Nobody is entitled to be paid twice for the same risk and reap what amounts to a windfall profit by quite literally engineering a multi-billion dollar transfer of funds from the Taxpayer to the firm!
A public radio reporter visiting a VA hospital earlier this week to work on a story about veterans’ healthcare was stopped by government officials mid-interview, ordered to leave the hospital and had some of his recording equipment confiscated.
In 2007, assistant police chief Tracy Montgomery wrote, “Dave Barnes is a repeat offender and it is my hope that his specific conduct be addressed formally, rather than informally...Mark my words, if Dave is dealt with, others will think twice about
An panel that reviews possible ethical lapses by members of the House of Representatives launched a preliminary review of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s efforts to be appointed to the US Senate by ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
A Colorado man who works for Evangelical group Focus on the Family has been arrested after he solicited sex online from an investigator posing as a teenage girl, police have said. “Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42,
A House subcommittee wants to legalize payday loans with interest rates of up to 391%. Lobbyists from the payday industry bought Congress' support by showering influential members, including Chairman Luiz Gutierrez, with campaign cash.
"Arizona resident Doug Hester was intrigued by the articles I’ve been writing about photographers getting harassed at the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse in Phoenix, so he grabbed a video camera and decided to check it out for himself...*
Impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested in December on charges of conspiracy and fraud, was indicted Thursday on 16 felony counts by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney's office said.
An indictment is expected as early as Thursday charging ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with presiding over state government awash in political corruption.
The indictment U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald is expected to produce would replace
I have maintained for some time that taxation is government’s most criminal enterprise and that it is, in fact, a form of slavery. Yet it continues to baffle me that so many people cannot or will not see the obvious truth in these statements and ins
They are taking more of your quarters every day. And Chicagoans are in revolt. While some are saying enough by avoiding them, others are taking out their frustrations on the parking meters - literally! (Radar gets a mention too)
The top drug prosecutor, two police officers, and a retired circuit court judge in Wayne County, Michigan will be arraigned today on charges that they suborned (or in the judge’s case, knowingly allowed) perjury in a case against two alleged cocaine
The headline in today’s New York Times’ article sums up perfectly why so many cops feel threatened by photographers: "When Evidence From Surveillance Cameras Leads to Charges Against Officers."
According to NY state health records obtained by Policeabuse.com, the Shore Winds has nearly double the number of health code violations to that of other nursing homes in New York (compared to the state wide average).
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"It's over — we're officially, royally fucked." MATT TAIBBI for Rolling Stone - The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution
The federal bank bailouts may be giving new meaning to the term "kickback." Many of the banks rescued last year with taxpayer money have contributed to the campaign coffers of some politicians who approved the bailouts, according to recent
Five Clay County officials, including the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers were arrested Thursday after they were indicted on federal charges
• International Herald Tribune (Global Edition NYT)
Having already reduced the key interest rate it controls nearly to zero, the central bank has increasingly turned to alternatives like buying securities as a way of getting more dollars into the economy, a tactic that amounts to creating vast new sum
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's eight-year struggle to convince the U.S. Senate to end Congress' "stealth" pay raise system, which grants senators and representatives an automatic cost-of-living raise each year.
But the deepeni
Cloaked in a bogus State Secret defense, our government won't let us know any details of the new US copyright law. But the UK newspapers seem to know...
A confidential memo obtained by Wikileaks shows that not only has the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission created an insider trading loophole big enough to drive a truck through, but that Wall Street is taking full advantage of it,
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