Government Corruption

The Real Meaning of the GSA Scandal

J.H. Snider | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Spectrum, Fcc, Inspector General, General Services Administration, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Martha Johnson, Federal Communications Commission, Government Corruption, Gsa, Office of Inspector General, Public Airwaves, Ntia, Politics News

What accounts for the different treatment? Why is a million dollars of waste at the GSA a scandal but not tens of billions of dollars at the FCC-NTIA? I believe public ignorance and apathy are the immediate cause of blame.

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Do You Really Think Your Vote Counts?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Ted Stevens, Corporate America, Small Business, President Obama, America, Bailout, Corporate Taxes, American Small Business League, Bank Industry, Military-Industrial Complex, President Eisenhower, Senate, Oil Company Taxes, Government Corruption, Small Business News

Today, it doesn't really matter who the President is or who is in Congress because big corporations run our government.

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Lieberman Parties With Lobbyists Hours Before Passing Watered-Down Ethics Reform

Lee Fang | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Corruption, Ethics Reform, Insider Trading, STOCK Act, Corruption in Congress, President Obama, Senator Lieberman, Government Corruption, Joe Lieberman, Politics News

Strong improvements to the bill, from both Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), were blocked. The weakened STOCK Act, which President Obama says he will sign, does little to address any real corruption in Congress.

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The Bigger They Come

Henry J. Stern | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Winston Churchill, Corruption, New York City Council, Ed Koch, Frank Costello, Trial Lawyers, Trial, Government Corruption, New York News

While only a relatively small portion of elected officials are criminals, still the frequency of arrests and indictments of members of the political class causes people to doubt the integrity and validity of the legislative process.

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'Angels' in Search of a Better Government

Andy Shaw | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Government Corruption, Political Donations, Better Government Association, Government Watchdog, Investigation, Political Activism, Generosity, Chicago News

At first glance I assumed it was another $50 donation. Another 999 of those and we'll hire a new investigator, I thought. But as I examined the numbers more closely the written amount jolted me like an electric shock: $50,000. From people I'd never met.

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Newborn On Nigeria's Payroll Earns $150 A Month

AP | YINKA IBUKUN | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Government-Payroll, Nigeria Newborn, Nigeria-Corruption, Nigeria, Government Corruption, Nigeria Government Payroll, Newborn on Payroll, Nigerian Government, World News

LAGOS, Nigeria — A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 for the last two or three years, a discovery in...

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Feds Dig Into Blagojevich Pension

AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Rod Blagojevich Corruption, Government Corruption, Rod Blagojevich, Patrick Fitzgerald, Blagojevich Pension, Rod Blagojevich Pension, Chicago News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Federal prosecutors are digging for data about convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's potential pension income in advance o...

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People "Are Occupying Wall Street Because Wall Street Has Occupied the Country"

Bill Moyers | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Third World America, Public Citizen, Middle Class, Occupy Wall Street, Government Corruption, #Occupywallstreet, Bill Moyers, US Politics, Zuccotti Park, Media News

Our politicians are little more than money launderers in the trafficking of power and policy -- fewer than six degrees of separation from the spirit and tactics of Tony Soprano.

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You Want Solutions? Let's Look to Our Government for Some!!

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Holding Elected Officials Responsible, Government Corruption, Conservatives, We the People, Liberals, The Relentless Conservative, Politics News

As a columnist, I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't even pretend to have any of the answers. That's the job and sacred obligation of those we elect to office.

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Suburban Administrators Cash In As Districts Struggle

Skokie, IL Patch | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Corruption, Chicago Suburbs, Skokie Patch, Niles Township, Niles Township School District, Government Corruption, Chicagoland Patch, Patch, Chicago News

A Patch investigation has revealed that retired administrators have been landing lucrative contracts as consultants at the same time teachers are figh...

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The Wages of Sin

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Victor Barron, Charles Hynes, Pension Reform, Pensions, Government Workers, Government Corruption, New York News

One of the perennial questions that arises in government is whether dishonest public officials, if convicted, should forfeit their pensions. No one rule can cover all the cases.

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Starting a Saudi Revolution Without Revolutionaries

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Day of Rage, Social Welfare, Egypt. Tunisia, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Reform, Government Corruption, Bahrain, Facebook, World News

Sometimes people are so hopeful about the prospect of more bloodshed spilled in the Middle East that they resort to stretching the truth to further their agenda.

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Weary Travelers Offer Fixes for Massive Corruption in India

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rajdhani Express, Corruption, India, Bihar, Laloo Prasad Yadav, Telecom Scandal, Nitish Kumar, Indian Politics, Indian Corruption, Government Corruption, World News

The Rajdhani Express was running late by seven hours. So when asked about the recent explosion of corruption scandals in the nation, travelers were eager to blast the "system" and its failures.

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Hope for 2011

Cilla McCain | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Hope, Government Corruption, 2011, Accountability, Border Control, Veterans, Impact News

I e-mailed some of my friends and acquaintances this new year's and asked what lessons they've learned in 2010. Their responses went much deeper than vowing to lose weight or exercise.

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Firm Packed With Ex-Customs and Border Officials Lands Contract

G.W. Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Government Contractors, Immigration, U.S. Border Patrol, Border Security, Homeland Security, Government Corruption, Politics News

The U.S. Border Patrol's announcement that it was seeking to hire a contractor for "strategic consulting" services first raised eyebrows in July. Perhaps it wasn't much of a surprise that the contract went to a firm loaded with former government insiders.

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Guy Fawkes Protesters Finally Celebrate the Right Way

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guy Fawkes Day, Government Accountability, Government-Corruption, Activism, Guy Fawkes, Protest, World News

On November 5, 1605, England held a celebration for the opening of Parliament. Guy Fawkes tried to spark a revolution by blowing up the building, and ...

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My Dad Tried to Right a Wrong, Now He's Behind Bars Unjustly

Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laywer, Coercive Confinement, Taxpayer Advocate, Judicial Bonus, Judicial Corruption, Richard I. Fine, Advocate, Government Corruption, L.A. Judicial System, Political Prisoner, Impact News

My father is 69 years old and is known for his dapper bow ties and for seeing the world in strict terms of right and wrong. And since March, he has been taken a political prisoner of the L.A. County Jail System.

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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi: Screw the Bus

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Party, Matt Taibbi, Government Corruption, Democratic Party, 2008 Election, Offthebus, Home News

OffTheBus recently caught up with Matt Taibbi and discussed a range of issues from his new book, Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire, and campaign trail journalism.

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