“(Cough, cough.) I can’t make it into work today. Sorry.” Nearly six times out of ten, that sick call to the office is bogus. And, according to a new report by Bloomberg Businessweek (http://www NULL.businessweek NULL.com/magazine/content/10_50/b4207093635068 NULL.htm), more employers are hiring spies to prove it. Bloomberg spoke to Rick Raymond, a seasoned private detective, who …

Companies are hiring private detectives to go after employees who call in sick and then head off to the golf course. From Bloomberg Business Week: (http://www NULL.businessweek NULL.com/magazine/content/10_50/b4207093635068 NULL.htm) In 2008, Raybestos Products, a car parts manufacturer in Crawfordsville, Ind., hired an off-duty police officer to track an employee suspected of abusing her paid medical …

* All 8 arrested execs granted bail * All 8 were ordered into judicial custody earlier on Friday * CBI to seek permission to arrest Money Matters execs again MUMBAI, Dec 3 – All eight executives arrested in an Indian bribes-for-loans investigation were granted bail on Friday, as a lawyer for the government said investigators …

GREENCASTLE — The recent arrest of a Greencastle woman who allegedly embezzled more than $87,000 from her employer seems to be part of a Putnam County trend. Sheila Shoemaker, 38, is the sixth local woman in the last two-and-half years to have been charged with stealing money from the place at which she was employed. …

A California man facing trial on accusations he made a business of modifying the Xbox to play pirated games is urging a federal judge to exclude covertly videotaped evidence of him allegedly performing the deed. Defense attorneys contend that a private investigator with the Entertainment Software Association broke the law when he made the secret …

Jules and Jeremy Kroll at home By Duff McDonald, contributorDecember 1, 2010: 5:31 AM ET FORTUNE — Jeremy Kroll’s first assignment as a corporate investigator 15 years ago was to read John Grisham’s bestseller The Firm and try to determine whether real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre had acted out a delusional version of Grisham’s plot while …

By Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI, Dec 2 – India’s embattled coalition government on Thursday rammed another spending bill through parliament in defiance of a deadlock over corruption scandals that has slowed the passage of major reform legislation. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government voted through a bill for $227 million additional spending for the railways amid …