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27 Jul 2011 at 12:00am An environmental activist has been sentenced to two years in prison for derailing a 2008 government auction of oil and gas leases. Tim DeChristopher was convicted of two felony counts of interfering with and making false representations. He was also sentenced to three years' probation and fined $10,000. He is the first person to be prosecuted for... Read more...
4 Mar 2011 at 12:00am SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man who infiltrated a sale of federal energy leases in December 2008 to protest United States policies about climate change was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of disrupting a government auction and faces up to 10 years in prison. The defendant, Tim DeChristopher, 29, became a folk hero and a martyr in some corners of... Read more...
15 Nov 2010 at 12:00am Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesPay $6,000 for slippers? Why not -- if they make you feel like Bernard L. Madoff. His monogrammed velveteen slippers were among the hundreds of family wares that drew crowds at a government auction. Anything that may have held personal significance to Mr. Madoff led to bidding wars. The much-hyped slippers, for... Read more...
31 Oct 2010 at 12:00am 105.50: The dollar amount investors paid at a $10 billion government auction last week for every $100 of bonds sold -- agreeing, in effect, to pay the government for the privilege of lending it money. Why do that? These bonds offer a guaranteed protection against inflation. If inflation soars -- as some economists worry might happen, with the... Read more...
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