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Grand jury recommends Alabama police department be 'immediately abolished'
ABC - Thu Feb 20, 2025
An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief. More»

Retired New York Judge Kills Himself as FBI Arrives on Doorstep of his Expensive Home
Daily Mail - Wed Sep 25, 2024
A former prosecutor and retired judge killed himself on Tuesday as the FBI arrived at his home in New York to arrest him. More»

How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients
New York Times - Sun Sep 1, 2024
Acadia Healthcare is one of America’s largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. More»

Democratic US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his Wife are Indicted over Ties to Azerbaijan
Yahoo! News - Sat May 4, 2024
WASHINGTON — Democratic US Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a US Department of Justice probe into the couple's ties to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. More»

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud
WABE-TV - Mon Mar 25, 2024
ATLANTA, Georgia - A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud. More»

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Convicted of Obstruction
NBC New York - Tue Dec 14, 2021
BROOKLYN, New York - Authorities said the obstruction occurred while the Brooklyn judge was on a NYC-based credit union’s board of directors from May 2008 to Aug. More»

U.S. Navy engineer, wife charged with selling submarine secrets
Reuters - Sun Oct 10, 2021
WASHINGTON - A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent who posed as an operative for a foreign country, the Justice Department said on Sunday. More»

Ousted Tennessee governor linked to 1979 closed cold case murder
KENS-TV - Thu Jun 10, 2021
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — A former Tennessee governor's administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state's largest political scandal, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday. More»

3 Current and Former NYPD Cops Arrested on Corruption Charges
NBC New York - Tue May 11, 2021
The FBI and NYPD arrested two current police officers and one retired officer in connection with purported corruption schemes involving everything from tow trucks to heroin trafficking. More»

Ethics Chief Slams Cruz’s Warning To ‘Woke’ CEOs As ‘Most Openly Corrupt’ Ever
Huffington Post - Sun May 2, 2021
Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) threat to “woke” CEOs was slammed Sunday as likely the “most openly corrupt” message ever from the Senate, declared Walter Shaub, former head of the Government Office of Ethics. More»

Giuliani associate told ex-CIA officer a Trump pardon would 'cost $2 million
The Guardian - Sun Jan 17, 2021
An associate of Rudy Giuliani told a former CIA officer a presidential pardon was "going to cost $2 million", the New York Times reported on Sunday in the latest bombshell to break across the last, chaotic days of Donald Trump's presidency. More»

65 faculty members from AG Barr's law school alma mater say he has 'failed to fulfill his oath of office'
CNN - Tue Jun 23, 2020
Law professors and faculty from George Washington University Law School, Attorney General William Barr's alma mater, said in a letter Tuesday he has "failed to fulfill his oath of office to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States'. More»

Georgia nurses accuse hospital of manipulating COVID-19 test results
WXIA-TV - Sat Jun 20, 2020
ATHENS, Georgia - The lawsuit filed against Landmark Hospital in Athens has many allegations including nurses being instructed to swab incorrectly to give false results. More»

Trump's new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
Salon - Mon May 18, 2020
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million in stock options in a company that has received federal funding to develop such a vaccine. More»

Trump Pushes CDC to Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts
Daily Beast - Wed May 13, 2020
President Donald Trump and members of his coronavirus task force are pushing officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change how the agency works with states to count coronavirus-related deaths. More»

Trump is culpable in deaths of Americans, says Noam Chomsky
The Guardian - Sun May 10, 2020
Donald Trump is culpable in the deaths of thousands of Americans by using the coronavirus pandemic to boost his electoral prospects and line the pockets of big business, Prof Noam Chomsky has said. More»

GOP's Coronavirus Insider Trading Scandal
Raw Story - Fri Mar 20, 2020
In a series of bombshell news reports, two GOP senators, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, are facing serious questions surrounding their dumping of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of stock as the coronavirus began to unfold and become a major international news story. More»

Florida woman charged with changing party affiliations of voters
Tampa Bay Times - Fri Mar 6, 2020
CLERMONT, Florida - A central Florida woman is accused of submitting false voter registration information that switched the party affiliations of voters without their knowledge, sheriff’s investigators said. More»

Oil and gas industry rewards US lawmakers who oppose environmental protections
The Guardian - Tue Feb 25, 2020
The oil and gas industry substantially rewards US legislators with campaign donations when they oppose environmental protections, according to a new analysis of congressional votes and political contributions. More»

Trump lawyer: rigging polls 'was at the direction of' Trump
Reuters - Sun Feb 16, 2020
WASHINGTON - Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data “at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump. More»

Senior Trump Official Embellished Résumé, Had Face On Fake Time Cover
NBC News - Wed Nov 13, 2019
WASHINGTON - A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background - even creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it - raising questions about her qualifications to hold a top position at the State Department. More»

Defense Intelligence Agency worker arrested on charges of leaking top-secret information to reporters
CNBC - Wed Oct 9, 2019
A counterterrorism analyst for the US Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that he leaked top secret and other classified information - including details of a foreign country's weapons systems - to two reporters in 2018 and this year. More»

Florida deputy arrested for planting drugs on drivers during traffic stops
NBC News - Thu Jul 11, 2019
A Florida sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday after authorities alleged he planted drugs and falsely charged dozens of innocent motorists after pulling them over under the guise of a minor traffic stop. More»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu To Be Indicted
Huffington Post - Thu Feb 28, 2019
Israel's attorney general on Thursday announced he will indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, local media reported. More»

Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Betsy DeVos Adoption Agency
Patheos - Thu Feb 7, 2019
The Trump administration says it can't reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead, many of the children are being shipped to a Christian adoption agency with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. More»

Matthew Whitaker: Acting Attorney General Said Judges Should Be Christian
The Guardian - Thu Nov 8, 2018
Donald Trump's new attorney general once said that judges should be Christian and proposed blocking non-religious people from judicial appointments. More»

Jeff Sessions Forced Out As Attorney General After Constant Criticism From Trump
NPR - Wed Nov 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions, the president's earliest and most fervent supporter in Congress, resigned under pressure as attorney general on Wednesday after brutal criticism from the president, bringing an abrupt end to his controversial tenure as the nation's top law enforcement officer. More»

Paul Manafort found guilty on eight counts
CNN - Mon Aug 20, 2018
Alexandria, Virginia - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, a major victory for special counsel Robert Mueller. More»

Rick Perry: 'Righteous' fossil fuels help prevent sexual assaults
Raw Story - Wed Nov 1, 2017
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said on Thursday that bringing fossil fuels to the developing world will prevent sexual assaults because rapes are less difficult in the dark. More»

Manhattan DA let molester OB/GYN plead out, avoid prison while his lawyers wrote campaign checks
Think Progress - Fri Oct 20, 2017
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance accepted over $3,000 in campaign funds from attorneys representing a gynecologist his office was prosecuting for alleged serial sexual assault of patients in 2015. More»

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