Buzz-cut Bernie blubbers as judgment day comes

A Crime So Large It Changed the Law

Sentence’s message: Crime doesn’t pay

CEO of North America’s largest equipment renter mum on SEC investigation

Bank of America agrees to refunds for elderly investors

Company made $600 Million Phony Cheese Sales

SEC Probing Harley Statements

Auditors to present initial report on VW fraud probe

Ex-Qwest CFO pleads guilty to fraud

Thanks to Sue for the links!

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From The East African

It is puzzling that there is no mass movement on environmental degradation in the West similar to the whole “Make Poverty History” thing.

 The rich world is said to emit half of the planet’s carbon dioxide fumes, while Africa emits just 3 per cent. And the rich world continues to chase Africa’s scarce resources like fish, timber and minerals with reckless abandon.

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Rove told reporter of Plame’s role but didn’t name her, attorney says.

That is technically true, he identified her as the wife of Charles Wilson, and not by her name.

This ploy was known in the Nixon days as the “non-denial denial.” It’s generally the sign of a sleazy weasel who is losing his mojo.

We could be geting close to a recurrence of the Watergate days when, after it became apparent Nixon had been lying through his teeth for months, his press secretary said “our previous statements are non-operative.”

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Schwarzenegger paid 8 mil in conflict of interest

Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.

The contract pays Schwarzenegger 1% of the magazines’ advertising revenue, much of which comes from makers of nutritional supplements. Last year, the governor vetoed legislation that would have imposed government regulations on the supplement industry.

 Watchdog groups and state lawmakers called the contract — which refers to Schwarzenegger as “Mr. S” — a conflict of interest.

Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., said: “This is one of the most egregious apparent conflicts of interest that I have seen. This calls into question his judgment as to who he is working for, and it calls into question what he thinks he owes the public.”

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