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I write the Corruption Currents blog, which is hosted on the Wall Street Journal's website.
I'm 25 and I live in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
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I write the Corruption Currents blog, which is hosted on the Wall Street Journal's website.
I'm 25 and I live in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
Samuel Rubenfeld's Tumblr
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Journalist Arrested In News Corp. Bribery Probe - Corruption Currents - WSJ
A 37-year-old woman was arrested Friday in the probe into corrupt payments made to public officials by employees of the News Corp. U.K. newspaper unit.
The woman, who was not named by police, was detained at 9 a.m. local time. She was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt, suspicion of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office and suspicion of bribery under the U.K. Bribery Act, police said.
A BBC reportidentified her as a current employee of News International, the U.K. tabloid arm of News Corp.
“To the coaches, who are locked into the task of getting the team ready for the season, Tebow’s Tebowness is already irrelevant. Sparano has an urgent and difficult job to do, and Tebow’s just another guy on the team. It might seem like the Jets have a lot invested in him, but really, their investment amounts to Philip Blake. Have you heard of Philip Blake? Neither had I, until I discovered that he was the 108th pick in this year’s draft, which the Jets sent to Denver to acquire Tebow.”
— Breaking: Mark Sanchez is still a better quarterback than Tim Tebow | Capital New York
Vatican Bank Chief Ousted In Vote After Money-Laundering Scandal - Corruption Currents - WSJ
The board of the Vatican bank voted on Thursday to sack its chairman, saying he had failed to fulfill his duties.
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, an economist who has been the bank’s chairman since 2009, oversaw the institution, called the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, during a time of scandal.
The no-confidence vote was taken because Gotti Tedeschi “failed to fulfill various functions of primary importance to his office,” a statement said.
He was placed under investigation in September 2010 by Italian authorities as part of a probe into whether the bank violated Italy’s laws against money laundering. The Vatican and Gotti Tedeschi, who hasn’t been charged, denied any wrongdoing.
Fiat Slams Brake On Sales To Iran - Corruption Currents - WSJ
Italian automaker Fiat SpA and its sister company Fiat Industrial SpA said Friday they would stop doing business in Iran in line with a trade embargo imposed by the West.
“Fiat announces that effective immediately its subsidiaries will no longer carry out business activity related to products or components where the ultimate destination of such products is known to be Iran, other than to the limited extent required to fulfill already existing binding obligations,” the company said in a statement (pdf).
The Turin-based car company said in the statement that sales by Fiat’s subsidiaries were “totally immaterial in a quantitative and qualitative sense” and that the products it sold were solely for commercial and civilian use.
Fiat exports cars to Iran while Fiat Industrial exports buses and trucks under its Iveco brand.
If anything is front-page news, it’s that your newspaper is going to stop printing every day. Here’s how The Times-Picayune and three other Advance Publications (and one outsider) told their readers Friday morning about the changes.
The Times Picayune crew at Molly’s, celebrating the paper’s life rather than mourning its death.
