All Posts Tagged With: "Corruption"
Mine Explosion In West Virginia Leaves 25 Dead, 4 Missing
A terrible tragedy has occurred in West Virginia:
The death toll from a blast at a West Virginia coal mine rose to 25 on Tuesday, federal safety officials said, making it the worst mining accident in the United States in 25 years.
Four miners were still missing, and the officials said it was likely that those men [...]
State Republicans Defend The Employee Pay Scandal
Last week, the News Journal published an article on the abuse of legislative perks by the GOP in the General Assembly. Among the revelations were that the GOP majority paid political consultants out of taxpayer funds, including one consultant who never showed up for work.
Today in a letter to the editor, House Minority Leader [...]
Your Taxpayer Dollars At Work
What’s a good use of taxpayer dollars? It’s paying for prostitutes for Blackwater mercenaries, of course.
11Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
New Rules May Bar Lobbyist From Advisory Boards
I’m not sure why there hasn’t been more comment from the Obama administration on this:
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street’s influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts.
The new [...]
WaPo Sells Access
Big story broken by Politico today. The Washington Post is offering lobbyists access to the powerful (for a small fee, of course):
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and [...]
Secret Government in Session in Dover
Nancy Cook and the Joint Finance Committee began its budget markup yesterday, free, for hopefully the last time, from the disinfectant of sunshine.
Virtually all of it took place behind closed doors, according to the News-Journal’s J. L. Miller.
Allegedly an ‘Orientation’ session, as if 12 veteran legislators with decades of JFC experience required any orientation whatsoever, [...]
Rogue Financier U. S. Drug Informant?
The (UK) Independent reports that Texas billionaire ‘Sir’ Allen Stanford may have been an anti-drug informant for the American Drug Enforcement Agency for a decade and, in return, Stanford was given official government protection to run his scam banking empire free of government oversight.
A BBC Panorama programme, to be screened tonight, alleges that the 6ft [...]
Jeff Montgomery’s ‘Must-Read’ on Harrington and the Delaware State Fair
El Somnambulo believes that nothing demonstrates the moral and ethical decay at the core of the ‘Delaware Way’ more than the cozy relationships between the Delaware State Fair/Harrington Raceway and the state’s political powerbrokers.
In today’s News-Journal, Jeff Montgomery writes an essential investigative piece outlining what’s there once the rocks are lifted. It is must-reading for [...]
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