In a significant development, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, faced a substantial $20 million lawsuit from a former vice president, Hamdan Azhar. Azhar alleges that he was unjustly dismissed after voicing objections to what he described as "illegal self-dealing" and was forced to halt the development of a search engine designed to monitor client discussions related to illicit investments. Azhar's allegations raise several critical questions about corporate governance, ethics, and ...