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NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Bernardino Len, head of the U.N. Support Mission in Libya, warned the U.N. Security Council on Monday that Libya has only a "small window of opportunity" to address its ongoing conflict.

Libya is at a "critical moment" in its democratic transition as it confronts "a faltering political process that has brought the country closer to the brink of protracted conflict and civil strife," said Len.

"The small window of opportunity before us for a peaceful resolution to the current crisis should not be missed... Libya's leaders will have to act quickly, and seek a political solution through a meaningful and inclusive dialogue."

Increasing violence in Libya has led to an "extremely volatile and precarious" ground situation.

Islamist rebels having captured Tripoli, Benghazi, Derna and other cities. Parliament fled Tripoli and has taken refuge aboard a Greek car ferry in Tobruk harbor. Diplomatic missions, including the U.S., evacuated Libya this summer due to security concerns.

In response, Len told the Council: "I impressed upon my interlocutors the need to refrain from taking any action that would further exacerbate current divisions, and stressed that any solution to the current crisis would have to be negotiated within the framework of the current political legitimacy that emanated from the elections."

Despite the challenges, Len expressed his determination to support "the Libyan people's desire to safeguard their country's national unity and social fabric."

To date, the U.N.'s Refugee Agency and World Food Program have assisted tens of thousands of internally displaced persons in Libya.

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En Banc Court 09-71491 Roberto Maldonado v. Eric Holder, Jr.
A citizen of Mexico petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals #39; denial of his application for deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture.

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FBI Targets Minority Communities in Mortgage Fraud Investigations
Former bank regulator Bill Black says Attorney General Eric Holder must stop targeting minorities and instead focus on the mortgage fraud of banksters.

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Attorney General Eric Holder wants to encourage whistleblowers to come forward about financial fraud.

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney)

In a speech slated for delivery Wednesday in New York, Holder will ask Congress to change a federal law to increase the financial reward paid to anyone who provides evidence of financial fraud to the government.

He'll also announce plans to increase the number of FBI agents with forensic accounting experience who are focused on investigating white collar crime, according to a Justice Department official.

In his five-plus years leading the Justice Department, Holder has faced criticism about how the department has handled corporate crime investigations and its failure to bring charges against top bankers tied to the financial crisis. The department struggled to find proof of criminal wrongdoing, but in recent years has dusted off a civil law that it is using to extract multi-billion dollar settlements from some of the nation's biggest banks for their shoddy mortgage securities sales practices.

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It's that law, known as the Financial Institutions Recovery and Reform Act, that Holder hopes to change to award bigger sums to whistleblowers in exchange for helping prosecutors bring white collar crime cases. The law currently caps whistleblower awards at $1.6 million, but Holder believes that's not enough to make a Wall Street banker risk his lucrative career to come forward.

The attorney general wants to bring the law in line with another whistleblower law, the False Claims Act, which encourages whistleblowers to report fraud against government programs. In those cases, whistleblowers can win awards worth up to 30% of the prosecutor's final settlement, sometimes totaling millions of dollars.

Holder hopes these steps will help the Justice Department pursue cases against bankers and executives, and not just against the corporations.

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Holder: Pay Wall Street whistleblowers more

To prosecute wall street crimes.

He wants more money to reward whistleblowers and more agents with expertise.

Phil, what is behind what the attorney general is saying and what we are going to hear from him this afternoon?

Frustration.

I have got excerpts of the speech the attorney general will give today at nyu law school.

What i have been hearing behind the scenes from justice department officials for the last two or three years, all the roadblocks they have run into as they have tried to figure out a way to prosecute individuals coming out of the financial crisis.

It's a feeling that executives are to insulated, that lawyers are making sure that everything their top level people are doing at the bank will never get into the hands of law enforcement officials.

What the attorney general will lay out today is the frustration and the roadblocks that have run into over the last five years, roadblocks that have drawn a ton of criticism from capitol hill, pretty much everywhere for not extracting the pound of flesh coming out of the financial crisis.

But he will ask for is for lawmakers to go in and change what is now capped.

It is currently capped at one point $6 million.

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