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POLITICS / NEWS Sun Dec 16, 2007 @ 11:58am neoform

Philadelphia Local News -- With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly. Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win a multimillion-dollar bu.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 1:37pm neoform

ABC News -- Investigations into government corruption in Iraq are being stopped in their tracks due to an antiquated law that has been reinstated by the prime minister, according to a report to be released today by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstructio.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

USA Today -- Democratic lawmakers are eager to hear from outed CIA operative Valerie Plame as they try to make political fodder out of the 2003 leak scandal. Plame was scheduled to testify before a congressional committee Friday, but it was unlikely the hearing wou.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 1:02pm neoform

Baltimore Sun -- The chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys at the start of President Bush's second term, but the Justice Department objected and eventually recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two y.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Thu Mar 8, 2007 @ 3:53pm neoform

New York Times -- Americans often suspect that their political leaders are arrogant and out of touch. But even then it is nearly impossible to fathom what self-delusion could have convinced Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico that he had a right to call a federal prosecuto.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 10:47pm neoform

CNN -- Former Congressman Bob Ney reported to a federal prison Thursday morning to begin serving a 21/2-year sentence for corruption, a fall from grace spurred by gifts from now imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. As inmate No. 28882-016, Ney's lifestyle will.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 7:47pm neoform

Washington Post -- The fired U.S. attorney in New Mexico says he was pressured by two members of Congress prior to the November elections about the pace of an ongoing public corruption probe that targets local Democrats. David C. Iglesias -- who is leaving today after mo.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 10:16pm neoform

United States Senate -- Signaling a renewed emphasis on combating corruption at home and abroad, incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), introduced a package of bills Thursday targeting corrupt officials and private companies seeking to defraud Americ.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Nov 19, 2006 @ 9:51am neoform

Times Online -- WHEN an American adventurer and arms dealer was gunned down in his black BMW near the banks of the Tigris river in 2004, his murder was blamed on an obscure group of Islamic terrorists... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A day after Barack Obama sealed the Democratic nomination for president, a corruption scandal involving a fundraiser who once bankrolled his campaign resurfaced to slightly dampen the festivities. Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, 52, was convic.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 29, 2007 @ 5:49pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The case appeared to be open and shut. The county sheriff had been caught selling an illegal whiskey still from the back of the county jail. The buyers were a federal informant and an undercover federal investigator. The sheriff, to elude honest police.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 3:32pm neoform

CNN -- Two mayors and two state legislators are among 11 public officials arrested in New Jersey as part of a corruption investigation, the U.S. attorney's office in Trenton announced Thursday. "The defendants allegedly demanded and accepted payments ranging fro.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:10am neoform

CNN -- FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents searched the Alaska home of veteran Sen. Ted Stevens Monday amid a corruption probe that has already snared two oil-company executives and a state lobbyist. Dave Heller, an FBI spokesman in Anchorage, Alaska, confir.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 5:06pm neoform

CNN -- Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James pleaded not guilty Monday to federal corruption charges that he courted women using city money and engaged in property fraud. James, 71, is accused of charging more than $58,000 on city-issued credit cards for trips for hi.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The European Commission is to criticise Bulgaria and Romania for failing to tackle deep-rooted corruption and reform their judiciary. Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU six months ago. A report by the Commission highlights the lack of convictions in.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

FOX News -- The political scuffle over Rep. William Jefferson's corruption charges appeared to be at a boiling point on Tuesday, a day after the nine-term congressmen was hit with 16 federal charges accusing him of using his political office to bribe businessmen and.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 10:44am neoform

Washington Post -- "I can't pretend to know or remember every fact that may be of relevance," he warned at the start -- and he wasn't kidding. He used the phrase "I don't remember" a memorable 122 times. Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto.. Read More