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Corruption

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San Diego Union Tribune

Participants included CIA agents, lobbyists, defense contractors and, occasionally, staffers and members of Congress. The cigars included the best that could be bought from Fidel Castro's Cuba. Some of the players arrived in Mercedes-Benz limousi

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Associated Press

A former aide to Rep. William Jefferson was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for his role in a bribery scandal. Brett Pfeffer is cooperating in an ongoing probe and may be eligible for a sentence reduction afterward, a prosecutor said.

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Associated Press

President Bush stepped into his Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a lawmaker's office be sealed for 45 days [until after the primaries]. The president direct

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Associated Press

Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud in a case born from one of the biggest business scandals in US history. The verdict put the blame for the demise of what was o

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Reuters

Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, the securities class action law firm indicted last week on fraud charges stemming from corporate lawsuits it filed, made large political contributions almost exclusively to Democrats since 1999, records show.

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Reuters

The US Air Force's highest-ranking officer and his predecessor are the subjects of an FBI investigation into the handling of a $49.9 million dollar contract for the Thunderbirds, an air demonstration squadron. Allegations that Gen. Michael Mosel

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Tom Dispatch (thanks Mark Y.)

Recently, a number—one billion—in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. "Reflecting Absence," the memorial to the dead in the attack on the World Trade Center, is projected to cost a billion dollars and rising.

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Associated Press

An inspector general is investigating Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson's comments to a business group that he rejected an advertising contract because the contractor had criticized President Bush.

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Daily Kos

While Jack Abramoff's scandalous rip-off of Indian tribes is well known, his role as a GOP fixer for NSA and CIA contractors has gone virtually under the radar screen. Abramoff's lobbying activities raise serious questions about the role of

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