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UPDATE from The Hill:
President Obama’s campaign has given to charity a $4,600 campaign donation from fugitive money man R. Allen Stanford, who is accused of $8 billion in fraud.
A former campaign aide said the president’s campaign donated the money to the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), announced he would donate the money [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 18th, 2009 | Tags: Bernie Madoff, investment advisers, Law, ponzi, Rangel, scams, SEC, Senator John Cornyn, Sir Allen Stanford | Category: Cornyn, Corporate Corruption, Law, Politics | Comments (4)

Texans For Lawsuit Reform Speaks Out On Plaintiff Bar Scandals
Chairman Says Recent Convictions Undermine Public Trust in Civil Justice System
AUSTIN, Texas, Jul 14, 2008 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX) — Texans for Lawsuit Reform Chairman Richard W. Weekley spoke out on the wave of malfeasance among personal injury trial lawyers, saying recent high
-profile convictions of several prominent [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Accountability, Law, Lawsuit Reform, Lawyers, litigation, Politics, Texans for Lawsuit Reform, Texas Law, Tort Reform | Category: Accountability, Insurance, Law, Lawsuit Reform, Lawyers, Politics, Texans for Lawsuit Reform, Texas, Texas Law, Texas Politics, Tort Reform | Comments (1)

Oscar Wyatt Jr., 83, founder and former chairman of Coastal Corp. enters Manhattan federal court in the second week of his trial in this October file photo. LOUIS LANZANO: AP
Texas Oilman Handed Year Prison Term
NEW YORK (AP) — Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. was sentenced to a year in prison Tuesday for his [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 27th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Coastal Corp, Corporate Corruption, Crooks, Houston, Hypocracy, Iraq, Law, Oil, Oscar Wyatt Jr, Texas Crooks, United Nations, betrayal, collaborators, consequences, contradictions, cover up, crimes, lies, oil-for-food, profiteers | Comments (2)

Russia: Bloggers Expose a Pharmaceutical Scam
Over the past few weeks thousands of Russian bloggers have united to combat a pharmaceutical scam that tried to persuade Russian pensioners to spend around half of their annual pension on a course of Gravikol 21 – ‘anti-arthritis’ drugs that were actually little more than vitamin pills.
In the course of [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 14th, 2007 | Category: Business, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gravikol 21, Health, Human Rights, Internet & Telecoms, Law, Media, Politics, Protest, pharmaceutical, scams | Comments (6)

WACO, Texas — Former Waco Humane Society animal shelter director was sentenced Monday to 90 days in jail and five years’ probation for improperly using an agency credit card for personal expenses.

HOUSTON — Texas Southern University’s former president betrayed the trust of students, officials and the community when she put her needs ahead of [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 8th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Corruption, Crooks, Law, Oversight, Politics, Texas Crooks, Texas Politics, betrayal, conspiracy, crimes, infrastructure, lies, profiteers, resonsibility | Comments (2)

Official Washington loves the word “stealth.”
At least that’s how the nation’s trial lawyers view the Bush administration’s increasing use of federal health and safety regulations in defense of manufacturers trying to fend off multimillion-dollar liability claims from consumers in state courts.
The fine print of a 2006 Food and Drug Administration rule on prescription labeling that [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 11th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Health Care, Law, Lawyers, Politics, Tort Reform, WallMart, consumers, courts, legal, liability, manufacturers, negligence, poverty, regulations | Leave a comment

The crimes are not related, maybe. Both surround personal issues. Sexuality and Divorce. Larry certainly believes he is above the law and not accountable for his actions. Shae Howell believes it is her right to break into her ex-husband’s house and trash it. Trash the law … is this [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 8th, 2007 | Category: Howell, Idaho, Larry Craig, Law, arrested, arrogance, divorce, sex, vandalism | Comments (2)

New Book Details Cheney Lawyer’s Efforts to Expand Executive Power

By Dan Eggen and Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writers
Vice President Cheney’s top lawyer pushed relentlessly to expand the powers of the executive branch and repeatedly derailed efforts to obtain congressional approval for aggressive anti-terrorism policies for fear that even a Republican [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 5th, 2007 | Category: 1984, Accountability, Black Ops, Bomb, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Constitution, Contempt, Corporate Corruption, Crooks, Defiance, Donald Rumsfeld, DoubleSpeak, Executive Branch, Foriegn Policy, Global Power, Halliburton, Hypocracy, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Israel, KBR, Law, Orwellian, PNAC, Pentagon Corruption, President, Private Armies, Propaganda, Shadow Government, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, War Contractors, War Crimes, World Order, administration, arrogance, betrayal, big brother, brain, civil liberties, civil rights, conspiracy, cover up, covert, criminal, disinformation, domestic spying, empire, mind control, no-bid contract | Comments (3)

Documents Show Troops Disregarding Rules
by Ryan Lenz
New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
“The simple fact of the matter is interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 5th, 2007 | Category: ACLU, Abu Ghraib, Accountability, Baghdad, Casualties, Collateral, Cowboys and Indians, Education, Excuses, Gangs, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Iraq, Law, Legacy, Mercenaries, Occupation Army, Outsource, PTSD, Pentagon Corruption, Private Armies, Propaganda, Rumsfeld, Scandal, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Cost, War Crimes, abuse, arrogance, battlefield, betrayal, cover up, crimes, department of defense, deployment, disinformation, documents, escalation, ethics, humanitarian, incompetence, innocents, lies, mental health, military, profiteers, resonsibility, training, troops | Leave a comment