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  • How Bad Can It Be for SEC Whistle-Blowers?

    George Canellos, 48, has one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top jobs. The SEC’s new chairman, Mary Jo White, appointed him as co-director of the enforcement division, along with Andrew Ceresney, a former partner of White’s at Debevoise & Plimpton. Their job is to oversee 1,200 investigators, accountants and lawyers who try to root out corruption on Wall Street. Canellos should be above reproach.

  • TIAA-CREF Hires Leary to Oversee $505 Billion Portfolio

    TIAA-CREF, the provider of retirement accounts for teachers and non-profit organizations, named Robert Leary as president of the asset-management business that has been expanding by overseeing funds for institutional investors.

  • Peter Madoff Admits Aiding Brother’s Ponzi Scheme

    Peter Madoff pleaded guilty to enabling his brother Bernard Madoff to pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history -- though Peter denied knowing the business was a sham until the firm collapsed.

  • Joke-Cracking New Yorker on Papal List Draws Twitter Fans

    Whenever he’s asked about becoming the first American pope in the millennia-long history of the Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Timothy Dolan cracks a joke.

  • Mets Executive Dave Howard Is Hired as President of MSG Sports

    Madison Square Garden Co. has hired Dave Howard as president of MSG Sports, putting the longtime New York Mets’ executive in charge of the business operations of basketball’s Knicks and hockey’s Rangers.

  • China Corporate Espionage Boom Knocks Wind Out of U.S. Companies

    Last June, three men squeezed inside a wind turbine in China’s Gobi Desert. They were employees of American Superconductor Corp., a maker of computer systems that serve as the electronic brains of the device. From time to time, AMSC workers are required to head out to a wind farm in some desolate location -- that’s where the wind usually is -- to check on the equipment, do maintenance, make repairs, and keep the customers happy.

  • Fat-Cat Pay Makes Swiss So Mad Wages Face National Vote

    Swiss company chief executive officers, including Roche Holding AG’s Severin Schwan and Nestle SA’s Paul Bulcke, earn some of the world’s highest salaries. That may soon change.

  • ESPN Accused in Dish Case of Giving Comcast Better Terms

    Dish Network Corp. is seeking $152 million from Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN for allegedly breaching a contract by offering competitors including Comcast Corp. better licensing terms for sports programming.

  • Veritas Capital Chairman McKeon Takes Own Life at Age 58

    Robert McKeon, the founder of private-equity firm Veritas Capital and a former chairman of Wasserstein Perella Management Partners, died Sept. 10 at his home in Darien, Connecticut. The cause of death was suicide, according to the office of Connecticut’s chief medical examiner.

  • Fordham Player Shares Country, Court With Radwanska

    Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Kuba Kowalski, the top men’s singles tennis player at Fordham University, talks about his relationship with Polish tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska, the No. 2 seed at the U.S. Open. Kowalski spoke to Bloomberg’s Eben Novy-Williams at the U.S. Open in New York, prior to Radwanska's loss to 20th seed Roberta Vinci. (Source: Bloomberg)

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