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  • Cunningham Briber Wilkes befriended other legislators, ran a hospitality suite with several bedrooms
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In government documents, he is referred to as "co-conspirator No. 1": a man who gave more than $630,000 in cash and favors to former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham for help in landing millions of dollars in federal contracts.
    ADCS has received at least $80 million in government contracts since 1996. Its $11 million headquarters is located in Poway. Poway military contractor Brent Wilkes - whom Justice Department officials identify as the co-conspirator - has long been active in local (…)

  • The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    "Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.... While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." —Eugene V. Debs
    These words of the fabled social activist also define the life of NFL hall of famer and actor Jim Brown. He has mediated truces between the toughest gangs in Los Angeles and (…)

  • Wilkes Corporation is a fake company set up to funnel public funds from national defense to G.O.P.
    5 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deeper into the Wilkes/MZM scandals (Updated) (Note: If you came here by way of LiePar Destin’s excellent piece in Kos, you may want to read "Wilkes: The Invisible Empire" first. Also, I’m happy to report that this blockbuster piece on Wilkes in the San Diego Union Tribune strengthens the thesis presented here.) The good news is that reporters working for the mainstream media have caught on — in part. They understand that Randy "Duke" Cunningham is hardly the only Republican (…)

  • Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voting Rights Finding On Map Pushed by DeLay Was Overruled
    By Dan Eggen
    Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
    The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department’s voting section, said the redistricting (…)

  • Hollywood leads campaign for death row reprieve
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    Hollywood actors, musicians, church leaders and death penalty opponents staged protests and vigils across the US on behalf of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips street gang who faces execution in less than two weeks unless the California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can be persuaded to grant him clemency.
    The outpouring of support for "International Save Tookie Day" yesterday underlined the controversy surrounding Williams’s death sentence (…)

  • Alito Sketched Strategy to Overturn Roe in ’85
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Maura Reynolds and Richard B. Schmitt
    WASHINGTON - As a Reagan administration lawyer, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued forcefully against the high court’s landmark decision legalizing abortion and laid out a strategy to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
    In a lengthy 1985 memo, Alito - then an assistant solicitor general - urged the Justice Department to defend states seeking to put restrictions on the procedure, saying that the Supreme Court’s rulings did not mean that abortion (…)

  • Georgia’s Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julian Bond
    WASHINGTON (NNPA) - What is it with some people?
    Why do they persist in believing racial minorities are inveterate cheaters at the polls? What kind of racist criminal profiling takes place in their minds?
    Now comes Georgia State Rep. Sue Burmesiter (R-Augusta) telling the United States Department of Justice that if Black people in her district "are not paid to vote, they don’t go to the polls."
    She predicted that if a restrictive law she proposed was adopted, fewer (…)

  • Women find no shelter from violence at home: WHO
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urgent action is needed to tackle domestic violence against women, which is widespread, deep-rooted and largely hidden in a wide range of societies, a study by the UN health agency said.
    The study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 10 countries found that between 15 percent (Japan) and 71 percent (Ethiopia) of the women interviewed had been subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate male partner during their lifetime.
    From about one-fifth of women in (…)

  • As many as 60 U.S. Congressmen may be implicated in Bribery scandal
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
    Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican congressman and cheat several American Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars.
    Scanlon’s guilty plea-and even more his agreement to cooperate fully with federal prosecutors and testify (…)

  • CIA: Plame outed to disrupt probe into Bush/Israeli attempt to plant WMD in Iraq
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Goss refuses to give Fitzgerald CIA leak damage assessment
    Pentagon’s Wolfowitz and Feith espionage evidence before grand jury
    George Tenet granted partial immunity to testify against White House
    CIA: Plame outed to disrupt probe into Israeli attempt to plant WMD
    Probe of 10+ legislators, high officials tied to drugs and 9-11 finance before jury
    CIA Director Porter Goss is refusing to give special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a subpoenaed damage assessment report written by former (…)