Stories in the category Muck tracker
November 21, 2009 at 4:28pm
Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas announced Saturday she would vote to allow the health care bill to proceed. Her assent gives the Democrats a 60-vote supermajority.
November 21, 2009 at 8:27am
Tommy Hilfiger has sold his mansion in Greenwich, CT, for $20 million, reports the Wall Street Journal.
November 20, 2009 at 1:51pm
The Senate ethics panel admonished Sen. Roland Burris on Friday, but decided against pursuing ethics charges for the way he obtained an appointment to the Senate.
November 19, 2009 at 8:53pm
The Oprah Winfrey Show will end in September 2011, Variety reports.
November 19, 2009 at 5:47pm
In an interview airing Thursday on Nightline, Martha Stewart says her criminal prosecution and imprisonment probably cost her company more than $1 billion.
November 19, 2009 at 5:24pm
Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for New York governor, The New York Times reports.
November 19, 2009 at 5:14pm
The Senate has confirmed President Obama’s nomination of David Hamilton to a federal appeals court, Associated Press reports.
November 19, 2009 at 10:11am
Another way to see Muckety: Pedro Cruz’s video on the rise and fall of European empires. (View full screen.)
November 18, 2009 at 9:12am
President Obama met with his half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, Monday during his visit to China, reports the Associated Press.
November 18, 2009 at 9:03am
Tom Daschle is leaving Alston & Bird to join DLA Piper, the National Law Journal reports.
November 17, 2009 at 1:57pm
Lazard Ltd. has named Kenneth Jacobs as chairman and CEO, Bloomberg reports. He succeeds Bruce Wasserstein, who died in October.
November 16, 2009 at 3:27pm
A body found in the Chicago River has been identified as Michael W. Scott, president of the school board, reports the Chicago Tribune.
November 16, 2009 at 2:15pm
CNN was so eager to get rid of Lou Dobbs that it paid him an $8 million severance package, reports the New York Post.
November 15, 2009 at 8:12pm
An interesting tally, as reported by Henry Blodget: Bloomberg employs more journalists (2,200) than the New York Times Co. (1,250) and Dow Jones (1,900).
November 15, 2009 at 5:18pm
An auction of items once owned by Bernard Madoff has raised more than $900,000, Bloomberg reports.
November 12, 2009 at 1:31pm
Billionaire Bill Gates said Wednesday that he believes that Wall Street pay is “often too high, but it’s a very tough problem to solve,” reports Reuters.
November 12, 2009 at 10:36am
Former U.S. ambassador Peter Galbraith is in line to make millions of dollars on a Kurdish oil deal, reports The New York Times.
November 11, 2009 at 9:09pm
Lou Dobbs announced Wednesday that he is leaving CNN.
November 11, 2009 at 1:59pm
John J. O’Connor III, husband of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, died Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
November 11, 2009 at 11:22am
Blackwater execs authorized $1 million in bribes to quell criticism of company guards having killed Iraqi citizens, reports The New York Times.