Texas oil billionaire Oscar Wyatt, who in the mid-1990's was involved in a land dispute with a group of agencies in Utah, faces up to two years in prison after pleading guilty to paying an illegal kickback to the regime of late Iraqi leader Sadda
Defense contractor Brent Wilkes hosted fancy dinner parties and chartered jets for powerful members of Congress while his company was racking up more than $100 million in government contracts. The lawmakers who enjoyed the largess were often the same
Did you know that every leading branch of government including the State Department, Attorney General, US Treasury, IRS, Reno's Justice Dept., FBI, representatives from the UN and Senior White House aides along with the head of the IRS's Exem
While waiting to be confirmed by the White House for a top civilian post at the Air Force last year, Charles D. Riechers was out of work and wanted a paycheck. So the Air Force helped arrange a job through an intelligence contractor that required
Aides to State Dept Inspector General Howard Krongard threatened two investigators with retaliation this week if they cooperate with a congressional probe into Krongard's office, the chairman of a House of Rep panel and other officials
A Missouri motorist who recorded a St. George cop's threats to falsify charges against him in order to throw him in jail & teach him a lesson, is now being hounded & harrassed by other area cops after his videotape resulted in the first officer**
Corruption in the Iraqi government -- it's classified information. So says the State Dept. In preparation for a Sept 27 hearing on corruption within the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Rep. Henry Waxman, who chairs the House gover
When Darrow walked outside, he noticed two officers sitting in a marked squad car, numbered 65. "As I got into the car, he started to pull up the street and he and his partner just stared me down," Darrow explained.
Rather than calling for medical help, police first tasered then shot to death a non-responsive accident victim with burns and blood over much of his body while sitting in a 'catatonic state' along the side of the road.
More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans: The Department of Veterans Affairs, May 2007, Gulf War Veterans Information System reports the following:Total U.S. Military Gulf War Deaths: 73,846 – Deaths amongst Deployed: 17,847 – Deaths am
All through history there have been those who were recruited to work undercover, making their money by selling out freedom. Meet the traitor to freedom who began working for the corporatists in the 60s and is still whoring for them today, Phyllis Sc
The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.
Here's is the 82 page sensitive but unclassified report on corruption in the Iraqi government. I love the executive summary. "Currently, Iraq is not capable of even rudimentary enforcement of anticorruption laws". There you have it
The Kuwaiti company building the US embassy in Baghdad has been accused of agreeing to pay $200,000 in kickbacks in return for two unrelated Army contracts in Iraq. The scheme, outlined in a now-sealed court document obtained by the AP
Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethnics in Washington(CREW) released its third annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress entitled Beyond Delay: The 22 most corrupt members of Congress (and two to watch).
Howard J. Krongrad, the State Dept's inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, including construction of the US Embassy in Baghdad, and censored reports that might prove
Defense lawyers have subpoenaed several members of Congress, of both parties, to tesitfy in an upcoming trial of one of the men accused of bribing a former California congressmen, people close to the House Appropriations Committee(Looks like they are
Thomas Jensen, 68, of Braintree, said the state broke a contract with him and everyone else who bought tokens by refusing to accept them after January of last year. ‘‘I gave the state of New Hampshire money for the tokens, and I expect to be able to
Ten years after Congress ordered federal agencies to have outside auditors review their book, neither the Defense Dept not the newe Dept of Homeland Security has met even basic accounting requirements,(Do as we say, not as we do.)
Former VECO Corp. CEO Bill Allen testified in the federal trail of former Alaska House Speaker Pete Kott Thursday that he bribed three lawmakers, including the son of GOP Senator Ted Stevens, the Washington Post reports.
The election of Phil Gordon reminded me of Abraham Lincoln as he stated “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” However, Phil “Cash” Gordon is proof positive that you can actually fool 78% of the people all the time
FBI agents arrested 11 public officials in towns across New Jersey Thursday on charges of taking bribes in exchange for influencing the awarding of public contracts, the US Attorney's Office said. (Hmm, what about the White House)
"Criminals will violate the law, whether it’s a gun law or an anti-corruption law. If this keeps up, they’re going to have to build a new federal prison in New Jersey just to house all the public officials who have wrongly figured they are above
House Homeland Security Committee aides say they are being stonewalled by the Homeland Security Dept over their requests for information on an apparent no-bid contract, arousing suspicions that something wrong is being covered up.
Two of GOP Rep. John Doolittle's top aides have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating ties between Doolittle, his wife and jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The grand jury subpoenas from the US Dist Court
Having knocked off Paul Wolfowitz as president, the forces of the status quo at the World Bank now have another target in their destructive sights: The corruption fighters at the bank's Dept of Institutional Integrity. New President Robert Zoel