Richard Hanzel, Brendan Hutt, Richard Shavzin
Profit Over People

Wall Street Admits Curing Diseases is Bad for Business

Goldman Sachs has outdone itself this time. According to Goldman Sachs, curing people of terrible diseases is not good for Wall Street.

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New York City Pays Out Over $300k In Settlements From Occupy Protests Pepper Spray Incident

Some other Occupy-related lawsuits also continue, including cases involving police use of pepper spray.

New York City Pays Out Over $300k In Settlements From Occupy Protests Pepper Spray Incident

Watch: NYPD officer Anthony Balogna pepper spraying already detained Occupy Wall Street protesters.

  NEW YORK  — The city has agreed to pay a total of $332,500 to six Occupy Wall Street protesters who said police unjustly blasted them with pepper spray in an episode that helped

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Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It

MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes.

WASHINGTON --- Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the

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Sean Nevins

Sean Nevins is a Washington DC based staff writer for MintPress focusing on foreign affairs, and the intersection of politics and policy. His work has appeared on Link TV, Inter Press Service, and The Real News Network. He has lived and reported from all over the world and holds a Master’s in Asian Studies (focus: Pakistan) from Lund University in Sweden.

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Remorseful Jurors Plea To Judge: No Prison Time For OWS Activist

Jurors express shock and regret upon learning guilty verdict could land Cecily McMillan in prison for 7 years.

Remorseful Jurors Plea To Judge: No Prison Time For OWS Activist

A majority of the jury that found Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan guilty of "felony assault" of the very police officer who she says sexually assaulted and brutalized her appears to be remorseful that the 25-year-old could spend up to seven years behind bars. Nine of the 12 people who served on the jury have penned a letter to Judge

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OWS Activist Found Guilty Of ‘Assaulting’ Cop Who Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Her

Cecily McMillan, who faces up to seven years in prison, was immediately handcuffed and ‘whisked away.’

Cecily McMillan—the 25-year-old Occupy Wall Street organizer who was allegedly sexually assaulted and brutalized by a police officer at Zuccotti Park, is facing up to seven years in prison after—in what her supporters say is a cruel twist—she was convicted Monday afternoon of "felony assault" of the very police officer she says is her

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World’s Financial Elite Get Lofty On ‘Inequality,’ But Critics Unimpressed

‘We need much bigger changes … not just speaking out against inequality and not just speaking out against contradictory policies, but actually making those policy changes’

In reference to last week's "Spring Meetings" between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, critics are calling on the two financial giants to put their money where their mouths are and initiate policies that fight growing global inequality, rather than create it. In

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Civil Liberties On Trial In Occupy Wall St. Case

The last trial of Occupy Wall Street protesters opened on Monday, testing the country’s commitment to protecting civil liberties.

Civil Liberties On Trial In Occupy Wall St. Case

In New York City, a major test of the nation’s commitment to civil liberties is playing out as Cecily McMillan, 25, a New School student, faces felony charges in a trial that started on Monday. McMillan, the last of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to face trial, is

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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