WIKILEAKS

Banks Face a Tough Legal Fight With Wikileaks

If Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange is to be believed, then an impending document dump from his organization will significantly cripple a major U.S. bank

In a late-November Forbes interview, Mr. Assange promised a leak containing tens of thousands of documents that would reveal a major U.S. bank operating in an “ecosystem of corruption.” More Read More

Stock Market

Morning Roundup: Follow That Hurd

  • Mark Hurd, who left his job as CEO of Hewlett-Packard this summer amid allegations of sexual harrassment earlier this year, is now also under investigation for insider trading. It has not been a good year for Mark Hurd. [WSJ]
  • Could a Wikileaks data dump about a major bank be a worse embarrassment  Read More

WIKILEAKS

Knopf Lands Julian Assange Memoir

Julian Assange has inked a deal to release his memoirs, which will follow the 39-year-old transparency advocate’s journey from his youth as a hacker in Australia to his current status as controversial founder of Wikileaks. The book was acquired by Knopf, a division of Random House, in the U.S. and Canongate in the U.K., Read More

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Bank of America Cuts Off WikiLeaks

Banking behemoth Bank of America, the company that’s assembled a “legal SWAT team” in anticipation of a supposed Wikileaks bombshell coming its way next year next year, announced over the weekend that it’s suspending payments to the document-distributing site. The New York Times reports:

“Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced Read More