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Bradley Birkenfeld was released from federal prison in August 2012 after serving 2 1/2 years for his role as a Swiss banker hiding millions of dollars for wealthy American clients. Five weeks later, he found himself in the kitchen of a small rental house in Raymond, New Hampshire. At that moment, Birkenfeld was an ex-con. He was out of work, infamous in a famously discreet profession, and probably unemployable as a private banker anywhere. But then his lawyer walked into the room, carrying a check from the U.S. Treasury to Birkenfeld for $104 million—minus taxes. On the face was a...

Although Hillary Clinton boasts a robust 3.6 million Twitter followers, not even a vast right-wing conspiracy would be able to interact with 2 million of them. According to two popular online measuring tools, no more than 44 per cent of her Twitter fan base consists of real people who are active in using the social media platform. And at least 15 per cent – more than 544,000 – are completely fake. StatusPeople.com, the oldest publicly available Twitter-auditing tool, reports that 44 per cent of the former secretary of state's followers are 'good'; 15 per cent are 'fake'; and 41 per...

I was looking at Hillary's largest contributors at Open Secrets. This is a good resource for Freepers interested in doing their own research on candidate funding. Information for Hillary is broken up by her Senate races, which can be found here and her Presidential race, which can be found here. Let's take a little deeper look at Hillary's contributor's in her last successful race, the 2006 Senate run. Contributor Total Citigroup Inc $236,610 Goldman Sachs $205,670 MetLife Inc $156,060 Time Warner $146,390 Corning Inc $135,750 Morgan Stanley $123,560 JPMorgan Chase & Co $122,715 Skadden, Arps et al $112,530 Credit Suisse...