Political corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government.
All forms of government are susceptible to political corruption. Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. While corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and trafficking, it is not restricted to these organized crime activities. In some nations, corruption is so common that it has gained normative status. The end point of political corruption is a kleptocracy, literally "rule by thieves".
Bribery around the world is estimated at about $1 trillion and the on the bottom billion people living in extreme poverty.
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News PapaDoc Bush Magic: Judge Bars Testimony Relating to Carlyle Group
2-6-10
MichiganCitizen.com/ & EconomicPolicyJournal.com
This is why you have Papa Bush as an adviser. Bad things disappear or are never brought up. Economic Policy Journal
News CIA Agents Moonlight for Goldman Sachs
2-6-10
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
As players blend and blur their roles across organizations, the boundaries and purposes of those organizations also blend and blur.
News Alabama Anti-Gambling Task-Force Chief Wins Jackpot, Resigns. Then Things Get Weird.
02-03-2010
Deceiver (h/t The Agitator)
David Barber, the appointed head of the Alabama Task Force on Illegal Gambling, won a jackpot gambling in Mississippi. So while hes fighting gambling in Alabama, trying to keep it illegal, hes popping over the border for some quick cash.
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News T.A.R.P. Suckler: BofA's Banker Bonus Pool for 2009 is $4 Billion
2-3-10
online.WSJ.com
Bank of America Corp. approved more than $4 billion in 2009 pay for its investment bankers and traders, meaning those workers will collect an average of $300,000 to $500,000 for the year, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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News AIG plans to pay $100 million in another round of bonuses
02-02-2010
Washington Post
American International Group plans Wednesday to pay another round of employee bonuses, worth about $100 million, said several people familiar with the matter, a year after similar payments at the bailed-out insurance giant infuriated many Americans a
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News Curious and Curiouser: Where did Blackrock get the money?
2-2-10
ZeroHedge.com
You can't leverage yourself 164 times legally in any form or fashion in the United States, and such a margin, assuming you came up with some way to do it, would make all of the firms that blew up in 2008 and 2009 look like pikers...
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News You just gotta love Arizona politician$
01-31-2010
Arizona Republic
A Phoenix real-estate broker filled a vacancy on the City Council, and ever since, he's championed moving the planned Loop 202 extension south, from Ahwatukee Foothills to the Gila River Reservation. His development deals along the freeway blur
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News Arrested TSA worker asked girl to be his sex slave
01-31-2010
Raw Story
A Transportation Security Administration employee in Florida is behind bars this weekend after a 15-year-old girl claimed he groped her and asked if she would be his "sex slave," according to published reports.
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News Her Royal Speak Pelosi Hits Taxpayers with Thousands in Babysitting, Travel Bills
01-30-2010
Mondo Frazier
Judicial Watch has discovered that Nancy Pelosi stuck taxpayers with the bills for babysitting and flying her kids and grandkids across the country. Doug Ross found that she used the military to do it even when no congressional representatives were
Opinion Wellness
Excitotoxin what are they?
01-29-2010 Jeneen Zucker
If someone were to tell you that chemicals added to the food could cause brain damage in your children, and these chemicals could effect how your childrens nervous system formed during development
News Geithner draws fire defending Fed on AIG bailout
01-27-2010
AP
Democrats and Republicans alike pummeled Treasury Secretary Geithner over his role in the $180 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG, venting public anger over Wall Street's return to prosperity while unemployment stands at 10%.
News Former Fed Prosecutor and AG Candidate Accused of Stealing from Glock, Inc.
01-27-2010
www.lawofficer.com
ATLANTA - A former federal prosecutor hired by gun manufacturer Glock to investigate fraud within the company has been accused of stealing about $3 million from the gunmaker.
News An Investigator Presses to Uncover Bailout Abuse
01-25-2010
NY Times
Neil M. Barofsky is not a household name like some special investigators of the past Kenneth Starr during the Clinton administration or Archibald Cox in the Watergate years.
News SEC mulled national security status for AIG details
01-25-2010
Reuters
US securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve's bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reut
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News Johnson & Johnson Widens Recall of Smelly Over-the Counter Drugs
01-24-2010
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Big Pharma endlessly push their drugs as miracles. Then FDA and Big Pharma play musical chairs. This system is chronically flawed. Our bodys have a natural renewal system, our own Adult Stem Cells. www.HealthGa
Feature Article Sociopaths: They See Us as Prey Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Sociopaths have always been with us. Without conscience themselves they lie without compunction, kill to achieve their ends. Now, we can identify all of them, those in government, in corporations, and those poised to destroy us personally.
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News Lawsuit: NYPD routinely arrests students for non-crimes
01-21-2010
RawStory.com
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by five students in the New York City school system against the NYPD paints a picture of school officers who routinely abuse students and arrest them for non-criminal activities.
News Sheriff Joe's Enabler
01-20-2010
Reason Magazine
"Andy Thomas has a reckless streak to him," says Clint Bolick, director of constitutional studies for the Goldwater Institute, Arizona's largest right-leaning think tank. "He's willing to use law enforcement tools in ways that are pretty blatant abus
News Ron Branson, founder of JAIL4Judges.org, has just been released from imprisonment.
01-19-2010
Vimeo.com
Just before going in, he sat before a television camera and spoke about his forthcoming incarceration. He was convicted of driving without a driver's license, however, he was prevented from putting on his own defense as to why the charge was brought
News Arizona Governor Proposes Ballot Measure to Save Speed Cameras
01-16-2010
The Newspaper
In a surprise move, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) took a step to save the freeway speed camera program imposed by her predecessor, Janet Napolitano (D), the current US Secretary of Homeland Security. On Friday, Brewer proposed a Fiscal Year 2011 bu
News The Fed is a Ponzi Scheme by Alan Adaschik
01-16-2010
ConstitutionForum.us via e-mail
The Federal Reserve Bank truly is a den of thieves and con artists who have stolen the wealth and prosperity of an entire nation.
News Michael Chertoff's Pushing "Full-Body Scanners", Has a Conflict of Interest... $$$$$$$
01-15-2010
www.opednews.com
What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. The relationship drew attention after Chertoff disclosed it on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a
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News TSA lies again about what the strip-search machines see
01-14-2010
Papers Please
Already this week the TSA was caught in a lie about what it likes to call whole body imaging (virtual strip search) machines, when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents showing that, despite TSA claims that this state-o
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News Chicagos Real Crime Story
01-14-2010
City Journal
Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots change, he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate peoples
News Geithner's AIG E-Mails, Phone Logs Subpoenaed by House Panel
01-14-2010
AP
Congress' subpoena served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, seeking "all documents" relating to payments that American International Group Inc., made to other financial institutions from federal bailout funds.
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News Arizona Concert Promoter Accused in Ponzi Scheme
01-13-2010
Mark Carlson & Bob Christie AP
PHOENIX -- A suburban Phoenix concert promoter has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked approximately 140 investors out of $25 million, federal authorities said Thursday.
News Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets. Does this shock anyone?
01-12-2010
Bloomberg.com
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan will decide whether the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
News Former AIG chief takes shot at Goldman Sachs
01-10-2010
Reuters
The former head of American International Group Inc is urging a closer look at the actions of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, claiming the investment bank contributed to the insurer's near-collapse, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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News The Chicago Board of Trades Role in Corrupting Courts Part II
Breaking News January 7, 2010
01072010
http://www.stewwebb.com/The_Chicago_Board_of_Trade
The Chicago Board of Trades Role in Corrupting Courts Part II
Breaking News January 7, 2010
http://www.stewwebb.com
By Stew Webb
Federal Whistleblower
stewwebb@stewwebb.com
The first installment in this investigative series sparke
Stew Webb
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Headlines: PapaDoc Bush Magic: Judge Bars Testimony Relating to Carlyle Group -- CIA Agents Moonlight for Goldman Sachs -- Alabama Anti-Gambling Task-Force Chief Wins Jackpot, Resigns. Then Things Get Weird. -- T.A.R.P. Suckler: BofA's Banker Bonus Pool for 2009 is $4 Billion
-- 1.6 Million Dollars of Tax Payer Money Being Spent to POISON CHILDREN! -- AIG plans to pay $100 million in another round of bonuses -- Curious and Curiouser: Where did Blackrock get the money? -- You just gotta love Arizona politician$ -- Arrested TSA worker asked girl to be his sex slave -- Her Royal Speak Pelosi Hits Taxpayers with Thousands in Babysitting, Travel Bills -- Excitotoxin what are they? -- Geithner draws fire defending Fed on AIG bailout -- Former Fed Prosecutor and AG Candidate Accused of Stealing from Glock, Inc. -- An Investigator Presses to Uncover Bailout Abuse -- SEC mulled national security status for AIG details -- Johnson & Johnson Widens Recall of Smelly Over-the Counter Drugs -- Sociopaths: They See Us as Prey -- Lawsuit: NYPD routinely arrests students for non-crimes -- Sheriff Joe's Enabler -- Ron Branson, founder of JAIL4Judges.org, has just been released from imprisonment. -- Arizona Governor Proposes Ballot Measure to Save Speed Cameras -- The Fed is a Ponzi Scheme by Alan Adaschik -- Michael Chertoff's Pushing "Full-Body Scanners", Has a Conflict of Interest... $$$$$$$ -- TSA lies again about what the strip-search machines see -- Chicagos Real Crime Story -- Geithner's AIG E-Mails, Phone Logs Subpoenaed by House Panel -- Arizona Concert Promoter Accused in Ponzi Scheme -- Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets. Does this shock anyone? -- Former AIG chief takes shot at Goldman Sachs -- The Chicago Board of Trades Role in Corrupting Courts Part II
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