ACORN..They have been charged with voter registration fraud this week and also there is video of their employess encouraging
tax fraud,underage child prostitution,filing false documents.etc.Look up the videos if you are in doubt..
Obama is
a big Acorn supporter and former legal counsel. Is the media in bed with Obama so much that they will not even report actual
news but continue the same old tiresome birther stories.This vile group Acorn is suppose to get 8.6 BILLION dollars of OUR
taxpayer money from this last joke of a stimulus package and the mainstream media isn't reporting any of this?
This group
is also suppose to help conduct the census in 2010,is this the type of corrupt people that most folks want to have our tax
money and be involved in helping out with our census?
I think that it is past time for American's to start holding our
media responsible for not doing their jobs.
Corruption and the Chicago Way
There are several things that don't make sense to me. Who commits suicide
with aspirin? Kelly is married, and yet Kelly's girlfriend found him in the middle of the night in a lumberyard in Country
Club Hills where there are storage units. The police now have subpoenas to search the lumberyard and storage units. Kelly's's
girlfriend drove him to the Oak Forest Hospital emergency room in Kelly's Cadillac Escalade. She has now lawyered up and will
not talk to the police. Kelly was taken to John Stroger Hospital at 4:30 a.m. and pronounced dead at 10:46 a.m.
I wouldn't
take my dog to Stroger hospital. It's where the homeless and welfare recipients go for treatment. How is that a multi-millionaire
with Machine connections gets transported there? Someone like Kelly should have been taken to Rush or Northwestern.
CCCVCongress buys 3 private jets for $200 million
posted by Ed Morrissey
over the arrival in Washinn DC of the CEOs of the three major American automakers in private jets? The
bumbling public relations of the Big Three gave elected officials an opportunity to indulge in populist spleen-venting at
rich fat cats and their greed. Public pressure pushed the automakers to dump their private fleets of corporate jets
and focus belt-tightening in the executive suites as well as on the manufacturing floor.
Who knew that Congress merely wanted to undercut price on their own purchase of private jets?
By David Theroux
The Washington Post has now reported that directly contrary to her repeated claims, a newly released intelligence memo indicates that less than a year after 9/11, Pelosi was fully briefed in
2002 about CIA torture techniques being used.
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation
to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative
contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California
Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the
agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.
Documents reviewed by The Washington Times show Mrs. Feinstein first offered Oct. 30 to help the FDIC secure
money for its effort to stem the rise of home foreclosures. Her letter was sent just days before the agency determined that
CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) - the commercial real estate firm that her husband Richard Blum heads as board chairman - had
won the competitive bidding for a contract to sell foreclosed properties that FDIC had inherited from failed banks.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes
Funding Fictitious Colleges and Students
Department of Education received an application to certify the student loan participation of
the Y-Hica Institute in London, England. After approving the certification, the department received and approved student loan
applications from three Y-Hica students and disbursed $55,000. The Education Department administrators
overlooked one problem: Neither the Y-Hica Institute nor the three students who received the $55,000 existed. The fictitious
college and students were created (on paper) by congressional investigators to test the Department of Educations verification
procedures. All of the documents were faked, right down to naming one of the fictional loan student applicants 'Susan
M. Collins,' after the Senator requesting the investigation. Such carelessness helps to explain why federal
student loan programs routinely receive poor management reviews from government auditors. At last count, $21.8 billion
worth of student loans are in default, and too many cases of fraud are left undetected. Tracking students across federal
programs, verifying loan application data with IRS income data, and implementing controls to prevent the disbursement
of loans to fraudulent applicants could save taxpayers billions of dollars.
Embezzled Funds at the Department of Agriculture
Federal employee credit card programs were designed to save money. Rather than weaving through a lengthy procurement
process to acquire basic supplies, federal employees could purchase job-related products with credit cards that would be paid
by their agency. What began as a smart way to streamline government has since been corrupted by some federal employees who
have abused the public trust.
A recent audit revealed that employees of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) diverted millions of dollars to
personal purchases through their government-issued credit cards. Sampling 300 employees’ purchases over six months,
investigators estimated that 15 percent abused their government credit cards at a cost of $5.8 million. Taxpayer-funded purchases
included Ozzy Osbourne concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie, bartender school tuition, car payments, and cash advances.
The USDA has pledged a thorough investigation, but it will have a huge task: 55,000 USDA credit cards are in circulation,
including 1,549 that are still held by people who no longer work at the USDA.[4]
AUSTIN, Texas – Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin
area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to
hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration,
a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients.
"What we're really trying to do is find out who's using our emergency rooms ... and find solutions," said
Ann Kitchen, executive director of the group, which presented the report
last week to the Travis County Healthcare District board.
The average emergency room visit costs $1,000. Hospitals and taxpayers paid the bill through government programs
such as Medicare and Medicaid, Kitchen said.
Eight of the nine patients have drug abuse problems, seven
were diagnosed with mental health issues and three were homeless. Five are women whose average age is
40, and four are men whose average age is 50, the report said, the Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday.
"It's a pretty significant issue," said Dr. Christopher Ziebell, chief of the emergency department
at University Medical Center at Brackenridge, which has the busiest ERs
in the area.
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In this July 13, 2008 file photo, the Freddie Mac's corporate offices are seen in McLean,
Va. When the U.S. government took over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers inherited more than bad debts.
They're also potentially on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in legal fees for the executives at the center of the
housing market's collapse. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
also on wtopnews.com
By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - When the government took over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers inherited more than just bad debts. They're also potentially on the hook for tens of millions of
dollars in legal fees for the executives at the center of the housing market's collapse.
With the Justice Department investigating companies involved in the mortgage and financial meltdown, executives around the country are hiring
defense lawyers. Like many large companies, Fannie and Freddie had contracts promising to cover legal bills for their executives.
When the Treasury Department delivered a $200 billion bailout to Fannie and Freddie, that obligation passed to the government, which may
find itself paying for the lawyers defending the executives against the government's own prosecutors.
Ex-Bear Stearns executive moves to Fed
Former chief risk officer at the defunct brokerage is now overseeing U.S.
banks for the Federal Reserve
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The former chief risk officer at investment bank Bear Stearns Cos., which
nearly collapsed in March, is now a senior official of the Federal Reserve division that supervises U.S. banks.
Michael Alix, who worked at Bear Stearns for 12 years and was its senior risk manager since
2006, was named a senior vice president in the bank supervision group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to
an announcement by the Fed.
The appointment is apt to raise questions because of the key role Alix played at Bear Stearns
and given the Federal Reserve's role in Bear Stearns' sale to JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM, Fortune 500) after its breathtaking slide. In his new job at the central bank, Alix will help oversee the
financial safety and soundness of banks, which are inspected by Federal Reserve examiners.
In March, with Bear Stearns on the brink of bankruptcy, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson -- with the involvement of Chairman Ben Bernanke and New York Fed President Timothy Geithner -- orchestrated
a buyout of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan. The deal was forged with a $29 billion federal backstop from the Fed.
Federal prosecutors have been investigating the conduct of Bear Stearns managers before its
blowup amid the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. Prosecutors have said they expect to bring additional criminal charges
against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers who were accused last summer of lying to investors. The eventual implosion
of the defendants' hedge funds cost investors $1.8 billion and began a domino effect that pushed Bear Stearns itself to the
brink.
Hathaway, a Wayne County Circuit Court judge nominated by the Democrats, is the first challenger to unseat
an incumbent justice since 1984.
The loss is a devastating blow to the Michigan Republican Party, which was braced for a bad night elsewhere
on the ticket but badly wanted to re-elect Taylor, who has been a critical member of the conservative majority that has ruled
the court the last decade.
Hathaway said her message, calling for a fair and impartial voice on the court, had resonated.
"I was working the polls all day," she said early in the evening, recounting voters telling her they voted
for her. "I was very encouraged."
Taylor was favored to win re-election because he had an incumbent designation on the ballot and was on the
nonpartisan ballot, theoretically inoculating him from the Democratic wave that swamped the state.
The race exploded in the last two weeks when the Michigan Democratic Party funded scathing ads labeling Taylor
"the Sleeping Judge," claiming he fell asleep during a case -- a charge Taylor and Republicans denounced as a lie.
Taylor said Democrats turned the race into a partisan contest, one his campaign staff said allowed President-elect
Barack Obama's landslide to have a spillover effect.
"I congratulate her on her victory," he said. "I'm surprised. ... I had not expected this to happen."
Despite Taylor's concession, Hathaway's campaign as of 12:30 a.m. declined to declare victory, pending further
results.
Republicans countered the assault by attacking Hathaway's record on crime and claiming that she once told
a newspaper she only wanted to serve on the state Court of Appeals to enhance her vacation time.
With 73% of the precincts reporting, Hathaway led with 49%- 40% for Taylor. Libertarian Robert Roddis had
11%.
Taylor has been a fixture of the Republican court majority that alternately has been hailed and castigated
during the past decade for its conservative rulings.
Business interests and Republicans said Taylor and his fellow conservatives have taken a more literal interpretation
of the law that has created a better climate to do business in Michigan.
But Democrats and plaintiffs' attorneys said Taylor has been part of a majority that has overturned years
of precedent and stacked the deck against individuals trying to sue businesses and government.
The court has five justices nominated for election by the Republican Party and two nominated by the Democrats.
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