Bribes

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• Swine Flu Bribe

  
  Barb's Blog — Authority: 129
  From WNDWorld Health Organization scientists are suspected of accepting secret bribes from vaccine manufacturers to influence the U.N. organization’s H1N1 pandemic declaration, according to Danish and Swedish newspapers.While we wait to find out if the TRUTH will ever get out on that one……Meanwhile, ...
  8 hours ago

• Insurer Bribed State Officials for 17 Years, Insurance Superindendent Charges

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Phenix Fire Insurance Company evaded state investigation for the past 17 years by bribing former officials of the New York State Insurance Department with "loans," the departments superintendent, William H. Hotchkiss, says.
  1 day ago

• Not Again!

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 588
  Why? (thunk) Why? (thunk) Why? (thunk) That was my head hitting the desk. You know…. Alaska used to be pristine wilderness, the Last Frontier, North to the Future, land of opportunity, giant cabbages, panning for gold, dogs mushing, eagles soaring, salmon leaping, bears frolicking, and when people thought of Alaska ...
  4 days ago

• SOCIALIZED MEDICINE DAILY DIGEST FOR 12/03/09

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Obamacare: How the Unions are "Getting Well" Townhall.com ^ | 12/3/2009 | Howard Rich Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:52:56 AM by Nachum It’s already being called the “Second Louisiana Purchase,” but the sad truth is that a controversial payoff to U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s home state of Louisiana is among ...
  4 days ago

• FBI Busts Another Corrupt Court Collateral

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 627
  A 65 year old man was charged in a Bill of Information with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and with conspiracy for allegedly accepting or extorting bribes from individuals with pending criminal charges in the Baton Rouge City Court and the 19th Judicial District Court and then ...
  6 days ago

• Court grants bail to Orissa journalist

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Cuttack, Dec 1 (IANS) The Orissa High Court Tuesday granted conditional bail to a journalist who was arrested by state police in September for indulging in anti- government activities, a lawyer said.Laxman Choudhury, a reporter with Oriya daily Sambad, was arrested Sep 21 from Mohana area in Gajapati district after a ...
  1 week ago

• Democrats readying bribes to get 60 votes on health care reform

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 567
  Let the bribes begin! Health care debate begins today at 3pm in the U.S. Senate. There was probably a time (likely before I was born) when our lawmakers weren’t so blatant and open about bribing for votes. In some ways it is refreshing (at least they are open about it). Mostly it is just sickening. Details of the ...
  1 week ago

• Thankful for Obama

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Obama juggernaut is fragmenting upon the jagged outcroppings of American popular resistance. Yes, his health care catastrophe might just pass Congress. Accounting gimmickry, rhetorical appeals to Americans most decent moral impulses, and $300 million bribes will do that for even the worst legislation. But the ...
  1 week ago

• The unforgettable turkeys of 2009

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As we gather round the Thanksgiving table, bow our heads in prayer and feast on the holiday bird, it is only fitting to take a moment to fete the unforgettable turkeys of 2009. The stimulus: Back in February, I wrote that if the trillion-dollar stimulus plan were a Thanksgiving dinner entree, it would be a ...
  1 week ago

• Did probes take deadly toll on Scott?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  We may never know what drove Chicago School Board President Michael Scott to take his life. At the time of his death, Scott had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury looking into the admissions practices at Chicagos selective-enrollment schools. As a member of Mayor Daleys failed Olympic bid team, he also came under ...
  2 weeks ago

• Building inspector charged with taking bribes after finding asbestos

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 136
  Michael Cease, an inspector for the Department of Environment in Chicago, Illinois, has been charged with taking over $1,000 in bribes from a property owner. Chicago’s inspector general and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered that Cease had told a property owner that asbestos had been found in one ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Are White Collar Crimes?

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 156
  Even in their pen house apartments, far above the general working class, executives of large corporations and Wall Street brokers seem to be far from living a “sin-free” life. More and more big name executives, like Bernie Madoff, are finding themselves behind bars. While it is unlikely that they will ransack a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Europe rocked by fresh match-fixing scandal

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 156
  European football braced on Friday for more details on a fresh match-fixing scandal reportedly involving huge sums of money placed with Asian bookmakers on suspect matches in nine countries. Police across Europe carried out raids and arrests on Thursday, with German prosecutors suspecting that players, coaches, ...
  2 weeks ago

• DynCorp International And Bribery

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  DynCorp International self reported a possible violation of U.S. bribery laws related to one contract. Bribes have been a problem in defense...
  2 weeks ago

• Salary, corruption & accountability

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  They are called “Public Servants”, for they are expected to serve the public. But what is being done in the name of serving the public is not even an “open secret”, it is available live on electronic media. Everyday we see some or the other so... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  2 weeks ago

• Location bloody location

  
  subMedia — Authority: 117
  First of all, I’m shocked to find out from Stim that “Izzy” was Asper’s nickname. Because that was my nickname as a child from the paternal side of the family. Coincidence? Yes, totally. Incidentally, Comcast is planning to soon bulk up by taking over NBC-Universal . And you thought it was going to end with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why play all of these incredibly stupid games with interest rates?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  The Federal Reserve should immediately raise the Federal Funds Rate to 5.25% where it was in August 2007 in one single move and should raise the Federal Discount Rate to 5.00%. Just do it and get it back to where interest rates belong and where they have almost always been historically. Real interest rates need to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate On Healthcare, Katrina Payback, Afghani Corruption, Terrorists On Trial

  
  Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum — Authority: 127
  Today Senator Reid presented the Senate version of the Healthcare bill. This is an excerpt from CNN Money today. “Senate’s health care bill cost: $849 billion Congressional Budget Office says the Senate’s version of the the health care overhaul would cost $849 billion over 10 years and would cut the deficit ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghan minister’s $30m bribery allegations worsens Karzai’s corruption woes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Kabul, Nov. 18 (ANI): A minister in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s cabinet has been accused of accepting roughly 30-million-dollar bribe to award the country’s largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, a US official has claimed.The Washington Post quoted the US official as saying that there is a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sex, Coed, FBI & Sheriff’s Deputies Corruption & Deals to Erase Criminal Records

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 171
  Guilford County, NC Sheriff Deputies under the direction of a felon work out a deal to erase the criminal record of a UNC coed if she sexually induces an innocent victim with knowledge of public corruption into a trap where he would be neutralized. The question is why the FBI allowed access to their computers by a ...
  3 weeks ago

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