Like Steroids, should Congress investigate major sports fixing?
After witnessing the rape, er, Super Bowl today I have to wonder: Is the NFL fixed? Now many of you are going to jump to the conclusion that I'm a bitter fan, but not so. Even the commentators can...
View ArticleBREAKING - EXXONMOBIL NEEDS OUR MONEY - PLEASE HELP
Hahaha, too funny. I got hit with this email at work (sent officially, with my title and capacity and all the hoopla...): TRIBUTE Celbrating the Stewardship and Role of Mr. Lee R. Raymond to ExxonMobil...
View ArticlePalast: how Bush et al increased their legal liability with...
Greg Palast, in a guest editorial he wrote for Buzzflash, picks up the legal thread spun last week by the administration and and from his perspective as a past federal investigator he outlines the web...
View ArticleRacketeers Cannot be Trusted on Net Neutrality
This is a somewhat difficult diary for me. I've stayed away from the pro-"net neutrality" frenzy because, frankly, I was opposed to it. I believe prices can often allocate scarce resources efficiently....
View ArticleCoughing It Up Small
Big tobacco wins again as an angry federal judge denounces the industry in terms usually reserved for pedophiles and mass murders but can't impose any real penalties.
View ArticleI think Paul Krugman reads Daily Kos, but the NY Times shrugs
This morning, much to my delight, Paul Krugman has devoted his column in the New York Times to the UnitedHealth racketeering lawsuit I wrote about yesterday. In a column entitled The Health Care Racket...
View ArticleWhat does Vick's vicious stupidity say of our Overall Morality? What should...
What does Vick's vicious stupidity say of our Overall Morality? What should happen to him? Can his case help society if handled right? I have been caught up with our crumbling...
View ArticleDo We Have the Guts to Convict Them After They Leave Office?
No one is above the law. Not a President, not his cronies, not his corporate enablers. What has happened during the reign of the George W. Bush administration is beyond is anything that any of us could...
View ArticleCheney Indictments and Racketeering Musings
David Smith: a whistleblower by any other name.
View ArticleThe case for murder and RICO indictments against Stewart Parnell
We already know that Stewart Parnell better have a lawyer on speed dial for his (in the words of Rosa DeLauro) "reprehensible and criminal" behavior. A lot of people have suggested--quite rightly, in...
View ArticleWho can try Bush administration torture conspirers?
In view of the latest releases of torture related documents from the Bush-Cheney era and the concomitant outrage they have engendered, it seems fitting to explore the varieties of legal redress that...
View ArticleEnd Pro-life Racketeering and Terrorism Now!
Enough is enough! Abortion is legal and pro-life groups who target the providers are not protected by the 1st amendment by conspiring to, and engaging in disruption of commerce. Their tactics are fear...
View ArticleLobbyists' Intimidation Tactics No Laughing Matter
Mocking corporate anti-reform lobbyists for making up stories about death panels and other frightening falsehoods is a good start, but only a start. The lies Betsy McCaughey and her accomplices tell...
View ArticleWSJ: SEC Wall St. Fraud Probes Intensify, U.S. Towns Pillaged (updated)
Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal expands upon ProPublica's breaking follow-up story on the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) filing of civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs on Friday....
View ArticleGoldman Sachs = New style Racketeers?
Racketeers? Racketeering? Does that really fit the situation? The rackets were traditionally Protection and numbers... "businesses" run by organized crime. And the key part of the definition in...
View ArticleTaibbi, Naked Capitalism Re: Our Bipartisan "Fraudemocracy"
Hindsight is 20/20. (And, what we're seeing, clearly, in the rearview mirror is pretty damn ugly.) We live in a nation bursting at the seams with fraud. For the purposes of this diary, I'm calling it...
View ArticleDon't use the Patriot Act on Terry Jones, RICO him!
At least one person on here has argued that now that David Petraeus has stated "Pastor" Terry Jones' planned Quran burning would endanger the troops, Jones should be punished under the Patriot Act. As...
View ArticleGrayson Untangles the Web of Fraud in the 'Foreclosure Mills'
Citigroup, Ally Sued for Racketeering Over Database Bloomberg By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Thom Weidlich - Oct 4, 2010 Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. units were sued by homeowners in Kentucky...
View ArticleThe Housing Bust's Enron
Eighteen months ago William Black was interviewed by Bill Moyers on PBS. The subject of the interview was fraud. WILLIAM K. BLACK - when we look at these liar's loans, we find 90 percent fraud. 90...
View ArticleWhy We Have Filed Racketeering Charges vs. Karl Rove's Election Operations
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck has filed a two-count complaint against The Partnership for Ohio's Future, an affiliate of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce....
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