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American Pie: New US-Israeli Crime Ring Details Revealed

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Us-Israeli Crime Ring, Marvin Berkowitz, Corruption, Crime, American Pie, American Pie Tax Fraud, Crime Ring, Operation American Pie, American Pie: New Us-Israeli Crime Ring Details Revealed, American-Israeli Tax Fraud Ring, American Pie Fraud, American Pie Arrests, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli police said Monday that they had broken up an Israeli-American crime ring specializing in tax fraud and money laundering in ...

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American Plutocracy: Corruption Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, House of Representatives, Mike Ross, Congress, Afghanistan, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Bribery, Campaign Finance, Senate, Congressional Fundraising, Chuck Grassley, Health, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Political Corruption, Graft, Healthcare Lobbyists, Fundraising, Health Care, Healthcare, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Stuart Whatley

Most police officers in America do not require greased-palms for their services. But if one wishes to attend a chicken cordon bleu dinner with Senator Max Baucus of Montana, it will cost him $10,000

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Q&A with Michael Lewis (Part 1): The Rules of the Game Were Totally Screwed Up

Terrence McNally | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Goldman Sachs, Liar's Poker, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Ratings Agencies, Standard & Poor's, Michael Lewis, Obama, Sub-Prime Mortgage, Geithner, Business News
Terrence McNally

I recently interviewed author Michael Lewis about his new book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, and the financial meltdown and the bailout.

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Senate Committee Okays Bill To Protect Whistleblowers

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Project on Government Oversight, Whistleblower, President Obama, Whistleblower Legislation, National Whistleblower Center, Obama, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to protect federal employees from being punished for blowing the w...

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The Petri Dish of Politics: Starting with New York

Henry J. Stern | Posted 08.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, City Council, Senator Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Hiram Monserrate Pedro Espada, New York News
Henry J. Stern

When one asks what can be done about the errant or corrupt public official, we would first respond that the question is very difficult to answer.

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Want to Work 112 Days a Year? Run For Congress

Jonathan Neil Schneider | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Michael Jackson, Pharmaceutical Industry, Congress, Health Care, Barack Obama, Lobbyists, U.S. Congress, Special Interest Groups, Politics News
Jonathan Neil Schneider

Until members of Congress fear our vote more than the special interests dollars, whatever healthcare reform comes out of Washington will unfortunately favor their interests and not ours.

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Taking the Wheels Off the Machine

Timothy Karr | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hoboken, Corruption, Machine Politics, Cronyism, New Jersey, Fbi, Politics News
Timothy Karr

New Jersey's progressive movement should see Cammarano's demise as an opportunity. It's our chance to pry the state's Democratic Party from the patronage system that put "business as usual" before accountability.

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Mayor Daley, Why? (Or Why Not?)

David Murray | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Paul Vallas, Corruption, Arne Duncan, Cynicism, Goo-Goos, Mayor Daley, Mike Royko, Ron Huberman, Chicago Politics, Corruption Fatigue, Chicago Corruption, Chicago News
David Murray

It's not that I'm sick of Mayor Daley. He's as entertaining as ever, and as much a confounding brew of political genius and moral vulgarity, animal intelligence and intellectual imbecility as he ever was.

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Something's Rotten in the State of New Jersey

Morton Goldfein | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, Politics, Hoboken, Newark, New-Jersey-State-Politics, New Jersey, Political-Apathy, New York News
Morton Goldfein

Political corruption is not exclusive to New Jersey. Most other states have witnessed similar conduct.

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Culture, Corruption, and the Cost of Capital

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Economic Inefficiency, Baku, Culture, Business-Practices, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

Corrupt societies have a higher economic cost of capital. That's another way to say that higher integrity countries are wealthier.

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Equal Opportunity Corruption

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Goldman Sachs, The Americas, Cosmic Plan, First Peoples, Rod Blagojevich, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Roland Burris, Healthcare, Eric Holder, Borrowing, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Stewardship will solve the equal opportunity corruption in the United States if more and more of us will take our stewarding duties seriously. It's only going to work one individual at a time.

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Pay for Play - Conservatives Busted Again

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Conservatism, Pay for Play, Fedex Pay for Play, Fedex, Ups, Politico, American Conservative Union, Politics News
Dave Johnson

How much of what we see on TV, hear on the radio and read in newspapers or online as "conservative" or "centrist" opinion is actually paid for by corporate interests?

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Congress Demands Full Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Mess - and It's a Mess

Frank Naif | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Corruption, Jeppesen Dataplan, Foia, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Torture, Iraq Contractors, Mitchell Jessen & Associates, Outsourcing, Dusty Foggo, House Intelligence Committee, Dni, Booz Allen Hamilton, Classified Contracts, Jane Mayer, Cia, Private Security Contractors, Defense Contractors, Waste, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Leon Panetta, FOIA Requests, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.

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Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption

Jake Whitney | Posted 08.11.2009 | World

Read More: Michela Wrong, Kenya, Corruption, Kibaki, It's Our Turn to Eat, Githongo, African Leaders, Mobutu Sese Seko, Africa, Frederick Chaluba, Robert Mugabe, Sani Abacha, John Githongo, Idi Amin, World News
Jake Whitney

Wrong's new book, It's Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower, confronts the question of African corruption head on and finds there's plenty of blame to go around.

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The Fed Under Fire (VIDEO)

Harry Hanbury | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Kucinich, Bill Greider, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Obama, Alan Grayson, Grayson, Bank of America, William Greider, Ken Lewis, Fed, Dennis Kucinich, Nancy Pelosi, The Fed, Ben Bernanke, Audit, Corruption, Grider, Business News
Harry Hanbury

As details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.

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Jordanian Parliament is Back on Air... Indirectly

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Internet, Parliament, Jordan, Radio, Broadcast, Israel, Palestine, Broadcast TV, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Two and a half years after being taken off the air, Radio Al Balad was able to broadcast live during the afternoon session of Parliament on July 6, 2009.

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Gamal Mubarak for A Second Term?

Wael Nawara | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Egypt, Ndp, El Ghad Liberal Party of Egypt, Kifaya Movement, Gamal Mubarak, Democracy in Egypt, Egypt Presidential Election, World News
Wael Nawara

These and many other counts of corruption and abuse of power have managed to give "liberal" policies a bad name amongst Egyptians, who now think that Liberalism is equal to nepotism.

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Interview with Health Insurance Exec/Whistleblower Wendell Potter

Rob Kall | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Cigna, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Healthcare, Politics News
Rob Kall

"I think it's very important to understand that the private insurance industry is not trustworthy for individuals, businesses or for the government," says Potter.

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Spain's Spy Chief Resigns: Used Gov. Money To Vacation, Staffers To Remodel His Home

AP | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Spying, Spain, Spain Intelligence Agency, Alberto Saiz, World News

MADRID — Spain's intelligence chief resigned Thursday amid allegations he used government money to go on hunting and fishing trips and had staff...

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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She's Baaack! Imelda Marcos Gets $310M Jewels Returned

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 07.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Corruption, Newsweek, Ferdinand Marcos, Despots, Carrie Bradshaw, The Philippines, Sex and the City, Imelda Marcos, Philippines, Shoes, Bernie Madoff, Style News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Remember Imelda Marcos? The woman who was the epitome of despotic greed, proudly showing off her walk-in wardrobe of 3000 pairs of shoes?

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Jeff Muskus

Kucinich Rips Lewis For Duping Shareholders (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Fed, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Wall Street, Ken Lewis, Dennis Kucinich, Bernanke, Financial Crisis, Frbny, Politics News

Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis took a pounding Thursday from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. One of the most damning exchanges ...

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Some Victory Against Ben Nelson -- Who is Next?

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, John Conyers, Ben Nelson, Special Interests, Lawrence Lessig, Change Congress, Politics News
Lawrence Lessig

Ben Nelson probably hates us right now -- or at least me. But that's OK, it was worth it. Here's what happened.

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A Republican to Save Us

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Corruption, Law, Geithner, Fdic, Bush, Money, Clinton, Economy, Scheer, Obama, Government, Politics, Bailout, Citibank, Rubin, Sheila Bair, Business News
Robert Scheer

You probably don't know much about Sheila Bair, but she is looking out for you, and that is why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.

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Back to Sachs: Astrology, Despotism, and Africa

William Easterly | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Jeffrey Sachs, Geography, Poverty, Economics, Health, Africa, Democracy, Bill Easterly, Fighting Malaria, World News
William Easterly

Calling 63 countries "potentially well governed" is like saying Paris Hilton is potentially a virgin; ignoring bad government is a formula for the same kind of bad aid policy that produced decades of failure.

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