Bear Stearns' $2 Million Harassment Payout
Charles Gasparino is CNBC's on-air editor and appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His new book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, was published by HarperBusiness.
As Bear Stearns crumbled, Charlie Gasparino has learned, the firm's CEO had another crisis: a sexual harassment accusation against legendary chairman Ace Greenberg that resulted in a $2 million payoff.
Drinking Age? We Need a Texting Age
Ashleigh Banfield is co-anchor of Courtside on IN SESSION, and hosts Disorder in the Court with Ashleigh Banfield. She previously served as a correspondent and anchor for NBC News and MSNBC.
Teenage America's obsession with sexting may have driven one Ohio girl to suicide. Ashleigh Banfield says the only way to stop the underage porn phenomenon is to prosecute offenders with zeal.
Live Nude Girl Bares All
Lizzie Stark is a freelance journalist who has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily Beast. She also edits the lit-mag Fringe and is at work on a narrative nonfiction book about Live Action Role Play, or LARP.
Would you take off your clothes in front of a room full of strangers if the money were right? In her bold new memoir, former artist's model Kathleen Rooney reveals all about being a muse.
So Many Laws, So Little Time
Philip K. Howard, a lawyer, is the author of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law, just released by W.W. Norton, and the bests-elling The Death of Common Sense. He is chairman of Common Good and advises leaders of both parties on legal and regulatory reform.
We have become a culture of rule followers, driven to frame every solution in terms of existing law or possible legal risk.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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