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Midlevel insider drains millions from Defense Dept.
They huddled in a quiet corner at the US Airways lounge at Ronald Reagan National Airport, sipping bottomless cups of coffee as they plotted to turn America's missile defense program into a personal cash ...
D.C. Earmarks Can Actually Include Some Glatt Kosher 'Pork'
While Sen. John McCain was using the first presidential debate with Sen. Barack Obama to threaten to veto any legislation crossing his desk containing earmarks if he's elected president, his colleagues on ...
Career CIA Executive Pleads Guilty To One Bribery Charge
Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo , the former number three official at the CIA, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a bribery investigation related to the Randy Cunningham scandal .
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Banker sentenced in ex-congressman's bribery case
A New York banker has been sentenced to probation and community service on charges related to a corruption case against a former California congressman.
John Michael of Long Island was sentenced Thursday in federal court in California to five years' probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
Michael pleaded guilty to using his mortgage company to hide a half-million dollars in bribes paid by another businessman to former Congressman Duke Cunningham. He also said he lied to a grand jury.
Former CIA Director Porter Goss's Dusty Foggo Problem
On Monday, the CIA's former number three official, a former logistics officer named Dusty Foggo, pled guilty in a Virginia courtroom to one count of federal wire fraud.
Former #3 Cia guy pleads guilty Post Blog
It's our choices that got us here and our personal responsibility to effect repairs and do damage control.
No link in Lam's firing and Cunningham case, report says
A Justice Department report released Monday on the firing of nine U.S. attorneys found no evidence that former San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam was dismissed because of her office's investigation into former ...
Poker, Hookers, and Black Contracts: Or How To Make a CIA Trial Go Away
Yes, the stock market was falling apart , but up on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, you could almost hear the sighs of relief Monday thanks to another bit of news: Former top Agency ...
John Whitehead Commentary With what is going on with the Federal...
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." - 'Mark Twain Congress is in a blind rush to consider and most likely approve George ...
GOP: The Next Generation Posted by J.D. Dunn on 08.31.2008 Palin might not be the present, but she could be the future.
Another in a series of unique driver profiles by Randy Cunningham, from the pages of DRM Name a famous person that you wish you could've met.
Margaret Colson argues that being gay is worse than being corrupt , at least as far as our congressional leadership is concerned: Let's take a civics quiz.
Disgraced Rep. Jerry Lewis Solicits Lobbyists To Fund His Congressional Portrait
Rep. Jerry Lewis has been under investigation since May 2006 for his ties to contractors in the Duke Cunningham corruption scandal.
a Gop Choice: Tom Coburn or Ted Stevens
The Republican Party is facing what Ronald Reagan called "a time for choosing." A real argument is raging over how much it should turn its back on the bad habits that cost it control of Congress in 2006.
Once again this year, the nation has been treated to a major scandal involving a powerful, perhaps famous political personality.
Gay sex trumps corruption on Senate sin list
Let's take a civics quiz. In Congress which is worse: being corrupt or being gay? Time is up.
Dobbs falsely identified convicted former Republican Rep. Janklow as a Democrat
Summary: On CNN, Lou Dobbs asserted that "[f]ormer Congressman Bill Janklow, a Democrat from South Dakota, was convicted of striking and killing a motorcyclist with his car in 2003.
Sen. Ted Stevens, Political Corruption and the Seniority System
The indictment of Senator Ted Stevens, R - Alaska, again rubs the taxpayers' nose in the indignity of being fleeced by one of the very people elected to represent all of us in Washington and look after the ...
Beware of any pol with an airport named after him. Will Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport now have to be renamed? As the Alaska senator flies into it with seven graft-related indictments trailing him, ...
Felons Seeking Bush Pardon Near a Record
Michael Milken, the former junk bond king turned philanthropist, as he left Federal Court in Manhattan in April 1989.