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PR Executive Indicted in 'Pay to Play' Probe

Bush Tells U.S. Commissions to Report on Failures After the Election
President W. named seven people who will sit on an "independent" commission to look into intelligence failures on Iraqi weapons and told it to report in 13 months - four months after November's presidential elections.

Halliburton Faces Probe Over Nigerian 'Bribery'
Nigeria ordered an investigation into allegations that a subsidiary of the US-based Halliburton paid $180 million in bribes to win a natural gas project contract in the African nation.

The C.I.A.: Method and Madness
For decades, the U.S. intelligence community has propagated the myth that it possesses analytical methods that must be insulated pristinely from the hurly-burly world of politics. The C.I.A. has portrayed itself as, and been treated as, a sort of National Weather Service of global affairs. It has relied on this aura of scientific objectivity for its prestige, and to justify its large budgets, despite a record studded with error.

Trial Judge Worked for Firm That Acted for Monsanto
The judge in a Monsanto price-fixing trial in Chicago has been asked to remove himself from the case on conflict of interest grounds after it emerged that he previously worked for a law firm that represented Monsanto and had been listed as a lawyer for the company.

Pentagon Freezes Iraq Funds Amid Corruption Probes
The Pentagon has frozen new funds approved for Iraqi reconstruction amid growing allegations of corruption and cronyism associated with the rebuilding process.

Will the French Indict Cheney?
Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets.

Electronic Voting Firm Hacked
A company developing encryption-based software for secure electronic voting has itself become the victim of a computer break-in, the company's top executive told MSNBC.com. Federal authorities have confirmed that the incident is under investigation.

Worst Technology of 2003: Paperless Voting
Internal documents from Diebold Election Systems, which has sold more than 33,000 AccuVote DRE machines, acknowledge that there have been security flaws, although the company denies that the flaws could allow a hacker to cast multiple votes or alter the votes of others, as critics suggest.

Cheney Faces Indictment in France
A Nigerian Contract at the Heart of a Corruption Affair - Halliburton Involved in Bribery

Senator's Way to Wealth Was Paved with Favors

Halliburton Continues Extended Payday in Iraq
The U.S. military said Halliburton was allocated $222 million more for work in Iraq, at the same time as a Pentagon audit found the firm may have overbilled for some services there.

Patriots and Profits
The tangled mess of Halliburton's dealings in Iraq.

Halliburton Served Troops Dirty Food in Dirty Kitchens
The Pentagon repeatedly warned contractor Halliburton-KBR that the food it served to US troops in Iraq was "dirty," as were the kitchens it was served in.

$4 Billion Iraq Cash Has Vanished, Claims Charity
A Christian charity claims that failure of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to set up an independent auditing board to oversee spending has left a question mark over what has happened to up to $4 billion in oil and aid revenues that should have been spent on rebuilding the country.

Ashcroft Briefed Regularyly on Inquiry Into CIA Leak
Mr. Ashcroft's regular, detailed briefings suggest that he has taken a more hands-on role in the politically charged investigation than the Justice Department had acknowledged.

Halliburton Price Gouging American Taxpayers
Congressmen Waxman and Dingell reveal the prices that Halliburton has charged to import gasoline into Iraq. Oil industry experts say Halliburton's prices are "outrageously high," "a huge ripoff," and "highway robbery."

U.S. Probing Arms Shipped to Iraq
Federal agents have turned up evidence that U.S. companies may have illegally sold sensitive equipment that wound up helping Iraq's military.

Fears of More U.S. Electoral Chaos After Flaws are Discovered in Ballot Computers
An investigation published in the Independent reveals that tens of thousands of touch screen voting machines may be less reliable than the old punchcards.

Halliburton Unit in Consortium Fingered for Alleged Corruption
A consortium including a unit of Houston-based Halliburton Co. is the target of a probe alleging corruption during construction of a natural gas complex in Nigeria.

Rumsfeld's $9 Billion Slush Fund
For all the debate over President Bush's $87 billion supplemental request for military operations and economic reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, no one seems to have noticed that the sum includes a slush fund of at least $9.3 billion, which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld can spend pretty much as he pleases.

FBI Bugged Office of Philadelphia Mayor
A federal corruption investigation was inadvertently exposed when a secret listening device was discovered in the City Hall office of Mayor John F. Street.

UK: Television Journalist Who Quit Over Faked War Report is Found Hanged
The journalist resigned in July after sending a report from a nuclear submarine that falsely purported to show a cruise missile being fired at enemy forces.

Enron Seeks Millions for Power Never Delivered to Sierra Pacific
The Enron Corporation collapsed into bankruptcy proceedings after revealing that it had reported earnings that never really existed. Now, a major Nevada utility stands on the brink of a bankruptcy filing because Enron is demanding hundreds of millions of dollars of payments for electricity that it never really delivered.

Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm
The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure.

Rove Worked for Ashcroft
Deep political ties between to White House aides and Attorney General John Ashcroft have put him into a delicate position as the Justice Department begins a full investigation into whether administration officials illegally disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer.
More... 70% of Americans Call for a Special Prosecutor

Fresh Claims of Forgery Hit Alleged Kenyan Rape Victims
British investigators have sadi Kenyan police records supporting the claims were forgeries. Now an investigation in the British Army's training areas suggests many hospital records may also be forged.
[- the question is: do you trust the British government to investigate for itself the validity of claims against it?]

Strange Fruit
Guatemalan peasants murdered on Del Monte banana plantation.

Bush Insiders to Reap Billions from Iraq War
A group of businessmen linked by their close ties to President Bush, his family and his administration have set up a consulting firm to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq, including those seeking pieces of taxpayer-financed reconstruction projects.

Who Let Saudis Flee After 9/11?
In the days immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, while the airways were still closed to all other flights, Americans couldn't fly into the country but relatives of bin Laden were able to fly out.

Calls for Inquiry into Leak of CIA Agent's Identity
The White House issued a point-blank denial of claims that George Bush's chief political strategist was involved in exposing the identity of a CIA agent.

U.S. 'Had No New Evidence of WMD' in Iraq
The US launced its war with Iraq despite having no fresh intelligence that the regime of Saddam Hussein was developing mass destruction weapons or forging ties with terrorists, the leaders of the House of Representatives intelligence committee have concluded.

White House Pleads Ignorance on Outing of CIA Agent
U.S. national security adviser Condoleeza Rice said she knew "nothing of any" White House effort to leak the identity of an undercover CIA officer in July, a charge now under review at the Justice Department.

CIA Seeks Probe of White House
The Central Intelligence Agency has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of it's undercover employees in retaliation against the woman's husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush's since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa.
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'No Genuine Evidence' of Rapes by British Soldiers
Military police investigating claims that British troops raped scores of Kenyan tribeswomen over 30 years have found "no genuine evidence" of the allegations in local police records, according to British officials.

Cheney's Ties to Halliburton
A Congressional Research Service report concluded that federal ethics laws treat Vice President Cheney's annual deferred compensation checks and unexercised stock options as continuing financial interests in the Halliburton Co. contradicting Cheney's claim that he has no financial ties to Halliburton. The Houston-based energy conglomerate has been awarded more than $2 billion in contracts for rebuilding Iraq, including one worth $1.22 billion that was awarded on a noncompetitive basis.

New Voting Technology Questioned
The computerized balloting that election officials long have touted as the wave of the future is under attack from scientists and computer experts who worry that computerized voting systems are vunerable to tampering and manipulation that could easily go undetected.

Spy Scam
The outing of a CIA employee is a predictable move in the Bush government's attack on Constitutional rights.

Halliburton Crony Gets Top Iraq Energy Post
Robert E. McKee III, a former ConocoPhillips executive, has been appointed the new senior adviser to the Iraqi Oil Ministry. He's also the chairman of Enventure Global Technology, an oil venture owned by Shell and Halliburton.

Cheney Still on Halliburtons Payroll Democrats question Cheney's Halliburton payments.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former CEO of Halliburton Co., has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company since taking office while asserting he has no financial interest in the company.

U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Cheney Energy Bid A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its ruling against Vice President Cheney in his effort to keep secret the documents of his energy task force.

Democrats Focus on Halliburton 'War Profiteering'

Greenpeace Obtains Smoking-Gun Memo: White House/Exxon Link Conservative front group may have thanked White House for help in suing EPA.

French Judge Rails at 'Censoring' of Her Book on Corruption Judge accuses Western banks and multinational companies of being "at the heart of" an international network of "grand corruption."

Counterfeiter Shares an ID Fraud Tale Youssef Hmimssa tells Senate hearing on security how easy it is to fake an ID.

Brazilian Government in Battle to Free Tens of Thousands Forced into Slavery So far, inspectors have freed more than 2,000 workers from enforced labor, from more than a dozen ranches raided, mostly in the Amazon region.
Ranchers and landowners frequently lure poor desperate workers from the north-east with promises of paid labor. Instead, they are told to work in exchange for food at exorbitant prices. They can never pay back their debts for the food and then become trapped.

NHS Knew of Lethal Blood for Nine Years Scottish haemophiliacs were given contaminated American blood for nine years after health services bosses first linked the tainted supplies to hepatitis.

Two EPA Officials Take Jobs with Firms Benefiting from Air Rule Change
Days after the changes in the power-plant pollution rule were announceed, John Pemberton, the chief of staff in the EPA's air and radiation office, told colleagues he would be joining Southern Co., and Atlanta-based utility that's the nation's No. 2 power-plant polluter and was a driving force in lobbying for the rule changes. Southern Co., which gave more than $3.4 million in political contribution over the past four years while it sought the changes, hired Pemberton as director of federal affairs.
Ed Krenik, who had been the EPA's associate administrator for congressional affairs, started work Tuesday with Bracewell & Patterson, a top Houston-based law firm that coordinated lobbying for several utilities on easing the power-plant pollution rule. The firm's Washington office also served as home base and shares staff with the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which was created by several utilities, including Southern Co., to be the public voice favoring the rule changes the EPA just enacted.

White House Approved Departure of Saudis After Sept. 11, Ex-Aide Says Top White House officials personally approved the evacuation of dozens of influential Saudis,

including relatives of Osama bin Laden

Stonewall Rackauckas Judge orders DA to end secrecy over $5 million consulting deal.

Give Me Money to Protect My Paintings One of Scotland's richest men has demanded public cash for owners of historic homes to protect their works of art, following the theft of a painting from one of his castles.

GOP-Controlled Congress Stifles Investigations Here's why Special Counsels are now a thing of the past, and GOP-controlled Congress has stifled partisan inquiries.

Gulf War Veterans Sue Corporations Blaming corporation for fueling former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons program, veterans of the first Gulf War filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for illnesses affecting more than 100,000 soldiers.

Banks Helped Enron Hide Deals, Report Says Some of the world's biggest banks worked closely with executives of Enron Corp. to hide the true nature of shady transactions from Chicago's Andersen accounting firm, according to a bankruptcy-court investigation.

Out of His Skull A district attorney out of control.

Jolted Over Electronic Voting Report's security warning shakes some states' trust.

How One Hospital Benefited on Questionable Operations Untile federal agents raided Redding Medical last fall, Tenet Healthcare's business model was based on maximizing the dollars it could collect from Medicare, the nation's largest buyer of health care. And Medicare's complex formulas - the template for private insurers, as well - reward some kinds of health care more richly than others, and few more richly than cardiac care. Tenet promised investors growing profits, and at Redding that required steady growth in cardiac care.

Lifting the Lid on Spin and Dark Truths Tony Blair's future goes to court, and the entrails of his spin machine will be disected in full public view.

Banks Hid Billions to Avoid Taxes Some of the nation's biggest banks have sheltered hundreds of millions of dollars from state taxes by creating investment funds that didn't sell shares publicly but paid tax-exempt dividends to the banks.

Pfizer Moves to Stem Canadian Drug Imports Pfizer sent letters to 50 Canadian pharmacies that it believes are exporting to the United States, telling them that they would have to begin ordering their drugs directly from Pfizer, rather than from wholesalers. If Pfizer decides that the pharmacies are ordering more drugs than they need to meet Canadian demand, it will cut off or curtail shipments to them, the company said.

Blacklisting Judges Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered federal prosecutors to start collecting information on federal judges who give sentences that are lighter than those suggested by federal guidelines.

Bechtel Accuses Halliburton of Iraqi Oil Monopoly The Bechtel Group, one of the world's biggests engineering and construction companies, has dropped out of the running for a contract to rebuild the Iraqi oil industry, as other competitors have begun to conclude that the bidding process favors the one company already working in Iraq, Halliburton.

High Ranking Pentagon Official Turns Whistle Blower Former senior Pentagon Middle East specialist, Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwaitkowski, who worked in the office of Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith until her retirement in April, says, "If one is seeking the answers to why peculiar bits of 'intelligence' found sanctity in a presidential speech, or why the post-Saddam occupation has been distinguished by confusion and false steps, one need look no further than the process inside the Office of the Secretary of Defence."

Tenet Healthcare Paying $54 Million in Fraud Settlement The Tenet Healthcare Corporation agreed to pay $54 million to resolve government accusations that doctors at a hospital in Northern California conducted unnecessary heart procedures and operations on hundreds of patients.

Argentina Didn't Fall on Its Own Wall Street Pushed Debt Till the Last - Big securities firms reaped nearly $1 billion in fees from underwriting Argentine government bonds during the decade 1991-2001, and those firms' analysts were generally the ones producing the most bullish and influential reports on the country. Other factors besides optimistic analyses impelled foreigners to pour funds into Argentina with such reckless abandon as to make the eventual crash more likely and more devastating. One was Wall Street's system for rating the performance of mutual fund and pension fund managers, who were major buyers of Argentine bonds. Bizarrely, the system rewarded investing in emerging markets with the biggest debts - and Argentina was often No. 2 on that list during the 1990s.

Cancer Drugs Face Cuts in Bush Plan The administration estimates that cancer doctors, known as oncologists, made $700 million in "medicare drug profits" last year because "Medicare payments were in excess of widely available market prices." Medicare now pays 95 percent of the "average wholesale price" for many cancer drugs. But, the administration said, that price is "not defined in law or regulation." It is a list price, reported by drug companies to industry publications, and it is often much higher than what doctors actually pay. Doctors typically pay 66 percent to 87 percent of the average wholesale price, the administration said.

More Calls to Vet Electronic Voting Machines A recent report that showed touch-screen voting machines could be vunerable to hackers spurred the National Association of Secretaries of State, a majority of whose members are in charge of their states' elections, to consider whether the standards for the machines should be beefed up to prevent tampering.

What Was Behind the Pentagon's Betting Parlor? The Pentagon's screwball scheme to establish an online futures market for acts of terrorism raises questions about who is running the Pentagon, and the Bush administration.

Suit Says Machines Missed 60,000 Votes in 2000 Race The votes of as many as 60,000 people in New York City may not have been counted in the 2000 presidential election because of an adjustment made to city voting machines back in 1964.

Voting Systems 'Can't be Trusted' Florida's voting snafus during the 2000 presidential election pale in comparison to the vunerabilities of high-tech voting machines.

All Bets Are Off The so-called terrorism futures market sounded like a hoax: investors would have been able to make money from attacks and strife. Now that the red-faced Pentagon has closed down the project, it appropriate to ask, "What were they thinking?"

JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup to Pay $300 Million in Enron Accounting Case JP Morgan Chase will pay $135 million and Citigroup will pay $101 million for their roles in Enron's manipulation of its financial statements. The banks also agreed to pay $50 million total to the state and the city to settle similar charges, and Citigroup will also pay $19 million to settle SEC charges that it help Dynegy Inc. manipulate its financial statements. More...

Howard Dean to Bush: "It's Time for the Truth" "When George W. Bush ran for president three years ago, he promised us an era of responsibility in Washington - instead we've got an era of irresponsibility unparalleled in our history. A week after discovering that the cost of occupying Iraq will be double the original estimates, we found that the nation's deficit is 50 percent higher than estimated just five months ago. In fact, during his two-and-a-half years in office, the President has misled us, the American people, on nearly every policy initiative his administration has put forth."

'The Law Society is worser than a pit full of vipers' What is a domain name worth?

Computer Voting is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, according to computer security researchers.

How to Rig an Election in the United States Computer voting machines have not only led to the death of the write-in candidate, but allow progammers to steal your vote for the candidate of their choosing.

Police Official Is Charged With Fraud A top New York City police official was charged in federal court with diverting more than $110,000 from a nonprofit foundation to cover his personal bills for collect telephone calls involving prison inmates, according to court papers.

Prosecutors Investigating Suit's Claims Against Coke The Coca-Cola Company said that federal prosecutors were investigating allegations raised in a former employee's lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulent marketing and accounting.

Republican Is Sentenced for Eavesdropping The former executive director of the Virginia Republican Party was sentenced to three years probation and fined $5,000 for illegally intercepting a Democratic Party conference call.

Constitutional Ruling: Court Paves Way for New Taxes In a stunning decision the Nevada Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the Legislature needs only a simple majority to pass record tax increases to balance the state budget and fund education. The decision sets aside the state constitutional amendment requiring at least two-thirds support of lawmakers to pass tax increases. The justices ruled that the need to fund public schools, another constitutional requirement, took precedence over the need to approve tax increases by a two-thirds supermajority. [- "Think of the children!" Well, what do we need a constitution for when we have judges like these? Sounds like some judges need a taste of impeachment.]

Spoon-Feeding Poison: EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People The Bush administration is now moving to endorse the testing of noxious and lethal chemicals on human beings. Since this spring, despite rife opposition from the medical community, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly begun lifting a 1998 ban on accepting such research. Once the prohibition is gone, which will likely happen next year, chemical companies will have the full support of the federal government to dose healthy young men and women with the latest insecticides, rodenticides, and fungicides.

Ford Foundation to Keep Leader Accused of Fraud at Xerox The board of the Ford Foundation, one of the country's largest private charitable foundations, has decided to keep its chairman despite accusations by federal regulators that he participated in accounting fraud when he was chairman and chief executive of the Xerox Corporation.

Scots HIV Patients Sue Blood Firms Hundreds of Scottish haemophiliacs were infected with HIV following a conspiracy by American drug firms to sell contaminated products abroad, according to documents lodged in a US court.

Cover-Up Claim as Ministers Reveal They Knew of Court Crisis Ministers were facing claims of a cover-up after it emerged that they knew as long ago as last September that thousands of court cases were being dropped because of computer problems, but kept it quiet until after this year's election.

Downsizing: Corporate Corruption or Globalist Enslavement? Many readers who possess all the intelligence and experience needed to see conspiracy still tend to miss it when the hidden agendas are achieved through the actions of corporate America.

The Judge in the Purple Plastic Gloves Brooklyn's Democratic Party leaders - already besieged by the worst scandal in a generation over their judicial selection process - are poised to promote to the State Supreme Court a judge who has been sued for fraud and whose on-the-bench demeanor has been a frequent subject of courthouse derision.

Galloway to Face Inquiry on Iraq Fund The Glasgow Kelvin MP, George Galloway, is to face a full investigation into accusations that he used money from a charity set up to benefit an Iraqi girl to bankroll his personal political campaign in the Middle East.

Abbott to Pay $622 Million to Settle Inquiry Into Marketing The inquiry was focusing on marketing tactics in which the company gave tubes and pumps used to deliver liquid food directly into patients' digestive tracts in exchange for large orders of the liquids. Some of the hospitals and nursing homes that received the free equipment were suspected of billing Medicaid and Medicare, the government health insurance programs for the poor and the elderly, for the tubes and pumps, according to the reports.

A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/business/27WALL.html" TARGET="_blank">$1 Billion Offered to Settle Suit on I.P.O.'s Some 300 companies that sold new shares to the public during the late 1990's agreed to pay $1 billion to settle an investor lawsuit contending that the stock offerings' prices were artificially inflated.

Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by Laundered Drug Profits The history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an illegal unconstitutional entity has been most recently exposed in an unprecedented lawsuit against the CIA and its alleged drug trafficking and money laundering operations.

Inquiry Call Over Lost Election Records Opposition councillors in Renfrewshire have called for an independent investigation into how election records came to be mislaid amid allegation of vote-rigging.

Accounting at Mortgage Concern Is Under Investigation Federal Prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation into Freddie Mac, the second-largest financier of home mortgages, after the company fired its president for failing to cooperate with an internal investigation into its accounting. The company also disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission had opened a formal investigation into it.

Housing Authority: Files stolen from agency office in Las Vegas Files were stolen from the Las Vegas Housing Authority just days before the federal government released a report that found "significant deficiencies" in the way the agency handled contracts and public monies.

Big Drug Company Says It May Face Obstruction Case Federal prosecutors are examining whether Schering-Plough employees destroyed documents related to an investigation into the company's marketing practices.

Treffinger Pleads Guilty to Corruption James W. Treffinger, the former head of Essex County, pled guilty to several of the corruption charges that cut short his political career last year. Just days before his trial, Mr. Treffinger pleaded guilty in Federal District Court to two charges in the 20-count indictment brought against him in October: one count of obstruction of justice and a count of mail fraud. He admitted that he had solicited an illegal $15,000 campaign contribution from a company in exchange for a county contract, and had hired two people in county jobs who instead worked exclusively on his political campaign. Mr. Treffinger also said that he had directed efforts by others to create a fake paper trail aimed at covering up the campaign contribution, its connection with the awarding of the contract and the hirings.

Enron Used U.S. Government to Bully Developing Nations Defunct energy giantEnron used the U.S. government to coerce the World Bank and poor nations to grant concessions and resolve its investment problems, according to documents and correspondence released by the Treasury Department. Enron, a bankrupt company that allegedly paid no taxes in the 15 years before it went broke in 2001 - despite earning billions of dollars in declared profits - regularly and aggressively called on staff from Treasury, the State Department, the office of U.S. Trade Representatve and the World Bank to meed with foreign officials to favorably resolve its problems and disputes with their governments.

Failure is Good if You're a 'Fat Cat' Despite the growing furore over so-called rewards-for-failure culture, in which boardroom "fat cats" get fatter regardless of their performance, recent reports of its demise are somewhat premature.

Company Sues MasterCard Over Fees for Online Sales Paycom Billing Services, a company that processes credit card and check transactions for online merchants, sued MasterCard International, asserting that it violated antitrust laws and charged excessive fees.

F.C.C. Prepares to Loosen Rules on Media Ownership The proposed changes would allow networks to own enough local TV stations to reach 90 percent of the nation's viewers.

FCC Secretly Allowing Monopolizing of the Media "Most people in this country have no idea what's about to happen to them even though their very democracy is at stake." - Jonathan Adelstein

The Two Faces of Rumsfeld Donald Rumsfeld, the US defense secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons.

Bush Delays 9/11 Report, Graham Says The only reason that delay has occurred is because the administration does not want our report to be available to the American people," said Graham, Florida's senior senator and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception Jayson Blair committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times Journalists has found. [- So, we are we still to trust the paper that sets the trend for all others - "all the news that's fit to print?"]

Halliburton Admits Giving Bribes in Nigeria The Houston based company said it discovered during an audit that one of its foreign subsidiaries operating in Nigeria paid $2.4 million to an entity owned by a Nigerian national in order to get favorable tax treatment.

Cheney's Halliburton Will Pump Iraq's Oil Halliburton Co.'s emergency, no-bid contract to work on Iraq's oil wells must be fully disclosed, a Democratic lawmaker says, pointing to the Army's admission that the company has a far more lucrative role than originally believed. Prior descriptions said Vice President Dick Cheney's former company would fight oil fires. The contract also lets the company operate the oil fields for a time and distribute the petroleum, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said. Waxman cited information he recieved from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which awarded the contract.

Bush Official Subpoenaed in Securities Fraud Probe White House budget director Mitch Daniels has been subpoenaed in a lawsuit accusing him and other former IPALCO Enterprises directors of dumping millions of dollars in stock before the utility company was sold.

FBI Takes Up Heavy Load of Corporate Fraud Probes The FBI is opening three to five investigations a month of suspected fraud of $100 million or more by executives at publicly traded companies, a pace that indicates the scandals that have rocked corporate America for the past 18 months show no signs of abating.

Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on Foreigners The data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.

Inside Job: A Lawyer's Nightmare

Judge Questions Bush Request to Halt Cheney Suit Appeals Judges Harry Edwards and David Tatel suggested the White House had no legal basis for asking them to block a lower court judge from letting the case proceed.

Investigation of Judge Touched Off Wider Inquiry A New York State Supreme Court judge in Brooklyn and five other men were arraigned on charges that they ran a bribery scheme to rig the outcome of divorce and child custody cases.

The Class Action Unfairness Act The Senate is barreling ahead on legislation that would undermine the ability of Americans to win redress in the courts for corporate misconduct.

Bayer Agrees to Pay U.S. $257 Million in Drug Fraud In the largest ever Medicaid fraud settlement, Bayer pleaded guilty to engaging in a scheme to overcharge for the antibiotic Cipro.

2 Veteran M.T.A. Officials Fired in December in Bribery Inquiry Two executives of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority were quietly dismissed on evidence that they took bribes to allow contractors to submit fake bills.

Executive Pay Rises as Markets Tumble Times are tough, but the top brass at some of the biggest companies on the stock market are receiving bumper salaries and tasty bonuses.

AOL Hit by Insider Trading Allegation Ted Turner, the controversial American media mogul, has been cited in a legal action against AOL Time Warner which accuses the internet and film giant of using "tricks, contrivances and bogus transactions" to inflate its share price.

Congressman Questions Iraq Work Given to Halliburton Subsidiary Without Competition The deal could be worth as much as $7 billion over two years, but only $50.3 million has been spent. The $7 billion value was based on a worst-case scenario that hasn't occurred.

A Plan to Recalculate Pensions Corporations could find billions of dollars of pension shortfalls eliminated under a proposal being prepared by two congressmen. - Great! A fancy accounting trick that "makes obligations to retirees look smaller, at least on paper" is just what our economy needs!

F.B.I. Was Told Years Ago of Possible Double Agent In spite of being told in the early 1990's that a Los Angeles woman now accused of being a double-agent might be spying for the Chinese, the F.B.I. continued using her.

After Espionage Arrests, F.B.I. Looks Back and Wonders, 'How?' Katrina Leung, who now faces allegations of passing secrets to the government of China, understood the power of politics and of playing both sides.

House Democrats Want Halliburton Probe Halliburton's KBR subsidiary has a record of gouging the government in contracts awarded without competition, Reps. Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan contended in a letter to the General Accounting Office. - A GAO finding in 1997 that the company billed the Army for questionable expenses for work in the Balkans, including charges of $85.98 per sheet of plywood that cost $14.06. - A year 2000 follow-up report on the Balkans work that found inflated costs, including charges for cleaning some offices up to four times a day. - $2 million in fines paid in February, 2002, to resolve fraud claims involving work at Fort Ord, Calif. The Defense Department inspector general and a federal grand jury had investigated allegations by a former employee that KBR defrauded the government of millions of dollars by inflating prices for repairs and maintenance. - The Securities and Exchange Commission already is investigating Halliburton's accounting practices, looking into an accounting change made in 1998, during Cheney's tenure as CEO.

A U.S. Push on Accounting Fraud Nine months after President Bush named a federal task force, prosecutors are preparing a wave of indictments for accounting and securities fraud.

Bush Cronies Set to Make a Killing Andrew Natsios, head of the US Agency for International Development, set out to counter accusations that $600 million worth of contracts for reconstruction in Iraq that he is to award to US companies, some with strong Republican ties, were examples of cronyism.

N.Y.S.E. Abandons Gag Plan The New York Stock Exchange backed off a plan to stop analysts from talking to media outlets that do not disclose potential conflicts of interest.

Senators See War Bill as Way to Push Pet Projects As the Senate began debating the bill to pay for the conflict in Iraq, lawmakers were unable to resist trying to attach pet projects.

Insurance Loophole Helps Rich A 50-year-old program created to help farmers get insurance is now being used to get huge tax breaks for wealthy clients.

Mexico Indicts Former Chief of Secret Police A former secret police chief has been charged with murdering three leftists during the "dirty war" prosecuted by the Mexican government from the late 1960's into the 1980's, in what may be the beginnings of a breakthrough for the rule of law in Mexico.

Graft Is Alleged at New York City's Transit Agency The top security official at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that he has uncovered evidence of significant corruption within the agency.

Adviser to U.S. Aided Maker of Satellites Richard N. Perle advised Loral Space and Communications as it faced accusations that it improperly transferred sensitive rocket technology to the Chinese.

Web Venture Chief Is Indicted in Fraud Case Gregory Earls, the chief executive of U.S. Technologies, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of swindling more than $1 million from investors in an Internet venture.

Accused Adviser's Web Operator Is Arraigned The man who ran the Web site for a penny-stock adviser accused of using information from the F.B.I. to manipulate stock prices was himself arraigned on securities fraud charges.

Which Companies Will Put Iraq Back Together? Government contract officers plan to give American companies the first contracts to rebuild Iraq, a task that experts say could eventually cost $25 billion to $100 billion.

U.S. Ready to Rescind Clinto Order on Government Secrets By revoking an order by President Bill Clinton on classified information, the administration will make it easier for government agencies to keep documents secret.

Hospital Chain Accused of Accounting Fraud HealthSouth, the nation's largest chain of rehabilitation hospitals, was accused of adding $1.4 billion in nonexistent earnings to its profits.

Will U.S. Relax Antitrust Rules? The war changes many things: In normal times, collaboration would be a blatant violation of antitrust laws, but the war in Iraq can be used as an excuse to exempt the airlines from such laws, possibly under a government-operated monopoly in a "forced nationalization" of the domestic airline industry.

U.S. Seeks $289 Billion in Cigarette Makers' Profits The Justice Department is demanding that cigarette makers forfeit $289 billion in profits derived from a half-century of fraudulent and dangerous marketing.

Putting the Swiss System Back Together For decades, the Swiss economy has thrived by catering to the demands of the global elite for quality goods and discreet financial services. Now that pre-eminence is cracking. Not only are other nations luring deposits that once flowed to Swiss banks, but the rest of the Swiss economy is struggling to reinvent itself after being battered by American-style corporate excess.

Bar Code Company May Face S.E.C. Suit Symbol Technologies Inc., the world's largest maker of bar code scanners, may face civil actions in connection with its accounting practices.

Developer Gets Rent-Free Deal on Federal Land A developer with a connection on the committee that oversees the Army Corps of Engineers has managed to lease land owned by the corps for 50 years, rent-free.

Los Angeles Police Review Big Scandal "...that has cost the city $40 million in settlements... ...the new police chief ordered an outside investigation and reports emerged that corrupt officers remained on the beat."

San Fransisco Police Chief and Deputies Indicted in Cover-Up "...on charges related to a fight outside a bar in November involving off-duty police officers..."

Politicians in Judges' Robes "The courts derive their legitimacy from their perceived neutrality. If judges are actively involved in partisan politics, their decisions will be seen as political, no different than a vote by a legislator."

Enron: Under Cover of Dark and the War "Meanwhile, the man who used to run Enron's corrupt energy trading division is not only not in trouble, he's secretary of the US Army that, incredibly, makes him the man in charge of the Army budget."

Rumsfeld Was On ABB Board During Nuclear Deal with North Korea "Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defense, was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants. Weapons experts say waste material from the two reactors could be used for so-called 'dirty bombs.'"

Papers Indicate That Bayer Knew of Dangers of Its Cholesterol Drug The documents suggest that Bayer promoted Baycol even as a company analysis found that patients were falling ill or dying from a muscle disorder linked to the drug.

Fixing Albany: Why Albany Doesn't Mend the Courts The court system doesn't work well for the public, but politicians make sure it continues to operate very efficiently for them.

GOP Threats Halted GAO Cheny Suit Threats by Republicans to cut the General Accounting Office (GAO) budget influenced its decision to abandon a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney

Hospital Waste Disposal Firm Left Human Tissue and Blood Rotting at a Public Dump "...tons of human tissue and blood rotting... and leaked decomposing bodily fluids into a river..."

Wall St. Firms Are Faulted in Report on Enron's Taxes Wall Street banks helped Enron devise shelters that let it operate tax-free while exaggerating its profits, a Sentate committee was told on Thursday.

New York Will Sue 2 Big Drug Makers on Doctor Discount New York is accusing two major pharmacuetical companies of paying doctors and pharmacists to choose their drugs over competing medicines.

Weakening of Organic Standard Is Considered "Buried within the $397 billion spending bill passed last night by Congress is a provision that would permit livestock producers to certify and label meat as 'organic' even if the animal had been fed partly or entirely on conventional rather than organic grain."

Private E-mails Reveal Attempt to Circumvent McCain-Feingold "Private e-mails and letters... expose party officials routinely discussing policy issues and offering access to elected officials to secure large contributions."

Voting Machines Must Provide a Voter-Verifiable Audit Trail "Do not be seduced by the apparent convenience of 'touch-screen voting' machines, or the 'gee whiz' factor that accompanies flashy new technology. Using these machines is tantamount to handing complere control of vote counting to a private company, with no independent checks or audits. These machines represent a serious threat to democracy. Much better alternatives are available for upgrading voting equipment."

Jury Nullification: Our Last, Best Hope "No matter the wishes, instructions or threats of the judge, if a juror believes that the law is unjust, he or she may vote to acquit a defendant regardless of the evidence against them."

Bosnia Sex Trade Shames U.N. U.N. sex slaves exposed again! "...Kathryn Bolkovac, a UN police officer who was sacked for exposing the sexual abuse of women and CHILDREN in Bosnia by her colleagues."

GAO Won't Pursue Cheney Energy Probe Rep. Henry Waxman...called the GAO decision "a tremendous setback for open government."

The New York Process: How Not to Get Heard at a Legislative Hearing "The entire committee system in Albany is notoriously fraudulent - not just in the Republican Senate but also in the Democratic-controlled Assembly."

Credit Suisse Suspends Star During Inquiry "Credit Suisse suspended a banker after reports that he was aware of investigations when he urged co-workers to clean up files."

Bush Proposes Big S.E.C. Budget The White House announced the details of a proposed 92 percent budget increase for the Securities and Exchange Commission

If You Want to Win An Election, Just Control the Voting Machines "This is a bigger story than Watergate ever was..."

Relatives Sue 9/11 Fund Chief "...accusing the fund's administrator of acting illegally and unfairly, thereby shortchanging the families of all New York victims." *

After 10 Years, Corporate Oversight Is Still Dismal "Boards are quicker to punish incompetence - but no more apt to spot criminality. They will howl when quarterly numbers are depressed, yet shut their eyes when the numbers are squishy or even fraudulent."

Drug Sales Bring Huge Profits, and Scrutiny, to Cancer Doctors "At a time when overall spending on prescription drugs is soaring, cancer specialists are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars each year by selling drugs to patients - a practice that almost no other doctors follow."

Lobbyists Held Party for Bush Telecommunication Official "The Bush administration's top official for telecommunications policy let lobbyists for wireless companies help pay for a private reception at her home and 10 days later urged a policy change that benefited their industry, according to documents and interviews."

Olympic Committee President Calls for Ethics Investigation "...an independent panel to review the process by which Lloyd Ward, the organization's chief executive was exonerated of conflict of interest accusations..."

Fresh Cronyism Claims Over Deal for Smallpox Vaccine "A lucrative government contract for smallpox vaccine is set to be awarded to a major Labour donor for the second time, provoking complaints of cronyism from competitors."

I.R.S. Faults City Dealing on Pensions "...New York City violated federal tax laws by withdrawing $177 million over seven years from municipal pension systems and using it to pay it's own operating expenses"

Wall Street Firms Want Insurers to Cover Fines "Now that the biggest firms on Wall Street have agreed to pay $1.4 billion to end investigations into the behavior of their stock analysts, some are trying to get their insurance companies to write the checks." Paying to end investigations? Doesn't that sound like bribery to you?

3 More Quit Olympic Panel on Ethics "The ethics committee members who resigned yesterday said they had lost confidence in the Olympic committee's ability to enforce its ethics code..."

Driver License Scam Target of FTC Suits Six companies sued for selling fake "international driver's licenses" over the internet. "Scam artists who sell 'international driver's licenses' intentionally foster confusion between their license and a legitimate document called an international driving permit, authorities said. The legitimate $10 permit is an official translation of one nation's driver's license into other languages. But the permit confers no driving privileges by itself and must be accompanied by a valid driver's license from the motorist's home country, according to the U.S. State Department."

Online Brokers Fined Millions in Fraud Case

Arms Deals Criticized as Corporate Welfare

Bush Proposes 73% Increase in S.E.C. Budget to Fight Corporate Fraud

Genoa Police Admit 'Fabrication' of Evidence Against Protesters

Sharon's Television Appearance Declared Illegal 'Election Propagand'

House Weakens Ethics Rules

Sharon Target of Police Investigation Over Finances

Ex-Pa. Philly Public TV Manager Sentenced

Assemblywoman Pleads Guilty to Bribe

Incoming Top Marine Removes Three Decorations He Cannot Prove He Won

Corruption Trial Opens for Miami Officers

U.S. Deleted Iraqi-Run Florida Chemical Plant from UN Weapons List

Bush Drops Monthly Mass Layoff Report

Former H&R Block Manager Accused in Identity-Theft Ring

Government Openness at Issue as Bush Holds on to Records

Director of Los Alamos Lab is Replaced

M.I.T. Studies Accusations of Lies and Cover-Up of Flaws in Antimissile System

Pentagon Health Contractor Suffers Theft of Records

Separating Fakes From 9/11 Victims

Tyco Admits Using Accounting Tricks to Inflate Earnings by $382 Million

Hollywood Stars' Drug Doctor 'Duped Sick Patients'

U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Military Buildup

Jailed for Believing in Humanity

Questions Raised About Texas Adoption Agency with Alleged Links to Bush

U.N. Expansion Proceeds, Even as Neighbors Object

Drug Makers Battle Plan to Curb Rewards for Doctors

FBI Honors Target of 9/11 Whistleblower

Incoming Congressmen Include Millionaires Who Face Votes That Could Affect Their Financial Holdings

The Good Guys: They Get the Cover of Time, but Not Justice

Bush Administration Puts Advisors Under a Microscope

Frustrated Veterans Accuse Bush of Breaking Campaign Promise

US Wrecks Cheap Drugs Deal

So Much for the Plan to Scrap Old Weapons

What Our Government is Hiding

Former D.C. Teachers Union Leaders' Homes Raided

Salomon Smith Barney Analyst Fined $15 Million

French Court Finds Soros Guilty of Insider Trading; Imposes Fine of $2.3 Million

Police Say Mother Faked Girl's Cancer for Cash

Chief of U.S. Technologies Charged in Fraud Case

Wall Street Firms to Pay $1.4 Billion in Probe

U.S. Links Ryan to Cover-Up

Feds Want to See Enron "Joke" Videotape Featuring Bush's Jr. & Sr.

Carlye Group Buys Chunk of John Snow's CSX

Feds: Ill. Gov. Knew of Destroyed Papers

Mo. Woman Indicted for Defrauding 9-11 Group

Corporate Welfare for Lawbreaking Companies; More Than $855M in Federal Contracts to Violators!

Conman Tells Court Cherie Blair Gave Him Legal Advice on How to Fight a Deportation Case

Go-Ahead for Nazi Loot Bid

Jeb Bush Restores Civil Rights of FBI Agent Convicted of Destroying Ruby Ridge Documents

Woman Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against President Bush

Bush's SEC Nominee, Donaldson, is Defendant in Suit Over Stock Fraud

3 Companies Are Charged on Iran Export Violations

Mattel Faces Fine for Campaign Donations

Some Hurt Won't Get Vaccine Compenstation

Student Helps Cops Nab Alleged Swindler

Kissinger Steps Down as Chairman of 9/11 Panel - Hooray!

Source - U.S. Firms on List Aided Iraq Arms Development

U.N. Official Won't Reveal Iraq Suppliers to the Public - Why Not?

Crucial Terms Unresolved in Settlement for Wall St.

Investment Bank Threatens to Leave City Demanding Tens of Millions in Tax Breaks and Other Subsidies to Stay

Judge's Criteria for Sex Abuse Truly Stupefying

Democrats Seeking Kissinger Disclosures

Despite Denial, Enron Papers Show Big Profit on Price Bets

Expert Casts Doubt on Deepcut Shootings

U.S., State OK'd Tainted Food That Sickened Pupils

Airport ID Fraud

Contraband Back on Sale After Customs Seizures - Report

Bush Appointee Rules Cheney's Secret Safe

Conman Farce Engulfs Blairs

J.P. Morgan Chase Engineered Circular Enron Deal

First Minister's Former Secretary 'Took Drug Overdose'

Ex-Prosecutor Tells of Ties Between F.B.I. and Mob

New Hiding Place for Drug Profits: Insurance Policies

Bush Restores Cash Bonuses for Political Appointees

Investigators Find Repeated Deception in Ads for Drugs

Lies Catch Up with Blairs

British Prime Minister's Wife in E-Mail Link to Fraudster

Texas Death Row Appeals Lawyers Criticized

Union Head Cites Secret Report in Quitting Insurer

Ex-Advisor to Bush Apologizes for Slams (I Wonder Why?)

Instant Runoff Voting Could Bring Fundemental Change

Dino Deception - the Glue That Broke the Flying Dinosaurs Back

Marijuana Rights Group Declares War on Drug Czar's Illegal Campaigning

S.E.C. Facing Deeper Trouble

Why Judges Should Make Court Documents Public

Henry's Revenge

He's Ba-a-ack!

The Bagman Cometh

Kissinger in His Own Chilling Words

Henry Kissinger Redux: Meeting Today's Staffing Needs with Yesterday's Staff

Judge Again Orders Release of Cheney Papers

Charity Leader Takes Revenge From the Grave

A Capitol Hill Mystery: Who Aided Drug Maker?

MIT Professor Said to Call for Probe

Court Rules Judge Erred in Custody Case

U.S. Adds to Fawell Prostitute Allegations

Bank Failed to Question Huge Deposits

Toy-Maker Fined for Price Fixing

McGreevey Apologizes for Trip's Cost

Justice Denied

Ex-Court Chief Sues Judges - Accuses Entire Judiciary of Conspiracy

N.C. Sets Up 'Actual Innocence' Panel

New Mexico Lab Fires Two Whistleblowers

Ky. Nursing Home Owner: Records Altered

UN Whistleblower's Payout

Firms Facing Fines Up to $500 Million

Justince Dept. Seeks to Seal Vaccine Papers

Victim of Terrorism? - Sorry, That's Not Covered by Your Policy

Whose Hands Are Dirty? - Homeland Security Bill Protects Drugmakers from Liability

Bush Government 'Out of Control'

New Evidence of Fraud in Power Crisis

Homeland Bill Rider Aids Drugmakers - Blocks Vaccine Lawsuits

Bribery Charges Against Hindujas

Victim's Kin Find Fault with Overseer of 9/11 Fund

Senate Panel Says Watchdog Missed Many Enron Clues

'Chip Glitch' Hands Victory to Wrong Candidate

SF Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas Energy Company Records

Conlict of Interest for Vice President

Woman Accuses Police Over Rape Allegation

Deepcut: 'Army Altered Evidence'

Author of Anti-Gun History Book Quits After Panel Faults Research

Senator Killed in Plane Crash

Securities Fraud Enforcement Weakened by White House

Whistle-Blower Case at Issue - Government Official Tries to Weaken Protections for Whisle-Blowers

Lax New York Laws Make Big Money Bigger

'Unprecedented' Controversy - Election Video Opens Old Wounds

'Magic Circle' Behind Split Trusts is Named

Energy Industry's Dirty Little Secret About to See Light

Two Former Pentagon Officials Arrested, Charged with Extortion and Bribery

2 More Lawmakers Charged in Scandal

ID Thieves Using Fake IRS Forms to Get Data

Public Lose Faith in UK Leaders' Culture of Secrecy

Plea Deal Likely in Police Cocaine Theft

Candidate Denies Prosecutor's Drug Allegations

Statement by Former Special Agent on Routine Fraud by FBI Agents in Handling of Supposed Informants

500 Foster Kids Missing in Los Angeles

Group Denounces Voting Accusations

Government Lawyers Say They Haven't Read All Cheney Documents They Argued Should be Kept Secret

Govt. Haven't Read All Cheney Papers

Sen. Fights Congressional Pay Raise

Misuse of Govt. Credit Cards Drops

Report: Corporate Scandals Cost $200B

Enron Trader Will Plead Guilty in California Power Case

Cheney Derails Independent Investigation of 9/11

Former Guantanamo Official Stripped of Command

Court Refuses Gore Fund-Raiser Case

South Dakota Probes Voter Fraud Complaints

On Scientific Fakery and the Systems to Catch It

Revolving Door Monsters

The Spoils of War - Be the First on Your Block to Make a Buck Off Iraq

Army Secretary Thomas White Accused of Lying to Senate

Bush Oil Firm Did Enron Style Deal - Report

Roche Increases Reserves for Price-Fixing Lawsuits

Auditors Say U.S. Agencies Lose Track of Billions

First Minister Linked with Suspect Fund

Top Tories Face 'Oath of Loyalty'

Lawyer Says Judge Made Threat

Ex-Trafficant Juror Joins Campaign

Courts in Conflict Over Secret Hearings

Social Work Staff Failed Abuse Victim

The Government Continues to Lie About AIDS

Police to Live as Monks in Bid to End Corruption

UK Military on Spot Over Drug Tests

Lawmakers Undeterred by Utah Land Deal Probe

U.S. Auctions Cattle Seized From Members of Tribe Who Owe Fees

Oregon Supreme Court Strikes Down Voter-Passed Property Law

Brazilian Reporter Shot, Strapped to Tree

Study Claims Teamsters Union Nearly Free of Organized Crime

Cheney Firm Wins $3.8 Billion Contracts from Government

City Manager Advises Scrapping of Ethics Code

Las Vegas to Settle Claim on Overpaid Parking Tickets

Payment to Settle Allegations of Medicare Fraud

Corrupt Cops, Courts, and Attorneys

Call to Uncover Freemason Judges

Defective Chem-Bio Suits in DOD Inventory

Judge Orders Ex-LA Gov. to Prison

Panel's Report Offers Details on 'Spinning' of New Stocks

Drug Industry is Told to Stop Gifts to Doctors

Basic Financial Errors Sparked Mystery of the Missing Numbers

America's Criminal Class: The Congres of the United States (a five part series)

CD Price-Fixing Complaint Settled

State Officials' Money Handling Scrutinized - $25 Million Missing!

Juror Sentenced to Community Service for Having Low Opinion of Police

Detailed Analysis of WTC Collapse May Be Sealed As Part of Insurance Lawsuit

Mexican Laborers in WWII Get More Time to File Lawsuits to Recover Wages Owed

G.A.O., Cheney Clash Over Energy Secrecy

Enron Directors Escaping Discipline?

New Software Quietly Diverts Sales Commissions

Panel Says Bell Labs Scientist Faked Discoveries

Court Blocks DC Vote on Medical Use of Marijuana

Elections in America - Assume Crooks Are In Control

Nightmare Senario is Here - Computer Voting with No Paper Trail

The Impact of Voter Fraud in Close Elections

Tribune Offers Solution to Non-Verifiable Voting System

From the GAO: Review of Certain Aspects of the District of Columbia's Fiscal Year 1999 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act

Links to more information on corruption in government.

Sherman Skolnicks Report

J.A.I.L. 4 Judges

The Architecture of Modern Political Power

Vote Scam

Secure Poll

Military Corruption

Project on Government Oversight

Citizens Against Perjury Proliferation

MurderousJudges.com

FAIR Resources: Corporate Ownership