Vice President Joe Biden played a key role in the financial industry’s four-decade campaign to eliminate bankruptcy protections for student debtors.

New York's governor should push General Electric to clean up the Hudson River pollution it caused, environmentalists say.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's strong criticism of Joe Biden may complicate the vice president's possible White House bid.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gives subsidies to GE as critics say the mega-firm is refusing to eliminate its cancer-causing pollution in the Hudson River.

One investigator said the bank the fund was steered to had reaped more than $2 billion in illegal profits from New York pension fund clients.

Donald Trump is slamming the H-1B specialty visa program -- while using it to hire foreign-born models for his agency.

GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and John Kasich left government for the doomed bank — and got big paychecks as Lehman lost their states’ money.

As governor, Jeb Bush forged a relationship with Lehman Brothers that proved disastrous for Florida's pension fund -- but it was quite lucrative for him.

As a presidential candidate, Bush has made a point of his disdain for lobbyists -- but after leaving the governorship, he essentially acted as one.

President Obama pledged to "hold Wall Street accountable" after the financial crisis, but government records show corporate crime prosecutions have plummeted.

Jeb Bush's Super PAC released its list of donors Friday. Many of them financially gained during his time as Florida Governor.

A Democratic Party financier's firm received $1 billion in Illinois pension cash after he and his wife donated to a political action committee.

The head of New Jersey's labor federation to Gov. Chris Christie: Get our pension money out of alternative investments.

The U.S. Senate quietly passed a bill on Wednesday that lets public education money for low-income kids flow to financial consulting firms.

Chicago's mayor says merging state pension funds will solve his city's education funding crisis, but it also directs funds to campaign donors.

"Gift-giving by asset managers to trustees is effectively bribery," says an ex-SEC lawyer.

Jeb Bush attacks D.C. lobbyists on the stump, but Florida lobbyists had open access to his administration when he was governor.

A firm with ties to Obama would get billions from a Pentagon plan to cut future veterans’ guaranteed pension benefits.

Much-touted pension reforms in Rhode Island actually cost taxpayers $1.4 billion in just four years, according to a new report commissioned by retirees.

The governor's cost estimate omitted $335 million in payments to financial firms. Today, New Jersey legislators will hold a hearing on skyrocketing fees.