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The New York State Senate Wednesday confirmed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nominee to regulate the state's more than 1,500 insurance companies and nearly 1,600 banking and other financial institutions. Maria Vullo has served as Acting Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services since February, when she was nominated by Cuomo to lead the agency he created in 2011 in response to the banking crisis.
The database of the Air Force's Automated Case Tracking System -which is used by the Air Force Inspector General's Office to manage investigations into complaints from whistleblowers of waste, fraud, and abuse; Freedom Of Information Act requests; and congressional inquiries-has become corrupted, rendering over 10,000 case files dating back to 2004 unreadable. And because of the way the database was backed up, an Air Force spokesperson said that neither the service nor Lockheed Martin-the contractor that operates the ATCS system for the Air Force-can recover the data.
When the AFL-CIO, America's largest federation of labor unions, released its annual Executive PayWatch report this month, it strived for sensationalism. The report alleges that the average S&P 500 CEO received $12.4 million in total compensation last year, compared to $36,875 for the "average nonsupervisory worker."
Court documents released Tuesday show the Gulf Bend Center settled a lawsuit in April brought by three former employees for a total of $45,000. Gulf Bend and former Associate Executive Director David Way, who was also named in the lawsuit, admitted no wrongdoing in exchange for former employees Christina Adame Garza, Raymond Garza Jr. and Philip Daniel Henneke dismissing their claims in this lawsuit as well as in a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit filed in September.
A new FOX News Poll shows what would happen if the Presidential election were tomorrow, showing face-offs between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Right now in a Clinton - Trump matchup, Trump leads Clinton by 3-points; however last month, Clinton was ahead of Trump by 7-points.