IRS may draft cops to catch tax cheats, official tells Senate
By Jim Kouri Sunday, March 25, 2012
While the Obama Administration curtailed its involvement with local police agencies to enforce immigration law and capture criminal aliens, that same administration wishes local cops to help the Internal Revenue Service enforcement tax laws, according to testimony given before a panel of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.
From electronic to paper: Fraud can happen anywhereBy Guest Column Wednesday, March 14, 2012
OTTAWA, - March is Fraud Prevention Month and Canada Post wants to remind customers that fraud, identity theft and other types of scams can happen anywhere - in your mailbox or recycle bin, via email, on the telephone, and more. Fraud-related offences are now thought to be as profitable as drug-related offences, estimated at between $10 and $30 billion annually in Canada by the RCMP’s Commercial Crime Branch.
Holder, Democrats blast NYPD’s spying on Muslims in New JerseyBy Jim Kouri Sunday, March 11, 2012
This week, Attorney General Eric Holder told U.S. senators that he was disturbed by what he’s read about the New York Police Department conducting undercover and surveillance operations targeting mosques and Islamic student organizations in New Jersey.
U.S. to probe cross-border money laundering with MexicoBy Jim Kouri Saturday, March 10, 2012
During his meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Mexico City on Monday, President Felipe Calderon told Biden that the only way to win Mexico’s “war with the drug cartels” combat organized crime gangs as well as arms trafficking along the border. He also included in his list of priorities the ceasing of rampant cross-border money laundering, according to a press statement.
Real jeopardy
By Sarge Thursday, March 8, 2012
Question: Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler? (Insert music from Jeopardy ©.)
Answer: Who are these men and what did they do? They were the weekly hosts of a nature/animal oriented television show sponsored by an insurance company. It was the manner in which Marlin Perkins (Director Emeritus of the St. Louis Zoo) and Fowler highlighted the lives of various animal species captured on film in their natural habitat made them competitive with Disney’s “pocket documentaries” (90 minute or less durations).
By Jim Kouri Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Drug-gang violence poses a security threat to Central American nations with violence increasing at an alarming rate, according to the United Nations narcotics group’s report released this week.
DC Deputy Mayor:Dear Victims of Crime;Better to be Beaten,Raped,Stolen From Than to Protect YourselfBy Warner Todd Huston Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Washington D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice wants you all to just stop whining about the rising crime in his fair city. He wants you to continue being a victim and like it. Not only that, but he thinks it’s a good thing that you should become a victim. Better that than protecting yourself, don’t you know?
Insurance Crimes Cost Canadians Several Billion AnnuallyBy Guest Column Wednesday, February 29, 2012
TORONTO, - Whether it’s a staged collision, arson or an exaggerated claim, insurance fraud comes in many forms, but fraud in any form costs all Canadians. March is Fraud Prevention Month, and Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is cracking down on insurance fraud and educating Canadians on how to protect themselves against this type of crime.
Protect Your Kids from Identity Thieves
By Guest Column Monday, February 20, 2012
We’ve all been warned about the need to protect our personal information from identity theft, but in a disturbing new trend, children have increasingly become targets. Identity thieves now harvest children’s dormant Social Security numbers and using them for illegal acts that can ruin a child’s credit before he or she even turns 18. In this Practical Money Matters piece, Ms. Cassar shares some of the warning signs your child’s personal information may have been compromised and what you can do to halt the activity.
U.S. bound cargo remains vulnerable to terrorists, WMDBy Jim Kouri Monday, February 13, 2012
It’s been more than a decade since Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S., yet the agency created to protect the nation from another strike is asleep at the wheel, failing to adequately screen the monstrous amounts of cargo that enter the country each day, according to a government report issued this week.
Canadian security allowed use of intel gained through tortureBy Jim Kouri Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Canada’s intelligence officers were given the green light to use intelligence gained through aggressive interrogation techniques—described by some as torture—in cases that impact upon the safety and security of the Canadian people, according to a breaking story by the Canadian Press Tuesday evening.
U.S. intelligence chief warns of cyber “Cold War”By Jim Kouri Saturday, February 4, 2012
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate should pass legislation to increase cyber security—in both public and private sectors—since the country is involved in a “type of cyber Cold War,” stated the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday during a congressional presentation.
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