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Police report: Maine West coach witnessed sexual hazing, congratulated victim
BY JON SEIDEL and BECKY SCHLIKERMAN Staff Reporters November 28, 2012 10:56AM
At the law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, a parent who did not want her identity disclosed, talked about transferring her son from Maine West to Maine East after she reported hazing of a sexual nature against her son on the baseball team at Maine west in spring of 2008. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
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When a soccer player at Maine West High School was sexually assaulted on the school campus in July in an apparent act of hazing, Des Plaines police were told the school's varsity soccer coach watched it happen.
He even allegedly congratulated the victim, welcomed him "and asked him if it was all good."
That was reported to police by the school's principal Oct. 3, right after she learned of it and days after a group of varsity soccer players allegedly did the same thing to three 14-year-old players Sept. 27.
An attorney for two of the 14-year-olds said their teammates pulled down their underwear and sodomized them with fingers and sticks.
And now police reports released Wednesday by the Des Plaines Police Department reveal a disturbing new set of allegations involving soccer coach Michael Divincenzo. They include a claim that he threatened to have varsity players assault freshmen if they didn't start "communicating."
The reports, along with an expanding lawsuit against Maine Township High School District 207, also suggest a larger hazing culture sanctioned by the coach at the northwest suburban school district.
One of the players allegedly involved in the hazing is quoted in a police report as saying "'everyone' agreed to initiate freshmen, and an initiation is to take a freshman down," sodomize them with their fingers and give them "wedgies."
Multiple parents also told police they didn't want the alleged assaults of their sons investigated.
District officials, however, said they don't tolerate hazing and are investigating. Police reports show several assaults were reported by school administrators.
The lawyer behind the lawsuit, Chicago-based Tony Romanucci, is calling on the Maine Township school board to fire Divincenzo and another coach, Emilio Rodriguez, as well as Maine West High School Principal Audrey Haugan and Supt. Ken Wallace.
"It's clear that these individuals should not be around children," Romanucci said. "They have not exercised proper and appropriate judgment. ...What they did is wrong."
Students and former players, though, have defended the coach known as "Divo."
One Des Plaines police report indicates an unnamed soccer coach made the varsity team do push-ups and apologize after the alleged hazing in September.
Over the summer, one player told police, Divincenzo stopped them from "messing with another player" and told them to get back to practice.
So far the coach, himself, has ignored several phone calls from the Sun-Times seeking comment. He asked a reporter to leave when visited Wednesday at his apartment building in Elk Grove Village.
"I just have no comment right now," Divincenzo repeatedly said.
The coach remains reassigned from his coaching duties with pay. So does Rodriguez.
Meanwhile, district officials said the allegations made in September "were acted upon immediately" — police and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services were contacted.
DCFS and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office declined to comment, but Des Plaines police have already charged six students as juveniles with misdemeanor battery and hazing.
Ten students have also been disciplined.
The school's own investigation now includes a 2008 incident the district acknowledged earlier this week in which a freshman baseball player's pants were pulled down in the school locker room.
That incident was the focus of a news conference Wednesday at the offices of the boy's attorney, Romanucci.
The baseball player's mother, who wore a hat and sunglasses at the news conference and didn't give her name, wrote in a 2008 letter to Principal Haugan that Divincenzo saw other players taunting her son on bus rides and did nothing to stop it. A redacted version of that letter, in which she successfully sought a transfer for her son in August 2008 from Maine West to Maine East, was provided to the media.
The mother said the players told her son they hated him, and at the team banquet she said her son was the only player not to get a certificate of participation.
When she told school officials, the mother said she got assurances it would be taken care of.
"They did nothing," the mother said.
Maine Township officials said that while the 2008 incident was reported to the high school in August of that year, it only came to the attention of Supt. Wallace on Nov. 16. Students had been disciplined earlier at the school level.
Romanucci also represents the two 14-year-olds and one other boy who said they were assaulted by players while on the Maine West boy's soccer team.
The two 14-year-olds said they were attacked by older varsity teammates on Sept. 27. The lawsuit alleges the older players tore off their underwear, held them down, grabbed their testicles and sodomized them.
A fourth plaintiff said he was assaulted the same way when he joined the varsity squad as a freshman in 2007. He said he the attack happened in July or August and September of that year.


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Dec. 13, 2014
Op-Ed article by author Ted Genoways warns that experimental inspection program approved by Food Safety and Inspection Service of United States Department of Agriculture and intended to speed pork production raises risk of contaminated pork; urges USDA inspector general and Government Accountability Office to intervene and verify its safety before program is rolled out across pork-processing industry. MORE
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No criminal charges will be filed in the case of Jan Harding, customer who nearly died after unknowingly drinking iced tea mixed with chemicals at Dickey's Barbecue restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah; restaurant will enter into mediation with Harding and her family. MORE
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Sep. 3, 2014
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Fonterra Cooperative Group of New Zealand will spend more than $500 million in deal with Beingmate Baby and Child Food Company, Chinese manufacturer of infant formula; announcement comes six years after Fonterra's partnership with infant formula maker Sanlu Group dissolved over production of tainted formula; deal is latest that shows foreign companies hope to turn profit by bringing safer food to China. MORE
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Jul. 5, 2014
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Jun. 13, 2014
Federal officials say dozens of Whole Foods stores in the Northeast and restaurant in New York received beef over eight-month period that may not have been properly slaughtered to reduce threat of mad cow disease; Fruitland American Meat, producer of beef, recalled thousands of pounds of meat. MORE
Jun. 11, 2014
Artisanal cheese makers and consumers express outrage over decision by Food and Drug Administration to question use of wood forms and shelves for cheeses; FDA holds wood retains bacteria and cannot be properly cleaned, which can lead to consumer illness; American Cheese Society reports that more than a third of all cheese makers in America use wood in their process. MORE
Jun. 10, 2014
Food and Drug Administration announces that it has set new safety standards for infant formula; rules require manufactures to screen products for salmonella and cronobacter, a potentially lethal germ. MORE
Jun. 3, 2014
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May. 22, 2014
Federal prosecutors in Iowa bring felony charges against Quality Egg LLC, stemming from 2010 salmonella outbreak; owners Austin J DeCoster and his son Peter are each charged with selling adulterated food across state lines. MORE
May. 21, 2014
Petco says it will stop selling dog and cat treats made in China due to persistent fears that they are making pets sick; Food and Drug Administration investigators began receiving reports of illnesses in 2007, with latest update saying it has received more than 4,800 complaints and more than 1,000 reports of dog deaths resulting from Chinese-made jerky treats. MORE
May. 15, 2014
Mets first baseman Lucas Duda and Philadelphia Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg say they got sick after eating at Shake Shack at Citi Field; Mets management says it does not believe tainted burgers came from stadium; Shake Shack releases statement saying it is looking into report. MORE
Apr. 5, 2014
Health officials temporarily shut down Dominique Ansel Bakery in SoHo, which shot to fame after its eponymous chef created croissant-and-doughnut hybrids called cronuts, after finding a severe mouse infestation on premises. MORE
Mar. 12, 2014
Food and Drug Administration halts operations at Roos Foods, cheese plant in Kenton, Del, after outbreak of listeria linked to the company's cheese killed one person and sickened seven others. MORE
Mar. 6, 2014
New York City health officials warn people to take precautions when handling raw fish after at least 30 people who bought seafood at markets in Chinese neighborhoods across the city contract rare skin infection; source of outbreak is unclear, but those infected shopped at fish markets in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Flushing, Queens, and Chinatown in Manhattan. MORE
Mar. 2, 2014
Op-Ed article by Nicolette Hahn Niman, owner of BN Ranch, explains how health recall involving beef that went through a Northern California slaughterhouse affects not only commodity beef operations, but also small- and medium-scale farms and ranches; contends the recall underscores the need for good slaughterhouse facilities that can be used by all farmers. MORE
Feb. 21, 2014
Union official and food safety group say Agriculture Department is suffering from shortage of inspectors at some of nation's meat and poultry plants, raising possibility that contaminated products could reach consumers. MORE
Jan. 29, 2014
Eric and Ryan Jensen, Colorado cantaloupe farmers who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from listeria outbreak in 2011, are sentenced to five years of probation and six months of home detention. MORE
Dec. 31, 2013
Rising awareness of China's severe environmental degradation has caused a surge of anxiety among ordinary Chinese and some officials over soil polluted by contaminated industrial waste water and the potential effects on the food chain; statement by Wang Shiyuan, vice minister of land and resources, that eight million acres of farmland should not be used to plant crops, offers an alarming glimpse of official findings on pollution. MORE
Dec. 21, 2013
Food and Drug Administration proposes rule to require major food producers to develop a plan to prevent intentional attempts to contaminate the food supply. MORE
Nov. 5, 2013
DNA barcoding, which can quickly analyze and identify plant and animal species, has shown that many herbal supplements on market are diluted, or replaced entirely, by cheap fillers like soybean, wheat and rice; consumer advocates and scientists say research provides more evidence that herbal supplement industry is riddled with questionable practices, from adulteration to contamination and mislabeling. MORE
Nov. 5, 2013
The Week column; Food and Drug administration study finds that 12 percent of spices imported to the United States are contaminated with insect parts, rodent hair and pathogens like Salmonella; other significant developments in science and medicine highlighted. MORE
Nov. 4, 2013
Are kosher or organic chickens healthier? One teenager found out. MORE
Oct. 31, 2013
Food and Drug Administration releases findings that about 12 percent of spices brought to United States are contaminated with insect parts, whole insects, rodent hairs and other things. MORE
Oct. 26, 2013
Food and Drug Administration, hoping to prevent food-borne illness, proposes rules for pet food and farm animal feed; proposal comes six years after biggest pet food recall in history, when a Chinese producer contaminated dog and cat food with melamine, compound used in plastics, causing the deaths of animals across the United States. MORE
Oct. 24, 2013
Food and Drug Administration is investigating deaths of almost 600 dogs that ate jerky treats made in China. MORE
Oct. 23, 2013
Two brothers, former owners of Colorado-based Jensen Farms, plead guilty to introducing tainted food in the marketplace after deadly listeria bacteria from improperly washed cantaloupes at their farm killed 33 people in 2011; they face up to six years in prison and fines of up to $1.5 million. MORE
Oct. 22, 2013
Indian police charge school principal Meena Kumari and her husband Arjun Rai with murder over the deaths of 23 children who were poisoned by a meal served at the school that was contaminated with pesticide. MORE
Oct. 21, 2013
Study published in journal Pediatrics finds that breast milk sold and donated online is often contaminated with high levels of bacteria, including a few instances of salmonella; research confirms concerns among professionals about unregulated cottage industry and food safety. MORE
Oct. 19, 2013
Editorial warns salmonella-contaminated chicken is still being sold months after it sickened hundreds of people; holds under current law, Food Safety and Inspection Service, unit of Agriculture Department, was unable to compel Foster Farms to recall the tainted products; urges Congress to hold hearings to determine if department needs more power to protect the public from potentially serious harm. MORE
Oct. 12, 2013
Editorial warns that government shutdown has caused staff reductions at Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, increasing risk that the public will suffer from food-borne illnesses. MORE
Oct. 10, 2013
Food safety experts say the government shutdown is endangering what America eats; all inspections of domestic food except meat and poultry have halted and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recalled furloughed workers to handle a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people in 18 states. MORE
Oct. 9, 2013
Agriculture Department issues public health alert, saying strain of salmonella in Foster Farms poultry may have caused 278 people to become ill, mostly on the West Coast. MORE
Sep. 27, 2013
Owners of Colorado cantaloupe farm are arrested on charges stemming from 2011 listeria epidemic that killed 33 people in one of nation's deadliest outbreaks of food-borne illness. MORE
Sep. 24, 2013
Editorial raises questions about Department of Agriculture decision to allow chicken processed in China to be sold in America; calls for labeling of chicken processed in China, as well as frequent government inspections of Chinese facilities. MORE
Sep. 5, 2013
Government Accountability Office report says Agriculture Department's plan to change its poultry inspection procedures relied on incomplete and antiquated data; new rules will allow workers at plants, rather than agency inspectors, to examine birds on processing lines for blemishes or feces. MORE
Aug. 30, 2013
Taylor Farms, giant supplier of produce and other food products, has conducted four recalls in 2013 over concerns of contamination; food safety experts say rate is irregularly high, while Taylor Farms executives attribute it to sheer size of company. MORE
Aug. 30, 2013
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Senate Passes Sweeping Law on Food Safety
The bill would give the Food and Drug Administration new powers to order recalls, increase inspections, oversee farming and hold companies accountable.December 1, 2010 healthNews
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned
E. coli and salmonella have been found dozens of times in meat processed with a novel ammonia treatment.December 31, 2009 usNews
The Burger That Shattered Her Life
Stephanie Smith, 22, was left paralyzed in 2007 after eating a burger tainted by E. coli. Tracing her burger shows why eating ground beef is still a gamble.October 4, 2009 healthNews
Food Companies Are Placing the Onus for Safety on Consumers
Makers of processed foods have increased their efforts to eliminate pathogens, but with uneven results.May 15, 2009 businessNews
Food Safety Program
Philip Derfler, the deputy administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, defends its work.
December 24, 2014, Wednesday
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Health Warning Given Against Caramel Apples
The Centers for Disease Control is advising consumers not to eat commercially produced packaged caramel apples after tying the treats to five deaths and 21 hospitalizations in 10 states.
December 20, 2014, Saturday
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Making a Pig's Ear of Food Safety
A new inspection program results in contaminated pork.
December 13, 2014, Saturday
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Food Safety and Worker Safety Are Inextricably Linked
Peter O'Driscoll of the Equitable Food Initiative and Ellen K. Silbergeld of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins respond to an Op-Ed article.
November 28, 2014, Friday
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Bean Sprouts Tainted With Banned Additive Are Again Found in China
Sprouts produced at a site on the southern outskirts of Beijing were treated with high levels of 6-benzyladenine, a plant hormone, to speed up the growth cycle and make them more attractive to buyers, The Beijing News reported.
November 26, 2014, Wednesday
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China's Millenniums-Old Salt Monopoly No Match for Economic Reform
The country plans to scrap its state monopoly on the sale of salt, a move that would mark the end of a system that can be traced back to 685 B.C.
November 21, 2014, Friday
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Protect Those Who Protect Our Food
We need new labor laws for restaurant, farm and slaughterhouse workers.
November 13, 2014, Thursday
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In Cooking, Good Ingredients Gone 'Bad' Can Still Be Delicious
Mixing old foods with new to make everything from cakes and corn breads to chilaquiles.
November 2, 2014, Sunday
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Taiwanese Tycoon Faces Charges in Cooking Oil Scandal
Wei Ying-chung is the highest-profile person to face prosecution over revelations that have raised questions about the safety of Taiwan's domestic and exported food supply.
October 30, 2014, Thursday
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Soccer and Cycling Stars Face Grim Pollution in Beijing
Beijing is hosting a pair of major sporting events this weekend, but the air pollution there has reached hazardous levels.
October 10, 2014, Friday
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Reporting on Food Safety Problems
New York Times reporters Michael Moss and Andrew Martin are investigating food-safety problems. If you have inside information or other tips for us, including cases of food-borne illness, please contact us through The Lede blog.
Peanut Butter Recall
Complete coverage of the 2009 salmonella outbreak and subsequent peanut butter recall.
A Chinese Demand for Foreign Formula
A tainted baby formula scandal in 2008 has Chinese parents obsessed with buying foreign-made milk powder.
A Village Mourns
Poisoning from a school lunch killed 23 children from the northeastern Indian state of Bihar on Tuesday. One villager talks about the effect the tragedy had on his family.
Pictures From the Week in Business
Jon S. Corzine faces a federal suit over the collapse of MF Global, Ireland slipped back into recession and problems with counterfeit food and liquor have grown.
Food Fears Persist in Japan
Two years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, people are still worried about contaminated food, and farmers are struggling.
Regulating Artisan Cheesemakers
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November 22, 2013
As intelligent life forms in many universes join together to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, we thought we'd add our own little anniversary acknowledgement by revisiting the Plus posters' moment of fame!
November 20, 2013
How to make a hard problem easy by changing the way you look at it.
November 19, 2013
A damaged space station, no ground communications, no power, and only one chance to get it right. No, it's not a movie but the words of astronaut Michael Foale, who used maths to save a space station — and his life.
November 6, 2013
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November 4, 2013
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October 21, 2013
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This is not the first time that Formula One had held its breath waiting for news on a driver with the last serious incident being Kubica's crash back in 2011.
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Chronology of Coverage
Dec. 23, 2014
Moody's Investors Service downgrades Metropolitan Opera's credit rating; cites company's deficit, its relatively low level cash on hand and its recent high rates of spending from its endowment as key reasons. MORE
Oct. 3, 2014
Moody's Investors Service puts Metropolitan Opera under review for possible downgrade of its credit rating, underscoring gravity of company's financial challenges. MORE
Sep. 4, 2014
Editorial cautions that two rules issued by Securities and Exchange Commission to overhaul credit rating flaws that precipitated financial crisis fall short of reforms required to avert future problems; holds SEC's choice to enact incremental rather than large-scale reforms will result in the preservation of systemic conflicts and loopholes. MORE
Aug. 22, 2014
Floyd Norris High & Low Finance column observes that credit rating and auditing industries continue to be plagued by conflicts of interest and consistent errors despite increased government oversight; examines difficulties in navigating regulation in both cases. MORE
Jul. 10, 2014
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services slashes its rating on the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's revenue bonds by four notches to B- from BB, citing agency's inability so far to negotiate renewal of line of credit from Citibank and the threat of potential debt restructuring. MORE
Jun. 15, 2014
Gretchen Morgenson Fair Game column notes that a number of government pension funds have sued Moody's and Standard & Poor's for misleading credit ratings during the financial crisis, but are still relying on their ratings when buying bonds or mortgage securities; argues that contradictory stance is part of a systemic failure to hold ratings agencies liable and force them to overhaul faulty practices. MORE
Jun. 4, 2014
United States District Judge Jesse M Furman deals setback to Standard & Poor's by ruling that lawsuits accusing company of inflating its credit ratings during financial crisis belong back in state courts. MORE
Apr. 26, 2014
Russia is scrambling to stem economic fallout as tensions over Ukraine continue to mount; Russian Central Bank unexpectedly raises crucial interest rate in effort to help halt slide in country's currency and stem flight of investment capital; move comes after Standard & Poor's downgraded Russia's debt to near junk status. MORE
Mar. 23, 2014
Gretchen Morgenson Fair Game column examines why regulators have not followed through on elements of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that were meant to rein in credit rating agencies after their failures during the 2008 financial crisis; notes that some advocates hope Securities and Exchange Commission will abandon tepid rules that have languished for years and start over with tougher regulations. MORE
Mar. 5, 2014
Moody's Investors Service downgrades Chicago's credit rating to Baa1 from A3, putting it three notches above junk status; cites city's unfunded pension liabilities. MORE
Feb. 11, 2014
Puerto Rico Gov Alejandro Garcia Padilla says he plans to boost the island's economy by overhauling its tax system and reducing government spending after two credit-rating agencies slapped the island with downgrades. MORE
Feb. 5, 2014
Analysts and traders said prices of some Puerto Rico bonds traded lower on Wednesday, but there was no mass selling that might indicate a panic. MORE
Jan. 28, 2014
Moody's downgrades its credit rating for Sony to junk status, saying prospects for turnaround at its consumer electronics business are poor. MORE
Dec. 21, 2013
Standard & Poor's lowers European Union's top-level AAA long-term credit rating one level below to AAplus; emphasizes that downgrade applies only to EU's borrowing as a supranational body and has no effect on individual member states. MORE
Nov. 15, 2013
Floyd Norris High & Low finance column evaluates claim by Bear Stearns hedge fund manager that firm could not be held responsible for collapse of mortgage-backed securities during financial crisis, arguing that blame cannot be put entirely on agencies that gave securities investment-grade ratings; argues that such firms, at minimum, should volunteer to return management fees to the investors they served so badly. MORE
Nov. 11, 2013
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column contends decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade France is a clear demonstration that deficit scolds in Europe, and in America, are using debt fears to advance an ideological agenda; maintains France has become the target of incessant negative propaganda for refusing to adopt austerity measures. MORE
Nov. 9, 2013
Standard & Poor's cuts France's credit rating to AA from AA+, saying it does not believe government's current policy course will restore growth. MORE
Sep. 17, 2013
As banks began reviving the market for bonds tied to home loans, Standard & Poor's tough ratings of those bonds was hurting its bottom line. MORE
Sep. 4, 2013
Standard & Poor's denounces $5 billion fraud lawsuit by Justice Dept as retaliation for its 2011 decision to strip country of its AAA credit rating; says lawsuit is intended to punish it for exercising its First Amendment rights and that the suit seeks 'excessive fines.' MORE
Jul. 31, 2013
Standard and Poor's has been giving higher ratings than its big rivals to certain mortgage-backed securities, and its market share has tripled in the first half of 2013, an analysis shows. MORE
Jun. 11, 2013
Standard & Poor's upgrades its outlook for long-term debt of United States, citing government's strengthened finances, recovering national economy and some easing of Washington's political gridlock. MORE
Jun. 7, 2013
Illinois Gov Pat Quinn responds to state's credit rating being downgraded again by Moody's Investors Service because of a pension debacle, calling lawmakers into a special session 'to finish the job.' MORE
Jun. 7, 2013
Standard & Poor's wins ruling that moves 15 lawsuits in which it and its parent company, McGraw-Hill Financial, were accused of fraudulently inflating credit ratings to single federal court in New York; consolidation may limit potential for company to face multiple financial judgements or conflicting court rulings. MORE
Jun. 4, 2013
Fitch Ratings says it will downgrade Illinois state government credit from A to A-minus because lawmakers failed to enact solution to public-employee pension crisis. MORE
Apr. 20, 2013
Fitch Ratings strips Britain of its top AA rating score, citing weaker economic outlook that continues to hinder control of debt; Fitch is second major ratings agency to downgrade nation's credit. MORE
Mar. 9, 2013
Fitch ratings agency cuts its assessment of Italy's sovereign credit; lower rating is still within Fitch's scale of debt considered investment grade, but agency also gives Italy's debt a negative outlook, citing economic and political turmoil. MORE
Feb. 25, 2013
News analysis; Moody's decision to downgrade Britain's credit rating highlights country's economic malaise and its failure to keep pace with its European peers; data suggests that country's high-profile austerity program has not reduced deficit and has slowed recovery. MORE
Feb. 14, 2013
Letter from Floyd Abrams, lawyer for Standard & Poor's in Justice Department litigation, responds to Feb 6 editorial on federal suit against S&P. MORE
Feb. 10, 2013
Gretchen Morgenson Fair Game column observes that lawmakers have tried to open world of credit-ratings agencies to more competition, but notes that for small firm R&R Consulting, it has been difficult to gain Securities and Exchange Commission approval. MORE
Feb. 8, 2013
Floyd Norris High & Low Finance column outlines Justice Department's civil suit accusing Standard & Poor's of altering its ratings models for mortgage securities in order to retain clients during buildup to financial crisis. MORE
Feb. 6, 2013
Editorial welcomes lawsuit filed against Standard & Poor's by Justice Department as move toward accountability; points out underlying problem of lack of proper regulation of ratings industry still remains unresolved. MORE
Jan. 17, 2013
Credit reporting agency Moody's says it has revised its financial outlook for colleges and universities, assigning negative rating to entire field. MORE
Dec. 22, 2012
Financial markets and credit rating agencies are closely watching negotiations on both the fiscal impasse and the raising of the debt ceiling. MORE
Dec. 19, 2012
Standard & Poor's ratings agency upgrades Greece's credit grade by six notches to B-, highest grade it has given Greece since June 2011; reflects view that the other 16 European Union countries are determined to keep Greece in the currency union; upgrade lifts Greece out of default but leaves its devalued bonds in junk status. MORE
Dec. 14, 2012
Moody's Investor Service downgrades debt of Puerto Rico to just above junk status, putting pressure on governor-elect Alejandro Garcia-Padilla to show credible plans for staving off a crisis. MORE
Nov. 23, 2012
Decision by Moody's Investor Service to downgrade France's prime debt rating makes it likely that European Financial Stability Facility and the European Stability Mechanism, two organizations handling euro zone bailouts, will soon be downgraded as well. MORE
Nov. 20, 2012
Moody's Investors Service downgrades France's sovereign debt rating by one notch, to Aa1 from Aaa, citing country's uncertain fiscal outlook as result of 'deteriorating economic prospects.' MORE
Nov. 9, 2012
Floyd Norris High & Low Finance column notes that legal and regulatory protections for credit rating agencies may have started to break down in the wake of financial crisis; notes federal judge in Australia has found Standard & Poor's liable for issuing top investment-grade rating of AAA for a complex and risky financial product issued by Dutch bank ABN. MORE
Sep. 19, 2012
Standard & Poor's downgrades New Jersey's financial outlook to negative from stable; agency says it believes Gov Chris Christie's revenue projections for the current fiscal year are overly optimistic, and warns that the $32 billion budget is structurally unsound. MORE
Sep. 12, 2012
Congressional leaders dig in their heels against any quick deal to resolve a looming fiscal disaster before the November election, even as the ratings agency Moody's Investor Service warns that it will downgrade the government's debt if no solution is found by year's end. MORE
Sep. 4, 2012
Moody's Investors Service cuts the European Union's credit outlook to negative; says EU's rating will be particularly vulnerable to any changes in the AAA ratings of Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlands. MORE
Aug. 30, 2012
Standard & Poor's downgrades Illinois' credit rating from A+ to A because of what it calls weak pension funding levels and a lack of action on reform measures from the Legislature. MORE
Jul. 3, 2012
Court documents in a civil suit in federal court cast doubt on the independence of Moody's and Standard & Poor's in grading a deal involving a British debt issuer, Cheyne Finance, that went bad in 2007; investors say their losses resulted from fraud and negligence by Morgan Stanley, which marketed the deal, and the rating agencies; defense says losses were caused by market decline. MORE
Jun. 23, 2012
Analysts do not expect credit downgrades of several big banks to increase the costs of consumer borrowing; experts hold that banks have sufficient liquidity to absorb losses related to the downgrades without passing on costs to their customers. MORE
Jun. 15, 2012
European leaders face increasing pressure to respond to the region's financial problems as Spanish bond yields hit 7 percent after a credit downgrade from Moody's Investors Service, a level that has prompted full bailouts of other nations; Italy auctions 10-year bonds at 6.13 percent. MORE
Jun. 14, 2012
Moody's Investors Service cuts its credit rating on Spanish government debt by three notches, saying the newly approved euro zone plan to help Spain's banks will increase the country's debt burden; says it could lower Spain's rating further. MORE
May. 23, 2012
Ford Motor Company receives a second investment-grade rating from Moody's Investor Service; rating allows company to reclaim assets that it pledged in 2006 as collateral on $23.5 billion in loans that helped it survive the recession without taking a government bailout; assets included the company's iconic logo. MORE
May. 18, 2012
Greece's caretaker prime minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, appoints a mix of veteran politicians and eminent economists to act as a temporary cabinet until June 17, when the second general election in a little more than a month is scheduled to be held; rating agency Fitch announces that Greece's debt rating has been lowered from a B-minus to a CCC. MORE
Apr. 27, 2012
Standard & Poor's downgrades Spain's credit rating, saying the country's sovereign debt levels are too high and that its banks need an infusion of aid as the economy contracts; credit rating is still regarded as investment grade, but reduction from A to BBB+ could increase borrowing costs. MORE
Apr. 1, 2012
European Union finance ministers agree to require companies to rotate ratings agencies, though the rules still must be approved by governments and the European Parliament. MORE
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Moody's Lowers the Metropolitan Opera's Credit Rating
The Met's decision to once again use its Chagall murals as collateral for loans was one factor cited in the ratings downgrade, the latest evidence of the group's financial travails.
December 23, 2014, Tuesday
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Credit Rating Agency DBRS to Be Sold to 2 Private Equity Firms
Walter Schroeder, the founder and controlling shareholder of DBRS, will retain a stake in the Toronto-based company.
December 22, 2014, Monday
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Hearst to Buy Control of Fitch, the Credit Ratings Firm
The deal means that one of the big three ratings firms will be a majority-owned subsidiary of the privately held media giant.
December 12, 2014, Friday
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Metropolitan Opera's Credit Rating Is Under Review for Possible Downgrade
Moody's Investors Service said it was considering a downgrade in light of what it called a "softening" of both Met ticket sales and contributions from donors.
October 3, 2014, Friday
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2 Senators Introduce New Anti-Inversion Bill
Charles Schumer of New York and Richard Durbin of Illinois have introduced a bill that would ban companies that have reincorporated overseas from using several popular tax avoidance techniques.
September 10, 2014, Wednesday
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Credit Rating Reform Comes Up Short
Two new rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission are only modest improvements to a process that requires substantial reform.
September 4, 2014, Thursday
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Regulators Struggle With Conflicts in Credit Ratings and Audits
Two industries with obvious conflicts of interest are having trouble adjusting to government regulation, and regulators are having trouble deciding what to do about them.
August 22, 2014, Friday
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S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted
After more than five hours of mediated talks between the government and the hedge funds on Wednesday, neither side appeared closer to a deal.
July 30, 2014, Wednesday
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S.E.C. Scrutinizes McGraw Hill Over Commercial Mortgage Securities
McGraw Hill said the S.E.C. had sent the company a Wells notice over commercial mortgage-backed securities that were rated by its S.&P.'s Ratings Services subsidiary.
July 23, 2014, Wednesday
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Standard & Poor's Cuts Rating for Puerto Rico Electric Power
The ratings service slashed its rating on the utility's revenue bonds by four notches to B- from BB.
July 10, 2014, Thursday
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A Wall Street Grudge
Two years ago, Egan-Jones cut the rating on Jefferies. A few weeks ago, Sean Egan apologized to the investment bank's chief executive.
Ratings Shift
Last year, after struggling to win business, Standard & Poor's changed its criteria for rating bonds backed by residential mortgages. Since the change, the company has generally given the most optimistic forecasts for the bonds of any rating agency. That has made S.& P. popular with the banks issuing the bonds.
A Grading Change
After a change in its methods, S.& P. has been more likely to give good ratings, and its market share has risen.
Class-Action Suit Against Ratings Agencies
Documents in a civil suit in federal court appear to threaten a legal defense that credit ratings agencies have long used to fend off liability for misjudging securities.
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The onset of cold weather is a great reminder of the need to move all liquid pesticides and PVC pipe cement in out of the cold. Since I don't have a heated garage or one that doesn't go below freezing, I have to move these items into my home where they won't freeze during the winter. Finding a place where they will be safe from kids and pets can sometimes be a challenge but my cellar is a good fit.
Once frozen, PVC pipe cement turns into a gel like a 10-year old bottle of rubber glue. Once frozen, the only thing you can do is throw the can away and go and buy more. Since I do irrigation system repairs and upgrades I hate to waste a perfectly good can of PVC cement by letting it freeze. I always clean up the dried cement around the cap so it fits tight and add another layer of protection from fumes by putting the can in a Ziplock plastic bag. The more odoriferous PVC primer will stay in my un-heated garage since freezing doesn't hurt it.
My liquid pesticide formulations will also come into the home. Some of these will likely separate as they freeze and be difficult to get back into solution. If that happens I will need to dispose of them as they will lose their effectiveness. In case I find any containers that are leaking I'll take them down to the Hazardous Waste Materials center at the landfill. The remaining containers will be placed in Ziplock bags and stored away in the cellar for the winter. We don't have a basement in our home.
When the house was built in 1898 or so, they only had shovels and animal-powered scoops to dig out the basement so they did as little of that as possible. Most of our cellar is a crawl space about 18 inches high where I sometimes spend weekends crawling around to install electric cable to replace the old two wire electric lines initially used to wire the house. There are several of those tight areas I've dug out even more to make room for storage. The rest of the cellar contains a furnace, a fruit cellar, and a storage room converted out of a coal room for a coal-fired furnace since replaced. The cellar doesn't get too cold or too hot so is ideal for storage of PVC cement and pesticides.
The dry pesticides I have accumulated over the years, i.e. powders and dusts, will remain in the garage. Freezing does not harm these products. Water is what will cause their decay in usefulness so keeping these bags in good condition and placing any with tears into plastic bags is recommended.
Regardless of what pesticides you are moving from garage to home or elsewhere it is important to wear gloves. Nitrile gloves are the best as they keep you from coming in contact with the product and since every container once opened has residue on the outside, the use of gloves is very important. Many of the pesticide products on the shelf at the stores even have chemical residue on the outside of the container so don't take chances. Don't use leather gloves as leather cannot be decontaminated and you will be exposed to the chemical every time you put those gloves back on.
While we know what can happen to your health, i.e. liver failure, cancer, convulsions, etc., when you come into contact with a high dose of pesticide there is still a lot of data lacking on what happens when you are exposed to small doses of pesticide over a longer period of time. Don't take a chance. Wear gloves when transferring these products for winter storage even if the product is registered for organic gardeners. Nicotine sulfate, the oldest organic-approved botanical insecticide in use today, is very toxic to warm-blooded animals and is readily absorbed through the skin.
The term pesticide refers to insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, molluscicides, herbicides, and even plant growth regulators. Molluscicides are products used to manage (control) snails and slugs such as iron phosphate. Rodenticides are products used to control rodents. While some of these products are very safe for use, they are still regulated by federal and state governments. The Federal Act classifying these chemicals as pesticides is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Even organic materials fall under FIFRA. In Colorado the registration and use of these products is also regulated by the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
When you store your pesticides, PVC cement, paint and other products in the home, it is important to place them where they can't cause health issues. Even when you bag these materials to prevent the escape of fumes, vapors might still escape. Storing these items as far away from children and pets is important to protect their health. Placing them in a locked cabinet or where kids and pets never go, like my cellar, is preferred. If the only place you have to store these products is in proximity to kids and pets, it would be best to make a trip to the Hazardous Materials building at the landfill to dispose of these products and buy a new supply of pesticides and PVC cement in the spring. Buy smaller sizes so you don't have to dispose of as much product when winter arrives again next year.
Dr. Curtis E. Swift is a retired horticulture agent with the CSU Extension. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or check out his blog at http://SwiftsGardeningBlog.blogspot.com. He owns Swift Horticultural Consulting and High Altitude Lavender.


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CANADA: Our side of defence
by Jorge Barrera
The Ottawa Times
August 20th, 2006
Ottawa may have the reputation of a government town, but it's also home to Canada's military-industrial complex.
US: Army May End Lockheed Spy Plane Contract
Associated Press
January 12th, 2006
The Army is expected to cancel a Lockheed Martin Corp. contract to build a new spy plane, according to industry and Pentagon officials, despite efforts by the defense contractor to solve problems that include lightening the plane's weight.
UK: Britain in $70 Billion Jet Deal With Saudi Arabia
Agence France Presse
December 21st, 2005
Britain is to supply Saudi Arabia with Typhoon jets in a massive deal reported to be worth up to 70 billion dollars, that primarily benefits British company BAE Systems, the Ministry of Defence said.
US: Raytheon wins US$1.3 billion army contract for new radar system
Associated Press
November 15th, 2005
Raytheon Co. said Tuesday it won a $1.3-billion-US army contract to develop and test a new radar system designed to protect troops from cruise missile attacks.
Iraq: Army Contract Again Disputed
by T. Christian Miller
Los Angeles Times
May 26th, 2004
The U.S. Army has, for the second time, awarded a contract to supply the Iraqi security forces to a consortium of companies with little arms experience and whose participants include a friend of controversial Iraqi official Ahmad Chalabi.
US: Boeing reports $623 million profit, surge in defense revenue
by Dave Carpenter
Associated Press
April 28th, 2004
Boeing Co. rode an 18 percent surge in revenue from its defense contracting unit to a far-better-than-expected $623 million profit in the first quarter and raised its earnings estimates for 2004 and 2005.
US: Jets, IT Drive Lockheed Gains
by Renae Merle
Washington Post
April 28th, 2004
Lockheed Martin Corp. reported a 16 percent jump in first-quarter profit yesterday as demand for fighter aircraft and information technology continued to boost sales.
US: Probe of Boeing, Documents Expanded
by Renae Merle
Washington Post
April 28th, 2004
A criminal investigation into whether Boeing Co. used stolen Lockheed Martin Corp. documents to win an Air Force contract has grown to include an examination of NASA contract competitions, sources close to the inquiry said yesterday.
US: Boeing Turns to New CEO and the Pentagon
by Julie Creswell
April 19th, 2004
The aerospace giant saw its blue-chip reputation and cherished status as an innovator flipped upside down last year. Two of its top executives became entangled in an ethics investigation by the Pentagon, while other employees faced criminal charges involving industrial espionage. The government penalized Boeing by canceling rocket launches valued at about $ 1 billion and is holding up a $ 17 billion aerial tanker contract. Furthermore, Boeing infuriated investors with a billion-dollar surprise charge last summer. And underlying this sorry litany was a simpler, larger problem: In 2003, for the first time, Boeing sold fewer planes than the other global aviation superpower, Europe's Airbus Industrie.
UK: BAE Chairman 'Close' to Accused Executive
by David Leigh and Rob Evans
Guardian (London)
April 7th, 2004
Sir Dick Evans, the chairman of BAE Systems, had close personal links with the arms firm executive accused of providing free holidays and gifts for a Ministry of Defence official, it was alleged last night. Tony Winship, a former BAE employee, is the executive at the centre of allegations revealed in yesterday's Guardian that a BAE slush fund paid for a series of unauthorised luxury hotel stays for a civil servant in the MoD's arms sales unit.
US: Diminished Oversight Leads to Overpricing
by David Phinney
Federal Times
April 5th, 2004
Ken Pedeleose's eyes popped in awe as he plowed through a bill for airplane parts in 1999: $2,522 for a 4½-inch metal sleeve, $744 for a washer, $714 for a rivet, and $5,217 for a 1-inch metal bracket.
Japan: Arms Export Ban To Be Revisited
by Mariko Sanchanta
Financial Times
April 1st, 2004
Japan's decision to dispatch troops from its self-defence force to southern Iraq has marked a watershed inthe country's postwar history and jarred the pacifist roots of its constitution. But while Japan may now be shipping its soldiers to Samawah, it still struggles to export Japanese-made weapons. A four-decade ban on the sale of weapons abroad has left the country's defence industry largely impotent on the world stage.
Iraq: Trade Fair Postponed Over Security Fears
by Joshua Chaffin and Salamander Davoudi
Financial Times
April 1st, 2004
The deteriorating security situation in Iraq has prompted the postponement of a US-led trade fair aimed at accelerating reconstruction in the country amid heightening concerns about the safety of foreign civilians working there. Organisers of Destination Baghdad Expo, that was due to begin on Monday, postponed the event following the gruesome killings on Wednesday of four western contract workers in the city of Falluja.
Poland: Company Tied to Secret Services May Win Iraqi Tender
Polish News Bulletin
March 11th, 2004
Iraq: Marketplace Deaths Caused by Raytheon Missile
by Cahal Milmo
Independent (London)
April 2nd, 2003
An American missile, identified from the remains of its serial number, was pinpointed yesterday as the cause of the explosion at a Baghdad market on Friday night that killed at least 62 Iraqis. The codes on the foot-long shrapnel shard, seen by the Independent correspondent Robert Fisk at the scene of the bombing in the Shu'ale district, came from a weapon manufactured in Texas by Raytheon, the world's biggest producer of "smart" armaments.
US: Unjust Rewards
by Ken Silverstein
Mother Jones
May 1st, 2002
The government continues to award federal business worth billions to companies that repeatedly break the law. A Mother Jones investigation reveals which major contractors are the worst offenders.
Palestine: Death in Bethlehem, Made in America
by Robert Fisk
The Independent (U.K.)
April 15th, 2001
Lockheed Martin of Florida and the Federal Laboratories of Pennsylvania have made quite a contribution to life in the municipality of Bethlehem. Or, in the case of Lockheed, death. Pieces of the US manufacturer's Hellfire air-to-ground missile lie in the local civil defence headquarters in Bethlehem less than two months after it exploded in 18-year-old Osama Khorabi's living room, killing him instantly.
US: A Blank Check from Washington for Colombia's Dirty War
by Mark Weisbrot
April 1st, 2000
One of the problems with deleting our government's worst crimes from America's historical hard drive is that they tend to recur. How many people even know the hideous story of how we supported and financed the slaughter of tens of thousands innocent civilians, teachers, health care and church workers in Central America in the 1980s?
Brazil: Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties
by Pratap Chatterjee
Inter Press Service
December 3rd, 1995
A contract to monitor the Amazon rainforest in Brazil will include a shadowy company once described as ''virtually indistinguishable'' from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The 1.4-billion-dollar contract for satellite monitoring of drug trafficking and deforestation in the 3.2-million-square-kilometre forests in the Brazilian Amazon was awarded last summer to Raytheon, a 12-billion-dollar, Massachusetts-based company, Raytheon, that makes Patriot and Sidewinder missiles.
Brazil: Police Wiretap Jeopardizes Raytheon Radar Project
by Katherine Ellison
The Miami Herald
November 25th, 1995
It was meant to be a shining model of the new era of inter-American trade: a $1.4 billion U.S. contract -- the largest ever awarded in Brazil -- in which the Massachusetts- based Raytheon Corp. would build a vast radar project in the Amazon jungle.
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