Archive for the ‘Corruption’ Category
Big Pharma’s Dirty Tricks
From LewRockwell.com
As a sobering example of how members of Congress can be spoon-fed the views and even the exact words of high-powered lobbying firms, consider remarks inserted into the Congressional Record after the debate and vote on health care reform in the House.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in ...Read more.
ACORN New Orleans Offices Raided
From NOLA.com
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served a search warrant at the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office.
Michael DeMocker / The Times-PicayuneInvestigators with the State Attorney General’s Office seize computers from the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Blvd. on Friday, November 6, 2009.Investigators in khaki pants and polo ...Read more.
Stimulus Bill Money Spent on $3.4 Million Tunnel for Florida Turtles
From Death by 1000 Paper Cuts
Remember when the Obama administration claimed that the Stimulus Bill needed to be passed with utmost speed and that the bill would bring critical jobs that would help rebuild or improve our crumbling infrastructure? The Washington Examiner published an article highlighting the “questionable” projects funded by the Stimulus bill, which, ...Read more.
The Welfare State Corrupts Absolutely
From The Freeman
Let’s begin at the beginning. Medical care is not a free good found in nature. Of course, no one really thinks it is. But that doesn’t keep most people from wanting to pretend otherwise, and the current institutional setting makes that possible. After a while, one forgets one is pretending. Yet medical care ...Read more.
Madoff Rips SEC, Calls Shapiro a “Dear Friend”
From The Wall Street Journal
Tonight the Inspector General of the Securities & Exchange Commission gives us Bernie Madoff in his own words — A jailhouse interview that Madoff granted to the SEC’s watchdog during his stay at Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on June 17.
Madoff spent much of the interview slamming the SEC: “Everything ...Read more.
Dozens in Congress Under Ethics Inquiry
From The Washington Post
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
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The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, ...Read more.
Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime
From CBS News
(CBS) Of all the problems facing the United States right now, none are more important than health care.
President Obama says rising costs are driving huge federal budget deficits that imperil our future, and that there is enough waste and fraud in the system to pay for health care reform if it ...Read more.
Stimulus Contracts Go to Companies Under Criminal Investigation
From ProPublica.com
The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.
According to Air Force documents, the companies claimed to be small, minority-owned businesses, which allowed them to gain special preference in bidding for government contracts. But investigators found ...Read more.
US Joins Ranks Of Failed States
From VDARE.com
The US has every characteristic of a failed state.
The US government’s current operating budget is dependent on foreign financing and money creation.
Too politically weak to be able to advance its interests through diplomacy, the US relies on terrorism and military aggression.
Costs ...Read more.
US Treasury Controlled by Wall Street
From LewRockwell.com
Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms.
The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for ...Read more.
