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House Speaker Dennis Hastert (Republican, Illinois) ignores a call by the conservative Washington Times newspaper to resign for his alleged role in covering-up the Mark Foley scandal. The most conservative Republicans are likely offended by Hastert's strong condemnation of Foley so close to the Nov ... |
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The FBI searches the home and office of former CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo. Foggo is under investigation over his ties to a defense contractor linked to the bribery case against former Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California. |
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The US government abruptly ends an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. Specifically the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) sends a fax ... |
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Former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison in his Florida fraud case. |
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Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) announced that a full investigation is required and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) called the leak of intelligence information ''inappropriate'' if it is true that unnamed ''superiors'' instructed Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby, to divulge the material ... |
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Correspondence from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is made public today that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the man. "The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. ... |
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According to a letter from special Prosecutor Fitzgerald to I. Scooter Libby's lawyers, "Mr. Libby testified (to the grand jury) that he was authorized to disclose (classified) information ... to the press by his superiors." I. Scooter Libby was Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. |
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close associate of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to plead guilty to corruption, other charges, |
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Dennis Kozlowski, disgraced former head of Tyco and his ex-finance chief Mark Swartz are sentenced to eight-and-a-third to 25 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company. |
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Former police commissioner and one-time Bush Cabinet nominee Bernard Kerik announces he will leave Giuliani Partners, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm. |
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Fannie Mae, the US Mortgage financing giant, dismisses CEO Franklin Raines and CFO Timothy Howard in a scandal associated with accounting errors that require a complete restatement of earnings. |
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The American media reveals a two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order by which President Bush directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The FBI e-mail, which ... |
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Attorney Michael Kohn, who represents US Army Corps of Engineers Whistle-Blower Bunny Greenhouse, indicated that his client had met for a full day with the FBI and an investigator from the Pentagon's Criminal Investigative Division to discuss contracting abuses at Halliburton and KBR. |
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Comptroller General David Walker, with the Government Accountability Office, announces an investigation into voting iirregularities during the November 2nd US Presidential Election. He cautioned that the GAO cannot enforce the law if voting irregularities are found, noting that state officials regu ... |
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Jim Taricani, a television reporter with WJAR in Providence, RI is convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to say who gave him an FBI videotape showing Providence city official Frank Corrente, a top aide for Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr., taking an envelope stuffed with cash from an undercove ... |
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sues California insurance broker Universal Life Resources for taking kickbacks from MetLife, Prudential and UnumProvident. |
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U.S. State Department documents are revealed showing that Richard Jones, U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, intervened in December of 2003 to ensure that Halliburton, the oil services company once led by Vice President Dick Cheney, retained a Kuwaiti business as a subcontractor to deliver fuel to Iraq. "My ... |
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The Chinese government announces that its auditors have uncovered fraudulent transactions costing China's biggest state-owned commercial bank a total of 6.9 billion yuan or $850 million. |
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Halliburton Co. announces that it will pay $7.5 million to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it failed to disclose a 1998 accounting change at a time when Vice President Dick Cheney headed the company. The SEC did not charge Cheney, but did charge former Chief Financial ... |
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Spokespersons for Halliburton announce that it received a grand jury subpoena earlier this month seeking information about its Cayman Islands unit, which conducts operations in Iran. U.S. companies are prohibited by law from doing business with Iran. |
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Former Army chaplain, Marie DeYoung, who once defended the firm has recently audited accounts for Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR. She claims there was no effort to hold down costs because all costs were passed on directly to taxpayers. She repeatedly complained to superiors of waste and fraud. The ... |
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Martha Stewart sells all her 3,928 shares of ImClone stock on a tip that Sam Waksal's told his daughter to dump the stock in the wake of the FDA's announcement that it would not review ImClone's application for the promising new drug, Erbitux. |
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Robertson Stephens reiterated buy rating on AMD following the company's analyst meeting and belief that Athlon is driving processor revenue faster than expected. |
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The U.S. Department of Justice files its final Anti-trust suit against phone monopoly AT&T. It is this suit which will lead to the breakup of the Bell System and the creation of the Baby Bells. |
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GM President James Roche is forced to appear before a Senate subcommittee and apologize to Ralph Nader for its campaign of harassment, entrapment, and intimidation. |
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Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Using the logic that it would "encourage the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weaken the sturdiness of our national character," US President Grover Cleveland votes against the Texas Seed Bill to provide $10K worth of aid to drought stricken farmers. He will later use s ... |
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