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Hedge fund exec gets 11 years for insider trading (AP)

Former Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam enters Manhattan federal court for his sentencing, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP – Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of the biggest insider-trading case in U.S. history, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years behind bars — the stiffest punishment ever handed out for the crime.


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Donald Trump presidential run a stunt? NBC exec says so

Think Donald Trump’s proposed presidential run is nothing more than a stunt? So does NBC, home of the real estate mogul’s hit show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

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Trump is right, LaGaurdia is dump: PA exec

Donald Trump wasn’t flying blind with his claim that LaGuardia Airport is a “third world” operation – or so says the guy whose agency runs the facility. The Port Authority’s executive director emerged as an unlikely co-pilot for Trump’s criticism of the Queens airport.

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Egyptian Google exec urges investments for Egypt (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, Egyptian Wael Ghonim, center, a 30-year-old Google Inc. marketing manager who was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first protest on Jan. 25, talks to the crowd in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. The Google Inc. executive who helped spark the Egyptian revolt is inviting Americans to visit Egypt and urging the world to invest there. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)AP – The Google Inc. executive who helped spark the Egyptian revolt invited Americans to visit Egypt and urged the world Friday to invest there to ensure the country’s economic success.


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NPR exec blasts tea party in hidden-camera video (AP)

FILE - In a Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, file photo, James O'Keefe attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. A National Public Radio executive blasts the tea party movement as 'racist' and 'xenophobic' and says NPR would be better off without federal funding in a hidden-camera video released Tuesday, March 8, 2011, by O'Keefe.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP – A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round of conservative attacks on public broadcasting.


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Egyptian protesters rally around Google Inc. exec (AP)

In this undated photo provided by Google Inc., Wael Ghonim, a Google Inc. marketing manager, is shown. An Egyptian businessman says Ghonim, held in anti-government protests, will go free Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Google Inc.) NO SALESAP – Egyptian protesters are rallying around a recently released Google Inc. executive as they try to maintain the momentum of a mass protest calling for President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.


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Freed Google exec helped spark Egypt revolt (AP)

In this undated photo provided by Google Inc., Wael Ghonim, a Google Inc. marketing manager, is shown. An Egyptian businessman says Ghonim, held in anti-government protests, will go free Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Google Inc.) NO SALESAP – The young Google Inc. executive detained for 12 days for protesting against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday he was behind the Facebook page that helped spark what he called “the revolution of the youth of the Internet.” A U.S.-based human rights group said nearly 300 people have died in two weeks of clashes.


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