "trillion-dollar time bomb": The Federal Home Loan Banks are a frequently overlooked band of government-chartered cooperatives whose name screams systemic risk with every word. Federal means Uncle... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Fortune FAIL: One-Source Story on Credit-Card Reform

    April 8, 2010 02:31 PM

    Ah, the one-source story. Nasty habit of Bloomberg and the Financial Times—and now Fortune. The magazine interviews Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney, who warned early about Wall Street's looming disaster, and who's now getting into the contrarian... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Waxman Whacks Wolff, Salon Whacks Wolff, Brooks Just Wack

    April 7, 2010 08:43 PM

    Finally, somebody gets up the nerve to slap a cease-and-desist on Michael Wolff's parasitic Newser. Sharon Waxman and he have been in a nasty dustup for the past week, and her The Wrap sent Newser a letter saying this:... Continue reading

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