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Feds Reassign Heads of Troubled Caregivers Database
ProPublica recently reported that a national database on dangerous health professionals was likely missing thousands of disciplinary cases. Now the management team overseeing the database has been removed.
Follow up: The Faux Census Surveys You Received
We recently wrote about a fake "Census" survey that was really a Republican National Committee fundraising mailing. Since then we've been pointed to other official-sounding surveys that are actually fundraising requests.
Rangel Denies Breaking Rules on Caribbean Trips, but Here Are the Questions He Still Faces
Rep. Charles Rangel says he didn’t break House ethics rules when he took Caribbean trips, despite the ethics committee’s ruling, but he still faces many other allegations of ethical or financial misconduct.
And The World’s Longest Trial Mod Is...
Under the government’s foreclosure prevention program, trial periods for mortgage modifications are supposed to last only three months. But some homeowners have waited nearly 10 months to learn whether they will get permanent modifications.
Chase and Other Servicers Leave Many in Loan Mod Limbo; Treasury Threatens Penalties
Some 97,000 homeowners have been stuck in trial mortgage modifications for longer than six months -- nearly two-thirds of them with JPMorgan Chase. But the Treasury Department says its lenience with the loan servicers is about to end.
