Banking:

• "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425 (http://archive.is/etdQa)

• The US government decided not to pursue criminal charges against HSBC for allowing terrorists and drug dealers to launder millions of dollars after George Osborne and the UK banking regulator intervened to warn that prosecuting Britain’s biggest bank could lead to a “global financial disaster"... The House financial services committee report said the UK interventions “played a significant role in ultimately persuading the DoJ [Department of Justice] not to prosecute HSBC”. Instead of pursuing a prosecution, the bank agreed to pay a record $1.92bn (£1.4bn) fine." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-money-laundering-george-osborne-report (https://archive.is/dbCtm)

• "Banks globally have paid $321 billion in fines since 2008 for an abundance of regulatory failings from money laundering to market manipulation and terrorist financing, according to data from Boston Consulting Group." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-02/world-s-biggest-banks-fined-321-billion-since-financial-crisis (http://archive.is/jlz9c)

• "Big Banks Paid $110 Billion in Mortgage-Related Fines. Where Did the Money Go? The largest U.S. banks were penalized for their role in inflating a mortgage bubble that helped cause the financial crisis." https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-banks-paid-110-billionin-mortgage-related-fines-where-did-the-money-go-1457557442 (http://archive.is/Qrh2W)

• "Deutsche Bank Fined in Plan to Help Russians Launder $10 Billion. Deutsche Bank agreed on Monday to pay a $425 million fine to New York State’s main financial regulator to settle charges that it helped Russian investors launder as much as $10 billion through its branches in Moscow, London and New York. The punishment represents the latest regulatory black eye for Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest. In the last decade, it has been implicated in several financial scandals, including pushing toxic mortgages on investors and manipulating London’s main lending rate for its own financial gain." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/business/dealbook/deutsche-bank-fined-for-helping-russians-launder-10-billion.html (http://archive.is/GD2Q9)

• "Citing chat room messages like these, replete with typos, jargon and vulgarities, United States, British and Swiss regulators on Wednesday fined some of the world’s biggest banks a combined $4.25 billion, accusing them of conspiring to manipulate the foreign currency markets. The fines pose no risk to the health of the banks that settled — UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland — nor were any traders or executives charged with wrongdoing. And yet the settlements on Wednesday closed only the first chapter of what is shaping up to be a more damaging story for the banks." https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/british-and-u-s-regulators-fine-big-banks-3-16-billion-in-foreign-exchange-scandal/ (http://archive.is/eOXju)

• Libor Scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal

• "Citicorp (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Barclays (BCS) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) agreed to pay more than $5 billion for conspiring to fix the price of U.S. dollars and euros, the Justice Department said Wednesday." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-rare-admission-of-guilt-wall-st-banks-admit-they-rigged-markets/ (http://archive.is/QIKvo)

• Wachovia bank paid out a fine less than 2% of the bank's $12.3bn profit for 2009 for laundering money for drug cartels https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs (https://archive.is/aAZEW)

• HSBC pays out 1.9 Billion dollar fine for laundering money for drug cartels. "Obviously, $1.9 billion is a very large number, but it's very manageable" without affecting HSBC's bottom line, said Ian Gordon, head of bank research for Investec Securities in London. "It's clearly within market expectations." http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/12/11/hsbc-laundering-probe/1760351/ (https://archive.is/GVn6Z)

• The US department of justice said HSBC had moved $881m for two drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia and accepted $15bn in unexplained "bulk cash", across the bank's counters in Mexico, Russia and other countries. In some branches the boxes of cash being deposited were so big the tellers' windows had to be enlarged. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/14/hsbc-money-laundering-fine-management (http://archive.is/adOf8)

Surveillance:

• "How America Spies on Europe and the UN. President Obama promised that NSA surveillance activities were aimed exclusively at preventing terrorist attacks. But secret documents from the intelligence agency show that the Americans spy on Europe, the UN and other countries." http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-how-the-us-spies-on-europe-and-the-un-a-918625.html Page 1: (http://archive.is/AUzdM) Page 2: (https://archive.is/1PasU)

• "Four Central Intelligence Agency officers were embedded with the New York Police Department in the decade after Sept. 11, 2001, including one official who helped conduct surveillance operations in the United States, according to a newly disclosed C.I.A. inspector general’s report. That officer believed there were “no limitations” on his activities, the report said, because he was on an unpaid leave of absence, and thus exempt from the prohibition against domestic spying by members of the C.I.A. Another embedded C.I.A. analyst — who was on its payroll — said he was given 'unfiltered' police reports that included information unrelated to foreign intelligence, the C.I.A. report said." https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/nyregion/cia-sees-concerns-on-ties-to-new-york-police.html (http://archive.is/yKwIa)

• "The C.I.A. monitoring of journalists in 1963, 1971 and 1972, including wiretapping their phones and setting up observation posts across the street from their offices to track their comings and goings and their visitors, was a practice that the White House itself employed during the Nixon administration." https://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/project-mockingbird/ (http://archive.is/pp4YM)

• Operation Chaos, Project Merrimac, and Project Resistance were three related CIA domestic spying programs. The purpose of 'Chaos' was to "amass files on Americans suspected of being domestic dissidents" and look into any foreign influence on leftist movements. Under Merrimac, "CIA agents infiltrated peace groups and black activist groups with the aim of anticipating attacks on the agency itself." The aim of project Resistance was to "compile information on radical groups that might target CIA activities or assets. The program compiled information from around the country, but specifically targeted college campuses in its search for radical elements. The CIA obtained additional information from local police, and campus officials." https://www.salon.com/2014/03/20/8_times_the_cia_used_american_spies_to_spy_on_americans_partner/ (http://archive.is/GJyNa)

• Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies. The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies

• CBS 60 Minutes: "The top secret surveillance network is called Eschelon." (13 minutes, reported by CBS prior to 9/11) https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=sfdm78zcv8o

• NSA 'offers intelligence to British counterparts to skirt UK law' http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/10/nsa-offers-intelligence-british-counterparts-blunkett (http://archive.is/lJDaY)

• NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents (http://archive.is/0CqqZ)

• "Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency can spy on anyone but British nationals, the NSA can conduct surveillance on anyone but Americans, and Germany's BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) foreign intelligence agency can spy on anyone but Germans. That's how a matrix is created of boundless surveillance in which each partner aids in a division of roles. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-nsa-targeted-germany-and-eu-buildings-a-908609.html (http://archive.is/lZseh)

• US government built secret iPod with Apple’s help, former engineer says- iPod engineer says only four people inside Apple knew of project. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/apple-helped-us-government-build-a-secret-ipod-former-engineer-says/ (https://archive.is/OltAi)

• Inside the secret world of the corporate spies who infiltrate protests https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/12/inside-the-secret-world-of-the-corporate-spies-who-infiltrate-protests

• Wal-Mart hired Lockheed Martin to monitor union organizing among their employees. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-walmart-union-surveillance/ (http://archive.is/RIk5V)

• "Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’" http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/12/12/police-data-mining-looks-through-social-media-assigns-you-a-threat-level/