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Chicago casino means corruption
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is promoting a casino at an undisclosed location over which he’d have incredible power. The bidding process to choose a vendor would be sealed, and records would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act until after the vendor...Tags: Freedom of Information Act, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor
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Term Limits commission hears research design, electoral history
Members of the Tinley Park Term Limits Commission continued to explore the issue at the group's third meeting, where more information was presented to the group. The commission, appointed by Mayor Ed Zabrocki after voters overwhelmingly voted in favor...Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Des Plaines, Naperville, Regional Authority
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NW Indiana politician denies federal corruption charges, slams 'relentless' investigation
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana politician indicted on federal corruption charges says he has done nothing wrong. Lake County Surveyor George Van Til pleaded not guilty to six felony counts of wire fraud and two counts of obstruction of...Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues
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Restraint is the new red in China
BEIJING — Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus to...
Tags: National Government, Politics, Luxury Vehicles, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Education
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U.S. charges 3 NYU researchers in Chinese bribery case
Reuters* Defendants were working on improving MRI technology * Federal prosecutors charge researchers with bribery By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities brought criminal charges against three New York University...Tags: Research, Corporate Crime, Defendants, Lawyers, FBI
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Point/Counterpoint: What's impact of IRS flap on Obama term?
Will the IRS scandal negatively affect President Barack Obama's second term? Washington correspondent Colby Itkowitz asks political analysts in Pennsylvania and Washington. YES Lara Brown Villanova University political science professor Q: Will...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Tea Party Movement
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core...Tags: National Government, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics, Humana Incorporated, Government Debt
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APG employee to serve six months for stealing from youth academy
A Middle River woman was sentenced last week to six months in jail for defrauding the federal government through the Freestate ChalleNGe Academy at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Lynn Carol Williams, 56, sentenced May 6 by U.S. District Judge Richard D....Tags: Aberdeen, Justice System, Rod J. Rosenstein, Credit and Debt, Judges
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As Trial Begins, Conflicting Portrait Of Donovan Finance Director Emerges
The Hartford CourantThe corruption trial of a top aide to former state House Speaker Christopher Donovan opened in federal court Monday with the jury listening to secretly made recordings of businessmen and political operatives scheming about how to pay bribes to kill...Tags: Christopher G Donovan, Politics, Corporate Crime, Trials, Lawyers
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Syria portrait master finds new audience
REYHANLI, Turkey — On the second floor of a nursery school in a Turkish border town, artist Nader Haj Kadour preferred talking about painting butterflies than painting Syrian President Bashar Assad. The classically trained Syrian artist pointed to...
Tags: Jackson Pollock, Turkey, Armed Forces, Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Ask adult patients about alcohol misuse: panel
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Primary care doctors should ask adults how much and how often they drink alcohol and counsel those with risky and dangerous drinking habits, a government-backed panel said today. Based on a review of studies conducted since...Tags: Internal Medicine, University of Missouri , Demographics, American Academy of Pediatrics, Medical Specialization
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O.C. supervisors deny $20,000 increase for grand jury
The first grand jury report described Orange County as being a "hotbed of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of authority" while the next blamed political leaders for the "implosion" of the county's health plan for the poor. This week, jurors...
Tags: Ethics, Justice System, Religion and Belief, Michael Carona, Values
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