You are here: Fairness.com > Resources > Government & Politics / History > Government (General) > Government scandals/corruption

Government scandals/corruption

Categories underneath Government scandals/corruption:

• Independent Counsel

Search only Government scandals/corruption, and everything underneath:

Articles and Resources

405 Articles and Resources. Go to:  [Next 50]   [End]

Date	Fairness.com Resource	Read it at:
Jun 17, 2010	Interior inspector general expected to fault oil spill probe QUOTE: Elected officials should consider imposing ethics rules on oil and gas companies that do business with the federal government, the Interior Department's acting inspector general plans to tell the House Natural Resources Committee...	Washington Post
Jun 11, 2010	To Save Africa, Reject Its Nations QUOTE: Buttressed by the legality and impunity that international sovereignty conferred upon their actions, too many of Africa’s politicians and officials twisted the normal activities of a state beyond recognition, transforming mundane tasks like policing, lawmaking and taxation into weapons of extortion.	New York Times
Jun 11, 2010	Who’s Alvin Greene? State Asks After Vote QUOTE: everyone wants to know how Mr. Greene, an unemployed Army veteran who had been completely unknown until Tuesday, inexplicably defeated a heavily favored former legislator and judge to become the state’s Democratic nominee for the Senate — and the state’s latest political circus act.	New York Times
Jun 03, 2010	Russia Turns a Deaf Ear as Killing Cries for Justice QUOTE: Magomed Yevloyev was openly feuding with the region’s leader, Murat M. Zyazikov, when the two men happened to board the same flight from Moscow. Barely half an hour after the police escorted Mr. Yevloyev, 36, off the plane, he was dropped off at a hospital with an execution-style wound....Almost two years later, the case serves as a lesson in how the legal process can be strangled.	New York Times
May 25, 2010	Rep. James Moran's investments illustrate Congress's leeway in trading QUOTE: Long-standing congressional ethics rules allow almost any kind of trading and investment, subject in general to the judgment of individual lawmakers. Those rules also allow spouses to have jobs in areas that touch on a lawmaker's activity or investments. Moreover, lawmakers are not required to abstain from voting or divest themselves of stock when most potential conflicts arise.	Washington Post
May 25, 2010	Crisis Places Focus on Beleaguered Agency’s Chief QUOTE: there is uncertainty about whether she is up to the task of remaking the Minerals Management Service, an agency widely recognized as one of the most dysfunctional in government. Agency scientists and other employees complained that since taking the post in July, Ms. Birnbaum has done almost nothing to fix problems that have plagued the minerals agency for over a decade.	New York Times
May 25, 2010	Former Exile Holds Power in West African Nation QUOTE: the United States Treasury Department prepared to declare him a drug kingpin and a major figure in the international narcotics trade....The president [of Guinea-Bissau] is still nominally in charge, but officials in the region worry that the nation has effectively fallen into the hands of a drug baron.	New York Times
May 24, 2010	Experts: Accused Jamaican drug lord akin to Robin Hood, Pablo Escobar QUOTE: Coke, 41, rules via a combination of violence, corruption and philanthropy, experts say, and the unrest in the Jamaican capital this week is a result of competing interests: those who want him handed over for drug crimes versus those who consider him a benefactor.	CNN (Cable News Network)
May 24, 2010	Shaky Rule in Madagascar Threatens Trees QUOTE: MAROANSETRA, Madagascar — Exploiting a political crisis, Malagasy timber barons are robbing this island nation of its sylvan heritage, illegally cutting down scarce species of rosewood trees in poorly protected national parks...	New York Times
May 22, 2010	Escape Attempt Led to Killings of Unarmed Inmates QUOTE: Haitian officials here say they did not use lethal force but rather found lifeless bodies when they entered the prison....But an investigation by The New York Times casts doubt on the official version of events...	New York Times
May 17, 2010	Russian Journalists, Fighting Graft, Pay in Blood QUOTE: the violence was an omen, beginning a wave of unsolved attacks and official harassment against journalists, human rights activists and opposition politicians around the region, which includes the Moscow suburbs, but not the city itself. Rarely, if ever, is anyone held responsible.	New York Times
May 13, 2010	U.N. head Ban Ki-Moon refusing orders from internal personnel court QUOTE: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has refused to comply with numerous orders from a new U.N. personnel tribunal to hand over confidential documents and other sensitive information needed to resolve legal claims by U.N. employees of unfair treatment...	Washington Post
Apr 17, 2010	Graft Probe Heats Up Bingo Issue in Alabama QUOTE: ...Alabama learned that its hottest issue — whether electronic bingo is illegal gambling, or a harmless way to raise revenue for governments and charities — had become the subject of a federal criminal investigation. Even by the normally unsightly standards of Alabama politics, the fight had become downright ugly.	New York Times
Mar 29, 2010	Afghan corruption: How to follow the money? QUOTE: a Defense Department contract worth up to $360 million to transport U.S. military goods through some of the most insecure territory in Afghanistan. But his company has no trucks. Instead, Wardak sits atop a murky pyramid of Afghan subcontractors who provide the vehicles and safeguard their passage. U.S. military officials say they are satisfied with the results, but they concede that they have little knowledge or control over where the money ends up.	Washington Post
Mar 03, 2010	Rangel Steps Aside From Post During Ethics Inquiry QUOTE: Representative Charles B. Rangel stepped down on Wednesday as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee after losing support within his party because of ethics violations....The ethics panel is still investigating more serious accusations regarding Mr. Rangel’s fund-raising, his failure to pay federal taxes on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic and his use of four rent-stabilized apartments provided by a Manhattan real estate developer.	New York Times
Mar 03, 2010	Paterson’s Ethics Breach Is Turned Over to Prosecutors QUOTE: Gov. David A. Paterson falsely testified under oath during an ethics investigation into his acceptance of free World Series tickets last fall, according to the State Commission on Public Integrity, which announced on Wednesday that it had asked prosecutors to determine if criminal charges should be brought against the governor.	New York Times
Feb 27, 2010	Ethics panel clears 7 on earmarks QUOTE: the ethics committee declared that lawmakers are free to raise campaign money from the very companies they are benefiting so long as the deciding factors in granting those "earmarks" are "criteria independent" of the contributions. The report served as a blunt rejection of ethics watchdogs and a different group of congressional investigators, who have contended that in some instances the connection between donations and earmarks was so close that it had to be inappropriate.	Washington Post
Feb 27, 2010	Inquiry sought into disappearance of e-mails in interrogations case QUOTE: Senior Democratic lawmakers and watchdog groups demanded Friday that the Justice Department investigate the disappearance of e-mail messages written by Bush administration lawyers who drafted memos blessing harsh interrogation tactics, saying their absence cast doubt on an ethics report that cleared the lawyers of professional misconduct.	Washington Post
Nov 17, 2009	Paying Off the Warlords: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption QUOTE: Afghan political analysts observe that Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid are striking examples of the multimillion-dollar business conglomerates, financed by American as well as Afghan tax dollars and connected to powerful political figures, that have... emerged as part of a pervasive culture of corruption here.	TomDispatch
Oct 28, 2009	At U.N., contractor's case again raises questions about nepotism: Internal investigation will examine whether official abused authority QUOTE: There are no hard figures on nepotism and favoritism at the United Nations, but the ranks of the U.N. Secretariat and U.N. agencies include scores of children and grandchildren of the organization's luminaries and foreign diplomats.	Washington Post
Oct 26, 2009	A congressman, a lobbying firm and a swift path to earmarks: Democrat supported funds for tech companies, many of which supported him QUOTE: Federal investigators are scrutinizing [Representative Peter J.] Visclosky's earmarks and whether a member of his staff tried to raise campaign money by promising funding.	Washington Post
Oct 24, 2009	Why Russians Ignore Ballot Fraud QUOTE: The apparent brazenness of the fraud and the absence of a spirited reaction says a lot about the deep apathy in Russia, where people grew disillusioned with politics under Communism and have seen little reason to alter their view.	New York Times
Oct 22, 2009	Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House: How much do policymakers shape the science that comes out of government agencies? QUOTE: the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that significant editing of science documents had occurred during [Jim] Connaughton's tenure [of the Council on Environmental Quality] and the issue remains fraught with controversy: Just how much editing of government-funded science was done, and will it continue in future?	Scientific American
Oct 19, 2009	Investment firm dares to cry corruption in Russia: British company outlines tax fraud's many accomplices QUOTE: Hermitage Capital Management, once the largest foreign investor in the Russian stock market, is escalating its campaign to force the Kremlin to punish officials suspected of stealing $230 million from the government last year...	Washington Post
Oct 19, 2009	How the Afghan Election Was Rigged QUOTE: No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country's presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots.	Time Magazine
Oct 11, 2009	On Cluttered Ballots of India, Families Proliferate QUOTE: political dynasties, large and small, have proliferated so rapidly [in India] that many analysts believe nepotism is corroding the political system.	New York Times
Oct 03, 2009	Questions on Executions Mount in India QUOTE: The sensational case [of Indian police killing an innocent woman] has fed a heated national debate about the longstanding Indian police practice of killing suspects.	New York Times
Oct 01, 2009	Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Flags Over Ethics QUOTE: Several experts say those activities [of Senator John Ensign] may have violated an ethics law that bars senior aides from lobbying the Senate for a year after leaving their posts.	New York Times
Sep 24, 2009	F.D.A. Reveals It Fell to a Push by Lawmakers QUOTE: The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that four New Jersey congressmen and its own former commissioner unduly influenced the process that led to its decision last year to approve a patch for injured knees, an approval it is now revisiting.	New York Times
Sep 20, 2009	Diplomatic Immunity Leaves Abused Workers in Shadows QUOTE: A July 2008 Government Accountability Office report identified 42 cases of abuse by diplomats over an eight-year period but emphasized that the actual number was probably higher.	Washington Post
Sep 19, 2009	Some Chinese parents say their babies were stolen for adoption QUOTE: [in China] some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping -- sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.	Los Angeles Times
Sep 16, 2009	A third of Karzai votes may be fraudulent, EU official says: The EU's monitor for Afghanistan election suggests that 1.1 million of the incumbent president's votes must be investigated. QUOTE: The Afghan elections... received another body blow Wednesday when the head of the European Union's election-monitoring commission said that as many as 1.1 million votes cast in the vote were "suspect."	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 13, 2009	In Iraq's prisons, a culture of abuse QUOTE: ...Iraq's national detention system as a whole has been harshly criticized by Western human rights organizations.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 03, 2009	Son of Late Gabon Leader Declared Winner in Vote QUOTE: The Bongo family extended its 41-year reign over this resource-rich country on Thursday as the son of Africa’s longest-serving ruler was declared the winner of a disputed presidential election.	New York Times
Sep 02, 2009	Report Details How Madoff’s Web Ensnared S.E.C. QUOTE: “despite numerous credible and detailed complaints,” the S.E.C. never took “the necessary, but basic, steps to determine if [Bernard L.] Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme.”	New York Times
Aug 25, 2009	Probe: New Orleans flood control pumps not reliable QUOTE: Huge flood-control pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina don't protect the city adequately and the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs by buying proven equipment, a federal investigation finds.	USA TODAY
Aug 24, 2009	Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations QUOTE: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects...	Washington Post
Aug 24, 2009	Karzai Opponent Alleges 'Widespread' Voter Fraud QUOTE: The allegations of fraud, combined with the slow pace of vote tabulation and the cumbersome process for investigating complaints, are raising political tensions as the nation [Afghanistan] waits to see whether its second presidential election will produce a result that Afghans can trust.	Washington Post
Aug 24, 2009	Report Cites Abuse at State Juvenile Prison Centers QUOTE: Children at four juvenile detention centers in New York were so severely abused by workers that it constituted a violation of their constitutional rights, according to a report by the United States Department of Justice made public on Monday.	New York Times
Aug 22, 2009	Ridge's Telling Tale, or Just Another Tell-All? QUOTE: There is something about the Beltway culture that seems to discourage protest resignations. Instead, the well-worn path is to collect your grievances, find a publisher, hit the talk-show circuit and recast yourself as a painfully honest critic of the administration you once saluted.	Washington Post
Aug 21, 2009	VA Reports Detail Misconduct By IT Officials QUOTE: Two reports issued by the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs point to a range of misconduct in the agency's IT department in recent years...	InformationWeek
Aug 20, 2009	CIA Hired Firm for Assassin Program: Blackwater Missions Against Al-Qaeda Never Began, Ex-Officials Say QUOTE: A secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA...	Washington Post
Aug 20, 2009	A very British coup: The Turks and Caicos loses independence QUOTE: THE self-rule that the Turks and Caicos islands have enjoyed for 33 years was taken away on August 14th, when Britain removed their elected premier, cabinet and assembly, and suspended most of their constitution.	Economist
Aug 20, 2009	Tom Ridge kisses and tells on Bush’s ‘terror levels’ (The Vote Blog) QUOTE: [former head of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge] says two top Bush officials – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft – pressured him to up the terror alert level before the 2004 election...	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 16, 2009	Doctored Data Cast Doubt on Argentina: Economists Dispute Inflation Numbers QUOTE: in a globalized world, where a pensioner in Italy might be as likely to invest in Argentina as in Fiat, the suspected modifications [of socioeconomic data by the Argentinian agency National Institute of Statistics] are being felt far beyond this city [Buenos Aires].	Washington Post
Aug 12, 2009	DynCorp Billed U.S. $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract QUOTE: A Defense Department auditor testified Tuesday that DynCorp International billed the government $50 million more than the amount specified in a contract to provide dining facilities and living quarters for military personnel in Kuwait.	Washington Post
Aug 12, 2009	A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails ("Interrogation Inc. part 2 of 2) QUOTE: The existence of the network of prisons to detain and interrogate senior operatives of Al Qaeda has long been known, but details about them have been a closely guarded secret... [The former European supply chief for the C.I.A. Kyle D. Foggo] Mr. Foggo acknowledged a role, which has never been previously reported.	New York Times
Aug 11, 2009	Transcripts, E-Mails Detail Campaign to Oust U.S. Attorney QUOTE: The dismissal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats, according to newly released e-mails and transcripts of closed-door House testimony by former Bush counsel Harriet Miers and political chief Karl Rove.	Washington Post
Aug 11, 2009	The Sheik Down: How the Pentagon bought stability in Iraq by funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to the country's next generation of strongmen. QUOTE: Eifan is a beneficiary of what some American personnel call the "make-a-sheikh" program, a semiofficial, little discussed policy that since late 2006 has bankrolled Sunni sheikhs who are, in theory, committed to defending American interests in Iraq... It was also a reinstitution of a strategy started by Saddam Hussein, who picked out tribal leaders he could manipulate through patronage schemes.	Mother Jones
Aug 11, 2009	How America Is Funding Corruption in Pakistan: Graft is on the rise in Islamabad, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. QUOTE: For the last eight years, U.S. taxpayers' money has funded hardly any bona fide counterterrorism successes, but quite a bit of corruption in the Pakistani Army and intelligence services.

405 Articles and Resources. Go to:  [Next 50]   [End]

Please send your comments and suggestions to the Webmaster. © copyright 1999-2009, Fairness.com LLC.
"Fairness.com" and "Life isn't fair... but we're working on it" are service marks of Fairness.com LLC. All rights reserved.