Bribes and the Iraq War
This case has been brewing for a while with arrests made in late July, and yet, I knew nothing of it until this article. The Pentagon is investigating billions of dollars in contracts, and have found...
View Article'Bribes' free top Taleban leader
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View ArticleCrane Inspector Arrested For Taking Bribes, Responsible For Crane Accident
BY ADAM LISBERG DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEFUpdated Friday, June 6th 2008, 4:45 PMThe city's top crane inspector was charged Friday with taking thousands of dollars in bribes from a company in...
View ArticleDisgraced NBA ref: Playoff games were manipulated
NEW YORK - NBA referees, influenced by cozy relationships with league officials, rigged a 2002 playoff series to force it to a revenue-boosting seven games, a former referee at the center of a...
View Article$250,000 Can Buy You the Endrsement of the White House
A lobbyist associated with the Bush Administration, Stephen Payne, is caught on tape saying that a $250,000 donation to the Bush Library will ensure an exiled Asian president could receive a favorable...
View ArticleLead researcher on BPA study accepts $5 million from industry
Charles Gelman, a retired manufacturer of syringes and medical filtration devices who considers Bisphenol A (BPA) to be "perfectly safe", gave $5 million to the research center headed by Martin...
View ArticleUS judges admit taking kickbacks from "privet" detention center
Two US judges charged with taking more than $2m (£1.4m) in kickbacks from a privately-run detention centre have pleaded guilty to fraud.Prosecutors say Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took...
View ArticleConservative group offers to sell endorsement for $2M
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx...
View ArticleFarmers bribed and threatened over BT cotton disaster
EXTRACTS: "Like most other farmers, I opted for BT[cotton]-1 and BT-2, the latter I still grow," says Mangal, a farmer from Thikariya village, "The companies promised a 25 quintals output. I managed 3...
View ArticleLieberman 9 Arrested in D.C. Senate Office: Raw Video
Over 50,000 die every year for lack of health care and more for denial of care despite having health insurance. That's well over 100 deaths per day. 50 million (and growing) in the U.S. have no health...
View ArticleBlackwater Approved Payoffs of Iraqi Officials
To stifle criticism of civilian killings, the American mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater approved payoffs of up to $1 million for Iraqi politicians, according to former company officials who...
View ArticleBlackwater Said To Pursue $1 Million In Iraqi Bribes After Killing 17
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007...
View ArticleGive prosecution & suo motu powers to Lokayukta - Petition
Please give powers to the Karnataka lokayukta or kla to prosecute the corrupt politicians / netas and government / sarkari officials / authorities / babus in the Karnataka State of India. added by:...
View ArticleRichard I Fine Released (after 18 months confinement for contempt charges)
Jailed for contempt. Some speculate that the contempt charges and subsequent jailing of Fine were carried-out in effort to silence his allegations of/to corruption within the judiciary. Others may...
View ArticleGreek Elections: Candidate bribes voters with 10 euro per vote!
How much is a vote worth? In times before IMF a local city council or mayor candidate would bribe his voters with a job at the municipality. Sponsors would be very generous and invite people for dine...
View Article$100 Bribe to Ticket Agent Allows Unknown Package to Fly on JetBlue
Although millions of dollars are spent on airline security each year in the United States, it only took $100.00 for a JetBlue ticket agent to allow a unknown package to go onto a flight, coming from an...
View ArticleBest Damned Government That Money Can Buy
People always whinin bout politics, some say the president's a fool, Most folks complain about taxes and how they have to follow all the rules, Everybody's crabbin bout congress, judges are corrupt, no...
View ArticleGSA inspector general is investigating possible bribes, kickbacks
By Lisa Rein and Ed O’Keefe, Published: April 16The inspector general for the General Services Administration said Monday that he is investigating possible bribery and kickbacks in the agency, as...
View ArticleHow Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico - NYTimes.com
SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACÁN, Mexico — Wal-Mart longed to build in Elda Pineda’s alfalfa field. It was an ideal location, just off this town’s bustling main entrance and barely a mile from its ancient...
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