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Investment executive charged in NY pension probe

Apr. 30, 2009
An executive at a Dallas investment firm that advises some of the country's biggest public pension funds has been arrested in connection with a pay-to-play scandal in New York. Saul Meyer is a co-founder of Aldus Equity, one of several companies whose conduct...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch