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Live Chat Wednesday 1 p.m. ET: Who's Responsible for Cell Tower Deaths?
Join Cell Tower Deaths reporters Ryan Knutson and Liz Day for a live chat featuring former cell tower climber Wally Reardon and guest questioner Ben Drawbaugh from Engadget. You can leave a question now.
May 22, 2012
Watch Now: Six Billion Dollar Bet
Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 with oversize ambition and a passion for risk. But after a massive bet on European debt turned sour, the firm lay in ruins, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing.
May 22, 2012
What Happened to MF Global's Customer's Money?
Seven months since MF Global filed for bankruptcy, here is what is known about the brokerage firm's customers and what happened to $1.6 billion worth of their missing money.
May 22, 2012
Five Risky Bets that Paid Off
As the markets reveled in JP Morgan's $2 billion loss, and scrambled to understand the $6 billion wipe-out at MF Global, observers asked why, in the wake of the economic meltdown, anyone would take such extreme risks. The answer, of course, is that sometimes those gambles pay off.
May 22, 2012
Rich Ilczyszyn: Inside MF Global During Its Collapse
A former trader discusses those scary final days in late October 2011, and what it was like to learn that customer money was missing. "They were saying it was $500 million; then it was a billion," he tells FRONTLINE. "It was just unbelievable. It was like a movie."
May 22, 2012
How Subcontracting Affects Worker Safety
More workers are now employed by a vast network of subcontractors that affects not just industries like tower climbers and construction, but also the health care, logistics, retail and service industries. FRONTLINE interviewed David Weil to understand how the system works now, and why it’s changing the way Americans work today.
May 22, 2012
Methodology: How We Calculated the Tower Industry Death Rate
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not have a standard code for tower climbing and, thus, does not compile uniform data on tower workers' fatality rates. We used OSHA’s methodology to calculate deaths per 100,000 workers for the tower industry for each year from 2003 to 2010.
May 22, 2012
Jordan Barab: Why OSHA Can't Cite Cell Carriers for Worker Safety Violations
OSHA's legal authorities depend on who employs on-site workers, explains Jordan Barab, the agency's second in command.
May 22, 2012
In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives
Corporate giants have outsourced the dangerous work of building and maintaining communications towers to tiny subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites.
May 22, 2012
Suicide Attack Suggests Intensifying War in Yemen
In what was the most deadly terrorist attack in Yemen in years, a suicide bomber disguised as a Yemeni soldier detonated explosives during a military parade rehearsal near the Presidential palace in Sana today, killing more than 90 people and wounding 300 others.
May 21, 2012