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April 25, 2012 | | HOT SEAT Confident, deliberate, and combative. Rupert Murdoch faced the Leveson Inquiry, denying that he had influenced British officials. The Daily Beast’s Mike Giglio reports on the media mogul’s questioning. ULTIMATE SWING STATE Mitt Romney may have taken all five states on Tuesday night, but President Obama will easily win those states in November—except for one: Pennsylvania, where the president will have to fight to survive. The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky on the coming battle for the Keystone State. Scandal Of the dozen Secret Service members implicated in the Colombian prostitution scandal, three appear to have survived. The Secret Service announced yesterday that three employees would remain, six have resigned, two have been dismissed, and one has retired. But the inquiry is revealing a more complicated story than it initially seemed. While some Secret Service members knowingly took prostitutes back to their rooms, officials tell The New York Times that one officer wasn't aware the woman was a prostitute, and told her to leave when he found out. Another took home a woman who wasn't a prostitute at all. One official says Secret Service rules for misconduct are “kind of vague” when it comes to picking up women in a foreign country. “They said they would have to get back to us on that, and they haven’t.” Cruel Hospitals in Minnesota—and possibly across the country—have reached a new low in their debt-collection practices by employing collectors in emergency rooms and elsewhere to badger patients into paying up. The Minnesota attorney general revealed that Accretive Health, one of the nation's largest collectors of medical debt, regularly embedded debt collectors among hospital employees. The collectors, who looked like regular employees and sometimes had access to patients’ medical files, would demand payment before patients received treatment and sometimes discouraged them from getting emergency care at all. Found! The $1.6 billion that went missing from the brokerage firm MF Global last year was said to be located on Tuesday, though the investigator looking into the case said it would be difficult to return the money to the firm’s clients. A trustee told the Senate Banking Committee that the money that went mysteriously missing was traced, but it would be difficult to determine where the blame lays on how it was misappropriated and how to recover it. The financial disaster in 2011 sparked panic in European markets and led to great public shame for former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine. It was discovered that the firm tapped clients’ money for separate ventures without replacing it over time. | | 
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