Articles Tagged “corruption”
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Gun Patriotism or Hypocrisy?
Puzzling me for a long time is the inconsistency between two claims by gun and Second Amendment supporters. One is that what they worship is critically needed to defend themselves against a government that they would view as oppressive and unacceptable.
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Whistleblower: San Francisco Garbage Company Defrauded State of California Out of Millions
A former employee turned whistleblower leveled serious charges of fraud, embezzlement and corruption Thursday against San Francisco-based Recology, accusing the unregulated garbage collection monopoly of bilking the State of California and taxpayers out of millions of dollars.
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Mayor Lee Testifies in Corruption Lawsuit
That Could Cost the City $10 MillionCity and County of San Francisco vs. Cobra Solutions and Telecon was being deliberated by jurors in Superior Court at press time. It centers on a fraud and kickback scheme engineered by convicted felon Marcus Armstrong, a former Department of Building Inspection information technology manager who bilked the city out of at least $482,000 between 1999 and 2001.
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Why Did Baby Doc Duvalier Return to Haiti?
In 1991, five years after Baby Doc fled, Haitians elected a priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who resisted the IMF’s austerity dictates. Within months, the military, with a wink and a nod from George HW Bush, deposed him. In 2004, after Aristide was re-elected President, he was kidnapped and removed again with a wink and nod, this time, from George W. Bush. He is now in exile in South Africa. As a simple matter of justice, we owe Haiti billions, not just the $1.5 billion promised by President Obama. We helped break it, therefore we must fix it.
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Prosecutors reject Jew motion
for evidentiary hearing
“Jew’s factual assumptions are demonstrably false”Prosecutors asked a federal judge Tuesday to reject a bid by former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew – who resigned his post amid allegations of corruption – for an evidentiary hearing into possible misconduct in…
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