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Lawyers who represent corporations before the Justice Department have recently noticed a surge in business-related settlements, starting just after the November election. According to the Washington Post, there have been 19 such settlements in the last two months, compared with 16 during the same period a year ago and just five in 2006.
Many of [...]

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Andrew McLemore
Published: Saturday December 27, 2008
The White House faced yet another crisis Friday as a photo emerged of President Bush shaking hands with Robert Toussie, the father of the pardoned, and then unpardoned, housing scammer Isaac Toussie.
The photo was taken in early 2008, and it is unclear whether it was taken before or after the [...]

On Christmas eve, Bush retracted the pardon of “Isaac Toussie, a Brooklyn developer convicted of fraud and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development”
Toussie’s father had donated $28, 500 to the Republican Party in April, apparently the first donation he had ever made, and right before the pardon petition. The [...]

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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday December 17, 2008
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has gained notoriety for his involvement in a pay-to-play corruption scandal — but is it possible that he was once a petty criminal?
Attorney and former police officer Robert Cooley claims that back when he was doing undercover work for the FBI in the [...]

Bush Administration Created Executive Pay Loophole…The Bush Administration inserted an eleventh-hour provision into the $750 billion bailout bill to protect executive bonuses, a single sentence that will torpedo efforts to reduce bonuses even as companies slash tens of thousands of jobs and use taxpayer money to gobble up other companies at fire-sale prices.

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The Times
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:51 UTC
Pressure grew on two of Barack Obama’s closest political aides yesterday as new details emerged of the “pay-for-play” allegations against the Governor of his home state.

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Noah Shachtman
While the Pentagon preps for a new administration, a scandal from an earlier era is rearing its head.
A Defense Department project, supposedly designed to support U.S. troops, was used instead to channel millions of dollars to personal friends and allies of its chief. The “America Supports You,” or ASY, program was led in a [...]

Guns for groceries…When Americans start turning in their weapons for food yes, times are tough.
Out by June: UK plans Iraq withdrawal…Britain’s six-year occupation of south Iraq will begin drawing to a close in March, and the last troops will leave Basra by June, a senior defence source disclosed yesterday.
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Gonzales Says He Does Not Recall
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 3, 2008; A02
Former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales told investigators that he could not recall whether he took home notes regarding the government’s most sensitive national security program and that he did not know they contained classified information, despite his own markings that [...]

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Ron Brynaert
Published: Thursday November 27, 2008
Hopes media won’t ‘let it die’
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra spoke to two Texas television stations Wednesday night regarding his investigation of injustice within the prison systems which led to the indictment by a Texas grand jury of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, [...]