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Bailout Recipients Headline Jesse Jackson FundraiserFalls Church, Virginia — Today the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) asked Neil M. Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), for a formal review of the sponsorship by Bank of America and Citigroup of the Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Conference currently taking place in New York City. The January 13-16 event is one of two of Jesse Jackson’s annual fundraisers. According to official conference materials, Citigroup is a “Gold Sponsor,” a designation costing $50,000. Bank of America is identified as a “Silver Sponsor,” a designation costing $30,000. Both...

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Duke Energy Corporation Stock Purchasers Represented By Schatz & Nobel In Class Action Lawsuit HARTFORD, Conn., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of all persons who purchased the common stock of Duke Energy Corporation, ("Duke Energy" or the "Company") (NYSE: DUK) from July 22, 1999 through May 17, 2002, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Named as defendants in the Complaint are Duke Energy, and certain individual officers of the Company. The Complaint alleges that the defendants made materially false...