Posts filed under “Corruption”
Here’s Hoping
Bad news for Stanford investors: The court-appointed receiver in control of the assets and operations of Stanford Group Co and two other firms controlled by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford told a federal court Monday that … he could likely only recover hundreds of millions of dollars of Stanford assets for investors instead of the billions [...]
Turning A Blind Eye To Guantanamo Abuse?
A lawyer for Guantanamo detainees is alleging that abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office: Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in” before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who [...]
Proving The Old Adage
The one about rising to your level of incompetence. Providing impressive proof is Porter Goss. He was incompetent enough to have risen to the level of CIA Director under George Bush. Which represents a doubly impressive level of incompetence, simply because of the amount of sheer incompetence that was going around during the Bush administration. [...]
The Deep Doo-Doo Diagnostic Test
As a public figure, how do you know when you’re in really deep doo-doo? How about when your spokesman decides that he can no longer spin your conduct, and resigns on you in the middle of an ongoing debacle? (To put this in perspective, just think of some of the conduct that spokesmen have gamely [...]
Buttercheeks Invokes Climate Change
Alberto “Buttercheeks” Gonzales, in a startling departure from Bushworld orthodoxy, conceded today that climate change is real. Here he is, speaking to David Weigel of The Washington Independent: I asked him whether he would participate in a “truth commission,” as proposed by Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), to look into alleged law-breaking by the Bush administration. [...]
Much Ado About What Exactly?
Murray Waas has a very long post in TPM (2610 words) titled “The Big Stone Wall: Nine Bush-Era Officials Refused To Cooperate With DOJ Probes“. TPM is promoting this at the top of their home page as an “exclusive”. I waded doggedly through the first ten paragraphs or so, without finding anything that struck me [...]
How Not To Catch A Thief
Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, accused of a $8 billion fraud, has apparently done a bunk: U.S. regulators don’t know the whereabouts of R. Allen Stanford, the billionaire accused of running a “massive, ongoing fraud” through his Houston-based Stanford Group Co., a Securities and Exchange Commission official said. “We don’t know where he is, quite [...]
Behind The Allen Stanford Scam: The Real Hero
The SEC swooped down on R. Allen Stanford yesterday: The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged R. Allen Stanford, a prominent Texas businessman, and three companies under his control with carrying out a “massive, ongoing fraud” involving the sale of $8 billion in certificates of deposit. The case is one of the largest alleged financial [...]
Major League Farceball
I confessed a few years ago how I used to be a big-time baseball fan for many years. I did redeem myself by coming to realize that MLB was essentially just a slicker version of WWE, only with much better PR, and an entirely undeserved amount of national goodwill. I have for many years now [...]
Michael S. Steele Investigated By Feds
Sounds very much like the Republican National Committee should adopt some kind of vetting procedure for candidates for the Chairman’s post. If newly elected chairman Michael S. Steele (apparently, the S. doesn’t stand for Sleazeball) had been vetted before the election, maybe the RNC wouldn’t now be wiping egg from its face with a very [...]