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Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act

Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act

The Wall Street Journal — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is taking action to weed out scam artists who advertise on its platform aiming to defraud customers seeking technical support online. The move comes after a Wall Street Journal investigation found fraudsters were exploiting Google's advertising system by purchasing search ads and masquerading as authorized service agents for companies such as Apple Inc.
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Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Reveals Link to Qatari Royal Family

Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Reveals Link to Qatari Royal Family

The Wall Street Journal — A $100,000 real-estate brokerage fee that was part of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's guilty plea Tuesday came from representing a company owned by a member of the Qatar royal family, according to interviews and real-estate documents. Mr. Cohen admitted to failing to pay taxes on more than $4 million in income, among other felonies.
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Russian Trolls Weigh In on Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump Jr.

Russian Trolls Weigh In on Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump Jr.

The Wall Street Journal — With U.S. midterm elections approaching, Russian trolls found ways to remain active on Twitter well into 2018, trying to rile up the American electorate with tweets on everything from Roseanne Barr's firing to Donald Trump Jr.'s divorce, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.
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Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton From Assange, Emails Show

Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton From Assange, Emails Show

The Wall Street Journal — Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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Fidelity Employees Fired After Alleged Misuse of Reimbursement Programs

Fidelity Employees Fired After Alleged Misuse of Reimbursement Programs

The Wall Street Journal — Fidelity Investments has fired or allowed more than 200 employees to resign over alleged misuse of workplace-benefits programs, according to people familiar with the matter. Behind the layoffs and resignations was a company audit of computer-buying and physical-fitness benefit programs over the last year.
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Social-Media Firms Aren't Telling All They Know About Russian Interference

Social-Media Firms Aren't Telling All They Know About Russian Interference

The Wall Street Journal — Major U.S. tech companies have yet to provide to the public all the details of Russian troll activity on their platforms despite their pledge to tackle the problem and pressure from some lawmakers, The Wall Street Journal has found. Six months after social-media firms agreed in congressional hearings to work with lawmakers investigating Russian efforts to interfere in U.S.
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Trolls Take Over Some Official U.S. Twitter Accounts

Trolls Take Over Some Official U.S. Twitter Accounts

The Wall Street Journal — Sometime in the past few years, the official Twitter account for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Atlas program began doing something unusual: It started posting politically charged messages. In Russian. "It's time for the West to cancel sanctions and stop demonizing Russia," the account wrote on Feb. 26, 2017, using Cyrillic script.
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Roger Stone's Claim of a 2016 Julian Assange Meeting Draws Scrutiny

Roger Stone's Claim of a 2016 Julian Assange Meeting Draws Scrutiny

The Wall Street Journal — The special counsel investigating alleged links between Trump campaign associates and Russians is looking into longtime adviser Roger Stone's 2016 claim that he had met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a person familiar with the matter. WikiLeaks, an antisecrecy website, later released a trove of material on Democratic candidate Hillary Clintonthat U.S.
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Russian Trolls Tried to Torpedo Mitt Romney's Shot at Secretary of State

Russian Trolls Tried to Torpedo Mitt Romney's Shot at Secretary of State

The Wall Street Journal — Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online "trolls" flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney from securing a top job in the incoming administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows.
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Russian Influence Campaign Extracted Americans' Personal Data

Russian Influence Campaign Extracted Americans' Personal Data

The Wall Street Journal — All the Facebook account Black4Black asked for was some personal information about Ajah Hales and other Cleveland-area small-business owners. In exchange, she was told her cosmetics company, and her fellow African-American entrepreneurs, would receive free promotion on social media and in a new and influential directory of black-owned businesses.
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Russian Trolls Tweeted Disinformation Long Before U.S. Election

Russian Trolls Tweeted Disinformation Long Before U.S. Election

The Wall Street Journal — An analysis of 221,641 tweets shows Russian trolls tried to incite chaos, fear and outrage about fake events before their election activity, as if they were testing to see how much they could get Americans to believe.
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Hundreds of Police Killings Are Uncounted in Federal Stats

Hundreds of Police Killings Are Uncounted in Federal Stats

Wall Street Journal — WASHINGTON-When 24-year-old Albert Jermaine Payton wielded a knife in front of the police in this city's southeast corner, officers opened fire and killed him. Yet according to national statistics intended to track police killings, Mr. Payton's death in August 2012 never happened. It is one of hundreds of homicides by law-enforcement agencies between 2007 and 2012 that aren't included in records kept by the Federal Bureau of...
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How Troubled Brokers Cluster, Often Among Elderly Investors

How Troubled Brokers Cluster, Often Among Elderly Investors

Wall Street Journal — DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-At Burt & Max's Bar and Grille one day this summer, stockbroker Rafael Golan gave a group of elderly people a financial seminar. After his hourlong talk on topics from real estate to annuities, the free food arrived. Dinners like this have landed him clients before. Some later lodged complaints against him, making him part of a cluster of brokers with troubled regulatory records that a Wall Street Journal...
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Analysis: Foreign Airline Crews Had Difficulties With San Francisco Landings

Analysis: Foreign Airline Crews Had Difficulties With San Francisco Landings

Wall Street Journal — Foreign airline crews experienced problems approaching San Francisco International Airport at a greater rate than U.S. pilots when the airport's landing guidance system was impaired, a Wall Street Journal analysis of government data found. The findings, based on nearly 100,000 flights coming into the busy hub over six months, come as federal investigators held their first public hearing Wednesday on the crash last summer of an Asiana...
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Stockbrokers Fail to Disclose Red Flags

Stockbrokers Fail to Disclose Red Flags

Wall Street Journal — In less than two years, stockbroker Marcos D. Leiva racked up a personal bankruptcy, a tax lien, a court judgment for unpaid debt and a criminal guilty plea relating to a false report to law enforcement. Each should have been promptly disclosed to investors. None was. Mr. Leiva is one of more than 1,600 stockbrokers whose records failed...
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Activist Investors Often Leak Their Plans to a Favored Few

Activist Investors Often Leak Their Plans to a Favored Few

Wall Street Journal — Shares of Rino International Corp. sank 28% in the two days after investment firm Muddy Waters LLC put out a report attacking the Chinese company's accounting. Three investment firms were ready for the news. The firms had been tipped beforehand by Muddy Waters about the scathing November 2010 report, according to a person close to the...
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Executives Hit Sweet Spot on Stock Sales

Executives Hit Sweet Spot on Stock Sales

Wall Street Journal — When George Weinert, then chief executive of Novatel Wireless Inc., found out one of the company's largest customers planned to cancel scheduled orders, he warned managers in an email that losing the sales "would have a major impact on our business." His email, written in January 2007, has surfaced in a lawsuit because of what happened next. Novatel didn't inform shareholders about the bad news. In a news release that May, the San Diego-based maker of telecommunications equipment said its quarterly earnings would...
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Taxpayers Face Big Medicare Tab for Unusual Doctor Billings

Taxpayers Face Big Medicare Tab for Unusual Doctor Billings

Wall Street Journal — Ronald S. Weaver isn't a cardiologist. Yet 98% of the $2.3 million that the Los Angeles doctor's practice received from Medicare in 2012 was for a cardiac procedure, according to recently released government data. The procedure is rarely used by the nation's heart doctors. Patients are strapped to a bed with three large cuffs that inflate and deflate rhythmically to increase blood flow through the arteries-a last resort to treat...
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Stockbrokers Who Fail Test Have Checkered Records

Stockbrokers Who Fail Test Have Checkered Records

Wall Street Journal — More than 51,500 stockbrokers failed a basic exam needed to sell securities at least once, according to data that Wall Street regulators don't disclose to investors, and those who repeatedly failed have on average worse disciplinary records. The more times a broker failed, the higher the average total of black marks was, such as criminal charges and firings, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the data found. Those who failed the test more than twice, for example, were 77% more likely to report a felony or...
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More Than 5,000 Stockbrokers From Expelled Firms Still Selling Securities

More Than 5,000 Stockbrokers From Expelled Firms Still Selling Securities

Wall Street Journal — More than 5,000 brokers were still licensed to sell securities earlier this year after working for one or more firms that regulators expelled between 2005 and 2012, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.
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Corporate Insiders Shift From 'Buy' to 'Sell' as Bankruptcy Nears

Corporate Insiders Shift From 'Buy' to 'Sell' as Bankruptcy Nears

Wall Street Journal — WSJ Analysis: A review of stock trades by corporate insiders before their companies filed for bankruptcy found the trading veering heavily toward selling instead of buying.
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Directors Take Shelter in Trading Plans

Directors Take Shelter in Trading Plans

Wall Street Journal — Nonexecutive directors' use of so-called 10b5-1 trading plans, which lay out future stock trades at set prices or on set dates, has jumped 55% since 2008, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.
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As Asbestos Claims Rise, So Do Worries About Fraud

As Asbestos Claims Rise, So Do Worries About Fraud

Wall Street Journal — A Wall Street Journal investigation into asbestos trust claims and court cases of roughly 850,000 people filed since the late 1980s found many apparent anomalies. First in a series.
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Executives' Good Luck in Trading Own Stock

Executives' Good Luck in Trading Own Stock

Wall Street Journal — An exclusive WSJ examination of executives who traded their own company's stock just before their companies made news finds that far more recorded notable gains than saw the stock move against them.
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