JUDICIAL WATCH
Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009
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Washington, DC Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 “Ten Most Corrupt” list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV): A number of scandals popped up in 2009 involving public officials who conducted illicit affairs, and then attempted to cover them up with hush payments and favors, an obvious abuse of power. The year’s worst offender might just be Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign. Ensign admitted in June to an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff members, who then allegedly obtained special favors from the Nevada Republican in exchange for his silence. According to The New York Times: “The Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee are expected to conduct preliminary inquiries into whether Senator John Ensign violated federal law or ethics rules as part of an effort to conceal an affair with the wife of an aide…” The former staffer, Douglas Hampton, began to lobby Mr. Ensign's office immediately upon leaving his congressional job, despite the fact that he was subject to a one-year lobbying ban. Ensign seems to have ignored the law and allowed Hampton lobbying access to his office as a payment for his silence about the affair. (These are potentially criminal offenses.) It looks as if Ensign misused his public office (and taxpayer resources) to cover up his sexual shenanigans.
3. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): Judicial Watch is investigating a $12 million TARP cash injection provided to the Boston-based OneUnited Bank at the urging of Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank. As reported in the January 22, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal, the Treasury Department indicated it would only provide funds to healthy banks to jump-start lending. Not only was OneUnited Bank in massive financial turmoil, but it was also "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses, including owning a Porsche for its executives' use." Rep. Frank admitted he spoke to a "federal regulator," and Treasury granted the funds. (The bank continues to flounder despite Frank’s intervention for federal dollars.) Moreover, Judicial Watch uncovered documents in 2009 that showed that members of Congress for years were aware that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were playing fast and loose with accounting issues, risk assessment issues and executive compensation issues, even as liberals led by Rep. Frank continued to block attempts to rein in the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs). For example, during a hearing on September 10, 2003, before the House Committee on Financial Services considering a Bush administration proposal to further regulate Fannie and Freddie,Rep. Frank stated: "I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two Government Sponsored Enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis. We have recently had an accounting problem with Freddie Mac that has led to people being dismissed, as appears to be appropriate. I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury." Frank received $42,350 in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac between 1989 and 2008. Frank also engaged in a relationship with a Fannie Mae Executive while serving on the House Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
4. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner: In 2009, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted that he failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes from 2001-2004 on his lucrative salary at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization with 185 member countries that oversees the global financial system. (Did we mention Geithner now runs the IRS?) It wasn’t until President Obama tapped Geithner to head the Treasury Department that he paid back most of the money, although the IRS kindly waived the hefty penalties. In March 2009, Geithner also came under fire for his handling of the AIG bonus scandal, where the company used $165 million of its bailout funds to pay out executive bonuses, resulting in a massive public backlash. Of course as head of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner helped craft the AIG deal in September 2008. However, when the AIG scandal broke, Geithner claimed he knew nothing of the bonuses until March 10, 2009. The timing is important. According to CNN: “Although Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told congressional leaders on Tuesday that he learned of AIG's impending $160 million bonus payments to members of its troubled financial-products unit on March 10, sources tell TIME that the New York Federal Reserve informed Treasury staff that the payments were imminent on Feb. 28. That is ten days before Treasury staffers say they first learned ‘full details’ of the bonus plan, and three days before the [Obama] Administration launched a new $30 billion infusion of cash for AIG.” Throw in another embarrassing disclosure in 2009 that Geithner employed “household help” ineligible to work in the United States, and it becomes clear why the Treasury Secretary has earned a spot on the “Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington” list.
This guy is a real jewel!
5. Attorney General Eric Holder: Tim Geithner can be sure he won’t be hounded about his tax-dodging by his colleague Eric Holder, US Attorney General. Judicial Watch strongly opposed Holder because of his terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI investigation of the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple requests for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses by then-Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House; undermining the criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the midst of the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro’s Cuba. Moreover, there is his soft record on terrorism. Holder bypassed Justice Department procedures to push through Bill Clinton’s scandalous presidential pardons and commutations, including for 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican terrorist group that orchestrated approximately 120 bombings in the United States, killing at least six people and permanently maiming dozens of others, including law enforcement officers. His record in the current administration is no better. As he did during the Clinton administration, Holder continues to ignore serious incidents of corruption that could impact his political bosses at the White House. For example, Holder has refused to investigate charges that the Obama political machine traded VIP access to the White House in exchange for campaign contributions – a scheme eerily similar to one hatched by Holder’s former boss, Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The Holder Justice Department also came under fire for dropping a voter intimidation case against theNew Black Panther Party. On Election Day 2008, Black Panthers dressed in paramilitary garb threatened voters as they approached polling stations. Holder has also failed to initiate a comprehensive Justice investigation of the notorious organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), which is closely tied to President Obama. There were allegedly more than 400,000 fraudulent ACORN voter registrations in the 2008 campaign. And then there were thejournalist videos catching ACORN Housing workers advising undercover reporters on how to evade tax, immigration, and child prostitution laws. Holder’s controversial decisions on new rights for terrorists and his attacks on previous efforts to combat terrorism remind many of the fact that his former law firm has provided and continues to provide pro bono representation to terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Holder’s politicization of the Justice Department makes one long for the days of Alberto Gonzales.
6. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL): One of the most serious scandals of 2009 involved a scheme by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell President Obama’s then-vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Two men caught smack dab in the middle of the scandal: Senator Roland Burris, who ultimately got the job, and Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, emissaries for Jesse Jackson Jr., named "Senate Candidate A" in the Blagojevich indictment, reportedly offered $1.5 million to Blagojevich during a fundraiser if he named Jackson Jr. to Obama's seat. Three days later federal authorities arrested Blagojevich. Burris, for his part, apparently lied about his contacts with Blagojevich, who was arrested in December 2008 for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat. According to Reuters: “Roland Burris came under fresh scrutiny…after disclosing he tried to raise money for the disgraced former Illinois governor who named him to the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama…In the latest of those admissions, Burris said he looked into mounting a fundraiser for Rod Blagojevich -- later charged with trying to sell Obama's Senate seat -- at the same time he was expressing interest to the then-governor's aides about his desire to be appointed.” Burris changed his story five times regarding his contacts with Blagojevich prior to the Illinois governor appointing him to the U.S. Senate. Three of those changing explanations came under oath.
7. President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration “lowlights” from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the President’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade "artists" to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the ideaemerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation. President Obama has installed a record number of "czars" in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions). Under the President’s bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control -- through fiat and threats -- large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: “The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.” Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors – this is Obama’s “ethics” record -- and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency.
8. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): At the heart of the corruption problem in Washington is a sense of entitlement. Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline. These documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, include internal Pentagon email correspondence detailing attempts by Pentagon staff to accommodate Pelosi's numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker's 11th hour cancellations and changes. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also came under fire in April 2009, when she claimed she was never briefed about the CIA's use of the waterboarding technique during terrorism investigations. The CIA produced a report documenting a briefing with Pelosi on September 4, 2002, that suggests otherwise. Judicial Watch also obtained documents, including a CIA Inspector General report, which further confirmed that Congress was fully briefed on the enhanced interrogation techniques. Aside from her own personal transgressions, Nancy Pelosi has ignored serious incidents of corruption within her own party, including many of the individuals on this list. (See Rangel, Murtha, Jesse Jackson, Jr., etc.)
9. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven: Rep. John Murtha made headlines in 2009 for all the wrong reasons. The Pennsylvania congressman is under federal investigation for his corrupt relationship with the now-defunct defense lobbyist PMA Group. PMA, founded by a former Murtha associate, has been the congressman's largest campaign contributor. Since 2002, Murtha has raised $1.7 million from PMA and its clients. And what did PMA and its clients receive from Murtha in return for their generosity? Earmarks -- tens of millions of dollars in earmarks. In fact, even with all of the attention surrounding his alleged influence peddling, Murtha kept at it. Following an FBI raid of PMA's offices earlier in 2009, Murtha continued to seek congressional earmarks for PMA clients, while also hitting them up for campaign contributions. According to The Hill, in April, "Murtha reported receiving contributions from three former PMA clients for whom he requested earmarks in the pending appropriations bills." When it comes to the PMA scandal, Murtha is not alone. As many as six other Members of Congress are currently under scrutiny according to The Washington Post. They include: Peter J. Visclosky (D-IN.), James P. Moran Jr. (D-VA), Norm Dicks (D-WA.), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), C.W. Bill Young (R-FL.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-KS.). Of course rather than investigate this serious scandal, according to Roll Call House Democrats circled the wagons, "cobbling together a defense to offer political cover to their rank and file.” The Washington Post also reported in 2009 that Murtha’s nephew received $4 million in Defense Department no-bid contracts: "Newly obtained documents…show Robert Murtha mentioning his influential family connection as leverage in his business dealings and holding unusual power with the military.”
10. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): Rangel, the man in charge of writing tax policy for the entire country, has yet to adequately explain how he could possibly "forget" to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income he earned from his off-shore rental property. He also faces allegations that he improperly used his influence to maintain ownership of highly coveted rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, and misused his congressional office to fundraise for his private Rangel Center by preserving a tax loophole for an oil drilling company in exchange for funding. On top of all that, Rangel recently amended his financial disclosure reports, which doubled his reported wealth. (He somehow “forgot” about $1 million in assets.) And what did he do when the House Ethics Committee started looking into all of this? He apparently resorted to making "campaign contributions" to dig his way out of trouble. According to WCBS TV, a New York CBS affiliate: “The reigning member of Congress' top tax committee is apparently ‘wrangling’ other politicos to get him out of his own financial and tax troubles...Since ethics probes began last year the 79-year-old congressman has given campaign donations to 119 members of Congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are charged with investigating him.” Charlie Rangel should not be allowed to remain in Congress, let alone serve as Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and he knows it. That’s why he felt the need to disburse campaign contributions to Ethics Committee members and other congressional colleagues
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They give illegal aliens credity cards and treat customer like low life. We have a sworn statement by A customer of Bank of Aneruica in Century City that has been
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LOCK DOWN TO LITTLE TO LATE: CAMPUS MASSACRE
Campus
WORST SHOOTING IN AMERICAN HISTORY VIRGINIA TECH SCHOOL SHOOTING
Shooter
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May he burn in the deepest Part of Hell
Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a student and native of South Korea,
Deranged & A psychopath.
IN MEMORY OF THESE FUTURE SCHOLARS & PROFESSORS
WHO KNEW AND WHY WAS LOCK DOWN TO LATE? 32 KNOWN DEATHS INCLUDING THE GUNMAN/ NUMEROUS INJURIES FROM SHOOTING AND STUDENTS JUMPING OUT OF WINDOWS FROM NORRIS HALL. AUTHORITIES CLAIMS THAT THE FIRST SHOOTING WAS ISOLATED. BOY WERE THEY WRONG AGAIN. Why wasn't Cho medical records revealed to his suite roommates. after learning that Cho burned down a room in a dorm and stalked two ladies you would think the Virginia Tech personal could of avoided this blood shed.
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GOVERNOR CLAIMS STATE OF EMERGENCY.
SHOOTING
ON THE CAMPUS TWO HOURS EARLIER? Lock down not
instituted
Where was campus police? School officials and police making excuses for no lock down two hours earlier when first alerted about shooting on campus. Asian shooter no description/ no one anticipated shooting after two bomb threats earlier in the month and the first word to students was at 9:21 am to the previous shooting at 7:15 am.
Day after
LETS NOT GIVE THIS MANIAC ANY PRESS WE DON'T HAVE TO/ IT IS ALL ABOUT THE VICTIMS.
ALL CHARGES DROPPED ON THE LA CROSS PLAYERS
Guilty all 12 Jurors
Mrs. Levin Vr's Cingular
If you are a customer of Cingular or are considering becoming one you should first hear the story of how Mrs. Sri Levin of Torrance, California was treated by Cingular. You could find yourself being treated the same way if you are unfortunate enough to be given 5 cell phones. The story you are about to read was investigated by our Judicial Watch Team and found to be shocking.
Mrs. Levin of Torrance, California paid for four cell phones for 3 years without a late payment. The fourth year she was prompted for a 5th cell phone at which she paid every month on time. Mrs. Levin received a call from the manager of Cingular 1 1/2 years later and told Mrs. Levin that they she could not have 5 cell phones. When Mrs. Levin told the manager that she could not give up the phone right now and that is when Cingular cut off all the phones. It forced Mrs. Levin to have to go to another provider and get 5 more cell phones. On top of that the Levin's family had purchased 3 month before being cut off new phones for $500 for two Cingular cell phones. Now they are stuck with them as well as a $671.59 bill that was changed from a family plan to regular plan without Mrs. Levin permission.
This disturbs us because, we wonder. How many Mrs. Levin type cases are out there?
The Levin family would like to know who is getting the same treatment from Cingular. If you have a similar story she would like to hear from you. You can email her at: Inspectokluso@msn.com
Since that time we have been getting other complaints from Cingular user that would confirm the Levin story. Please contact Mrs. Levin at inspectorkluso@msn.com for a class action law suit against Cingular. If they can do it to them they sure can do it to you.
Mrs. Levin is compiling a list of people who would like to be involved in a class action suit against Cingular. If you are interested in joining, please contact her at the email above. We have to strip the madness, Companies get big and think they can get away with anything and say anything without any repercussion.
FACTS: Cingular did not treat Mrs. Levin professionally, Not even with human consideration. Mrs. Levin paid their cell phone bill to Cingular for 4 years or more. When they talked Mrs. Levin into the 5th phone line and she paid for a year and half and then the phone was taken away along with cutting the whole service down. She was forced to go to another provider and lost the money she had laid out for the other phones she bought 3 month prior. They did not communicate and give Mrs. Levin any notice and the same day cut her service off completely.
Kobe Bryant Vr's Kate Favor
Kobe Bryant Has one thing going for him and that is himself. How can someone call rape and then go around and brag about it. Tom Leykis hit it right on the head. He is the only one that has the balls to tell it like it is and the media cannot stand it. Tom started out with KFI and they could not handle his blunt and tell it like it is manner. Tom is far from a shock jock. I believe he has more woman listeners than men. Mr. Leykis is a fan of many and hated by his blunt and out spoken demeanor. For someone calling rape and then going around bragging to their friends about it has some serious problems. Kate's friends tell the media that she can seek her own fame and fortune. If that was the case why did she fail to make the 100 American Idol finalist to go to Hollywood. This girl is no dummy. She knows she is going to get a movie, a book deal and loose the case. the DA is looking to make a name for himself, and then leading people on that he does not know who Kobe is. Right there by making that statement shows one thing that he has no clue what is around him. He has no solid case. If he had such a solid case, Kobe would not be out on $25000 bond and it would not of take the DA two weeks to file. Who knows Kate could be doing the DA on the side. I sure would like to know the motive behind the two of them and we must not forget the sheriff that arrested Kobe. This all feels like a publicity by all three. The DA has to know about Kate past and pretends he doesn't. This case is going to be He said She said and He said looks more the truth. Lets take it step by step.
Kate leaves Kobe room because she was not physically hurt by Kobe but emotionally hurt. To get back at Kobe she trumped up the rape. She does not report the rape for a number of hours. Next she goes to her friend the sheriff to have Kobe arrested. Kobe is arrested and makes bond the same day. She plays the role till the end until she has had to much to drink and then brags about Kobe raping her. Someone that has been violated does not brag about it drunk or sober. We are going to find out she is a mental case and her friends are going to prove it. Kate past is her worst night mare. This DA better wake up and smell the coffee. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. She could have torn her clothes and had rough sex and called it rape when Kobe and her competed there sexual encounter. Kobe for someone alleged raping someone had no characteristic at all of raping someone. Kobe would know that his entire career would be out the window if he violated any woman. their is no court in the land that will convict him of rape and that is proven by many Physics. Someone put words in this girls mind to come up with a story so far fetched. This is not the Kobe that is loved and respected by the majority.
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Robinson-May
This item came to us and we owe it to our readers to report everything that is unjust.
We have received information that Robinson-May treats customer un-professionally and harasses customers.
Case in point. Customer is told to pay a closing bill amount and a week later receives a late charge. Customer put on the check that it was the final amount and if the check is cashed contract closed. Customer keeps on receiving phone call and bills for late fees, Customer tells us he refuses to pay late fee and still Robinson-May has harassed and un-professionally handle it.
If this is the way Robinson May handles customer we can see why people have complained to us about their service. With the economy the way it is you would think that a store of this magnitude would have more professional attitude and would treat their customers with more respect. Why Robinson-May would keep adding late fees to customer account all ready closed could mean a number of things, hiding deficits, don't want to confess in making a mistake, or failure on communications. To our readers we hope you look real careful when shopping at this store and especially applying for a credit card. This could easily happen to you. We think that Department stores like this have to be called on it and should own up to how to treat their customers and be professional about it. If any of our readers have problems with this department store or any other we want to hear from you. Email us.
Our policy is for you and not the corporation. More and More we find big corporation taking advantage of the consumer and the consumer has no where to go. We don't want to see another Enron in our life time.
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2002 Olympics
The latest, as you probably have heard, surrounds a French
judge and a Russian judges exchanging favors for votes. While
this is a great American political tradition, it seems to be
an old Olympic tradition as well. Heck, I remember asking for
a few favors from a high school b.f. who was a gymnast.
I am not sure if the stories are true, but they have that
familiar ring of truth. The French judge and the Russian
judge allegedly (now I really feel like a reporter when I
can use the word, "allegedly" in a sentence) agreed to rank
the French ice dance pairs at the top in exchange for
ranking the Russian figure skating pair at the top.
Ice dancing is a relatively new Olympic sport, but it managed
to move to the head of the class in controversy. The entire
judging fiasco (dubbed Skategate) is really being blown out
of proportion. I think any minute the judges are going to be
accused of being members of Al Qaida. GW Bush will then get
involved dispatch a special envoy to the region. I hope Janet
Reno (former Attorney General) would come to Salt Lake City.
If she remained conscious long enough, maybe she could
straighten out the mess.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting
on when patients would die.
In 1980 the yellow pages listed a funeral Home under "frozen
foods".
It would take half the people in the United States between
the ages of 18 and 45 to run the nation's telephone system
if it were not computerized.
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete.
A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the
Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of
these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in
rats.
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Following their passage in the House on September 5, the Senate on December
20 passed two bills that would provide work authorization for spouses of
international transferees. The bills, H.R. 2277 and H.R. 2278, await the
President's signature.
H.R. 2277 would grant work authorization to spouses of E visa holders. E
visas are granted to traders and investors from countries that have trade
agreements with the U.S. The law currently allows spouses of these
professionals to accompany them for the length of their assignment, but ban
them from working in the US. As a result, spouses are forced to put their own
careers on hold for the length of a visa holder's assignment. H.R. 2278 would
grant work authorization to spouses of L visa holders and also would reduce
the amount of time that an employee must be employed by a company before
being eligible for an L visa. This provision, commonly known as the
"pre-employment blanket requirement," currently calls for a minimum of one
year of employment with the company in any of the last three years before
being eligible for an L visa. Under this new legislation the pre-employment
blanket requirement would be reduced to six month, making is easier and
faster for companies to transfer valuable employees to their U.S. branches.
These measures help fill the need for specific skills in the U.S. economy.
Industries are facing problems transferring executives to the U.S. due to
employment ban for their spouses. Today most families are sustained on dual
incomes. Significantly cutting the annual income of these families by not
allowing one of the spouses to work makes it especially hard for companies to
find employees able and willing to undergo such a change.
CONSERVATIVES DEMAND JUSTICE FROM BUSH ADMINISTRATION
Nearly 120,000 Citizen Petitions Sent To President Bush and Attorney General
Ashcroft
Petitions Demand Action on Hillary Clinton, UN, and IRS Corruption
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that
investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today conveyed 119,218
citizen petitions asking President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft to
take specific actions against corruption by Bill and Hillary Clinton, the IRS
and the United Nations. Judicial Watch gathered the petitions from its
supporters across the United States.
59,535 petitions were sent to Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that
he hold Bill and Hillary Clinton accountable using the evidence available to him
from Democratic donor Peter Paul. Mr. Paul, who is represented by Judicial
Watch, donated over $2 million to Mrs. Clinton’s Senate campaign as part of an
effort to cement a deal for post-Oval Office employment for Bill Clinton with
his companies. Mr. Paul’s story has been largely confirmed by ABC News and is
backed up by evidence which includes copies of checks, financial records, and
candid video and photos. Rather than indict Bill and Hillary Clinton, Peter Paul
was indicted on alleged stock fraud by a U.S. attorney from Hillary Clinton’s
New York. The petitions ask the Attorney General to work out a deal with Peter
Paul so that everyone, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, is held accountable.
33,580 petitions were sent to President Bush requesting that he rehire Linda
She wick, the State Department official who single-handedly uncovered numerous
instances of waste, fraud, and abuse of authority at the United Nations and
State Department. She wick, a Judicial Watch client, was retaliated against
by the Clinton State Department for exposing to the Congress and the media the
U.N.’s waste of American tax dollars and was fired the day after the
presidential elections.
26,103 petitions were also sent to President Bush demanding that he fire IRS
Commissioner Charles Rosette, a Clinton holdover responsible for illegal audits
against conservatives organizations and other perceived adversaries of Bill and
Hillary Clinton. For example, under Rosette's watch, Judicial Watch client
Juanita Broderick, the woman who was raped by Bill Clinton, was audited.
Rosette has also been caught red-handed in illegal conflicts of interest.
Rossotti, as IRS commissioner, has overseen the awarding of IRS contracts to
AMES,
a company which he founded and in which he still has a major financial interest.
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The peoplesfreepress.com Documentary that stunned Washington D.C. has taken a new
twist but righteous turn. Attending the JUDICIAL WATCH (No one is above the
Law) conference in Miami Florida, our own Jackelyn Giroux and Gary Graver,
found that Larry Klayman, Tom Fitton, Mike Pendleton and Ernie Norris had
more answers (for no money) than every Senator and Congressman had with their
forty staffers, two press agents AND big salaries!
Giroux stated, "I suddenly feel like there is a God after all, and he has
sent us the biggest gift in the World...The JUDICIAL WATCH team to watch over
all America.
Larry Klayman answered every question, so forth with, and with the decency
and respect and dignity that every American yearns for and deserves!"
Graver added, "After having the doors in Washington D.C. slammed in our
faces, or the ludicrous responses' of Senators and Congressman stating,
'speak to my press agent', I was beginning to wonder if the real La Land
is not L..A.. but D.C."!
Giroux, currently in editing pledged, "JUDICIAL WATCH gave me just the right
edge to this Documentary. What Washington D.C. wavered, Judicial Watch
favored".
Donations to JUDICIAL WATCH (www.judicialwatch.org) should be immediately
made if we truly want to save our JUDICIAL SYSTEM, as no one (should be)
above the Law!"
Mrs. Levin Vr's Cingular
If you are a customer of Cingular or are considering becoming one you should first hear the story of how Mrs. Sri Levin of Torrance, California were treated by Cingular. You could find yourself being treated the same qay if you are unfortunate enough to be given 5 cell phones. The story you are about to read was investigated by our Judicial Watch Team and found to be shocking.
Mrs. Levin of Torrance, California paid for four cell phones for 3 years without a late payment. the fourth year she was prompted for a 5th cell phone at which she paid another 1 and half on time every month for the 5 cell phones. Mrs. Levin after 1 and half years later received a call from the manager of Cingular and told Mr. Levin that they could not have 5 cell phones 1 1/2 yrs later. when Mrs. Levin told the manager that she was not going to give up the phone just like that and that is when Cingular cut off all the phones. It forced Mrs. Levin to have to go to another provider and get 5 more cell phones. On top of that the Levin's family had purchased 3 month before being cut off new phones for $500 for two cingular cell phones. Now they are stuck with them as well as a $671.59 bill that was changed from a family plan to regular plan without Mrs. Levin permission.
This disturbs us because, we wonder. How many Mrs. Levin type cases are out there?
Mrs. Levin is very disturbed by this and wonders how many other people out there are getting the same treatment from Cingular? If you have a similar story she would like to hear from you. You can email her at: Inspectokluso@msn.com
Since that time we have been getting other complaints from Cingular user that would confirm the Levin story. Please contact Mrs. Levin at inspectorkluso@msn.com for a class action law suit against Cingular. If they can do it to them they sure can do it to you.
Mrs. Levin is compiling a list of people who would like to be involved in a class action suit against Cingular. If you are interested in joining, please contact her at the email above. we have to strip the madness, Companies get big and think they can get away with anything and say anything without any repercussion.
FACTS: Cingular did not treat the Mrs. Levin professionally, Not even with human consideration. Mrs. Levin paid
their cell phone bills to Cingular for 4 years. When they talked Mrs. Levin into the 5th phone line and she paid for a year and half and then the phone was taken away along with cutting the whole service down. she was forced to go to another provider and lost the money she had laid out for the other phones she bought 3 month prior. They did not communicate and give Mrs. Levin any notice and the same day cut her service off completely.
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CBS and Dan Rather will not recognize that the documents are not real. CBS has lost it credibility on reporting accurate news. Dan Rather should be suspended from CBS news for putting these memo's out without evidence that they are not forged. It is obvious that the memo's were done with micro soft fonts. It is going to take CBS news a set back on the credibility of their broadcasting. We feel the DNC is behind these false papers and we believe that they should be held accountable and James Carville , Max Cleland, Character named Burnett should be investigated.
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ALL SBC YELLOW PAGE ADVERTISERS FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MUST READ THIS!
If you are a paid advertiser with Pacific Bell (SBC Yellow Pages) or have been within the last 5 years, you were robbed of thousands of dollars and stand an excellent chance of recovering all of your money!
We were shocked after hearing this story, which we took from the man who uncovered this cheap way of delivering your hopes of getting more customers for your advertising dollars. We have also uncovered many SBC employees who are very dissatisfied with the company since the name change.
The story that you are about to read here was investigated by our JUDICIAL WATCH team:
David Herman of Dave’s Gold & Silver Exchange in Lawndale, California was served with a lawsuit approximately one year ago from a collection agency for SBC yellow pages. The following is an indication of how SBC handles problems. The law firm that SBC hired to take this case to court was a real class act. First of all Mr. Herman was verbally abused by an attorney in the offices of Seals & Tenenbaum when he replied by telephone to a letter that they sent him. Then came the day of the court trial and Mr. Tenenbaum humiliated Mr. Herman’s witnesses by calling them a circus. Then shockingly enough he jumped up and got almost nose to nose with Mr. Herman and said "You son of a bitch, take a swing at me" for no reason other than the fact that Mr. Herman would not accept last minute discovery from him. In the state of California discovery must be exchanged 30 days before the date of trial according to the law. This attorney is VERY UNPROFESSIONAL, much like the company that he works for. His name is Jay M. Tenenbaum, Esq. (Bar No. 134221). Mr. Herman and his witnesses are filing complaints against him with the bar.
This lawsuit was for their 2000/2001 directory. Mr. Herman discovered that SBC’s yellow page directories were not being delivered to apartment residents (per the contract that he signed). He refused to make any more payments since SBC decided to breach their own contract and that, the circulation that he was led to believe that he was paying for was much less than he had been told by SBC’s representative. After investigating the problem, which was costing him a lot of business. Mr. Herman discovered that rather than delivering a directory to each door in apartment buildings SBC was dumping them in piles on the premises in the hopes that the residents would find them and take one back to their apartment! This is not called delivering, it is called dropping them off and the people were NOT taking them, so the apartment manager’s were throwing them in the TRASH! We are now starting to hear of many homes that don’t get directories delivered to them either. If the advertisers call their SBC representative to inquire about this, they are told that 95% of all directories get delivered. That is their standard answer from San Diego up to Crescent City, California.
Mr. Herman had been an advertiser with Pacific Bell off and on for approximately 19 years. All was well and he did notice an increase in the amount of customers that he got every day as soon as their books were delivered, so he was always satisfied.
One year they (Pacific Bell) made a major error with Mr. Herman’s ad and would not pay for their mistake. He got angry and quit advertising with them for quite a few years. Then one day a Pacific Bell Rep. showed up at his store and talked him in to going back in to their book for the year of 2000/2001. He signed up for approximately $6,000.00 worth of advertising. His business was down a lot at that time, so he figured "I’ll give it a try to see if I can gain a few extra customers per day."
SURPRISE, SURPRISE! The books finally hit the streets and after being in circulation for 2 ½ months the year of 2000 ended and there was no increase in his business at all! Then came the final blow! He went through the whole year of 2001 and on December 31, 2001 his business records showed absolutely no increase even with the books being in circulation for the ENTIRE YEAR! Oh, I forgot to mention that he was advertising in two of their directories (South Bay and Airport Area.)
Right about now your reading this and thinking how could this be possible that there was absolutely no increase in his business? You’re about to learn the reason that it happened. There are many businesses that rely heavily on a big portion of their business coming from people that reside in apartments and Mr. Herman was one of them. He did some checking around and found out that approximately 25% of the total population reside in apartments and the number is growing at an alarming rate! Some genius at SBC came up with a very clever way to save the company millions of dollars. Their brainstorm idea was this: instead of delivering a book to every single residential telephone customer, why couldn’t we just drop off the books in a big pile somewhere on the premises of multiple dwellings and apartment complexes! This could save us millions of dollars.
It appears that without informing any of the paying advertisers or without changing the wording on the back of their contract that you sign. They have been getting away with carrying out this unscrupulous act for approximately 5 years or more. Read the back of your contract, on paragraph 5 the first 15 words read:
"Publisher delivers its directories within the related directory areas to business and residential telephone customers."Now, does every paying advertiser want to know just exactly what is happening with all of those books that SBC is leaving in piles at apartment buildings? To begin with, they don’t even leave the books lying out loose for a person to take one if they could find out where they left them. Most of the time they leave them near the mail boxes for you to stumble upon, but even if you wanted to carry one back to your apartment, unless you had a pocket knife or some other sharp tool on you, you could not get one. They leave the books in bundles of 8 each completely encased in a very tough clear piece of plastic covering! They don’t even have the decency to cut the plastic away for the customers.
Mr. Herman has lived in apartments for most of his life and can tell you that in the past years that he advertised with Pacific Bell, he knows for a fact that they used to deliver their books in the proper manner. Once a year their book was always placed on the welcome mat of his apartment unit. When they used to deliver their books in the proper manner to all of their residential telephone customers, his business was doing fine and he had no complaints.
FACTS: SBC is not the only show in town. Verizon yellow pages, United yellow pages and others are all out there at approximately the same time delivering their books in the proper manner, leaving a book in front of the door of each and every apartment. If a person already has 1, 2 or even 3 books in their home, DO THEY NEED ANOTHER? Of course not, so the books that SBC dumps off rarely get taken by the people that would have taken them had the book been delivered properly in front of their door like they used to do in the past and state in their contract that they still do!
Mr. Herman was ready and waiting for them this year! As soon as he found out they were hitting the streets this year in October, 2003 he took his video camera and taped SBC in the act of dumping off the books at apartment buildings at different locations in bundles of 8 books per bundle. He then returned days later with his camera to show that almost no one was bothering to take an SBC directory. Where do all of those hundreds of thousands or possibly millions of books end up at? IN THE
TRASH! Mr. Herman has in his possession sworn affidavits from different apartment manager’s stating that no one was taking the SBC directories, so they put them all in the trash container! Our Judicial Watch Team has viewed this videotape and we stand behind it.One of the worst horror stories that he came upon during his investigation (the man that informed him of it is on the tape), his wife and himself manage a large apartment complex of 132 units. In the year of 2000 when SBC showed up in October they dumped all of their directories in his little tiny office where NONE of the tenants could even see them or have any way of knowing that they were there! The owner stopped by to see him one day and asked "what’s this mess of books doing in here." The owner told him to trash them all and he did! This year they tried to dump the books in his office again and he said "no." They ended up leaving them near the mailboxes. Several days or more later we had heavy rain. All of the books got soaking wet and the manager threw them all away! This is not only costing SBC advertisers money, but it’s causing unpaid for and unwanted work for apartment building managers.
Around the same time period Verizon yellow pages showed up at the same apartment building and all on their own without asking or telling anyone, just went and delivered a directory in front of each and every apartment unit! THAT IS ALSO ON THE TAPE!
Are you starting to get a little angry right about now? Well you sure should be, because all those thousands of dollars you pay every year for advertising to SBC is not reaching out to all the people that they led you to believe that you were getting for the exorbitant prices they are charging you!
Just how bad is this hurting your business? CHECK THIS OUT! Starting up for the year of 2003, Dave’s Gold & Silver Exchange signed a contract with a very tiny competitor of SBC’s called United Yellow Pages. A year earlier we did our own checking around and came to find out that they do deliver their directories to each and every apartment unit and they never just dump them off in a pile anywhere like SBC does! THE RESULTS! As soon as United yellow pages were delivered the amount of business at Dave’s Gold & Silver Exchange increased by 40 to 43% from day one and held that increase throughout the entire year of 2003! Mind you, that is the only book that the store signed up with in 2003! They were not in SBC, Verizon, The Yellow Book or any other yellow pages other than United! Give that some very careful thought and that should tell you how important it is to reach out to people that reside in apartments! When 25% or more of the population reside in apartments we would say that there aren’t too many advertisers that would not want to reach out to them, especially since they’re paying for it anyway.
Big companies like SBC charge outrageous prices for their advertising as compared to their smaller competitors, but everyone is under the impression that they have to go in to their books because, they have the largest circulation.
If the books that you are paying thousands of dollars to advertise in every year are not even being seen by a huge portion of the population and are ending up in the TRASH, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that you have been and still are right this very minute being ROBBED!One has to ask themselves, I wonder if this might be part of the reason that my business has been down for the last 5 or 6 years now as compared to the previous years that you were doing so well! If all or the biggest part of your advertising is solely with or very heavily relied upon SBC, Mr. Herman certainly hopes that by him taking the time and trouble to inform you, that someone or maybe even everyone might want to get involved in a class action lawsuit against SBC for BREACH OF CONTRACT!
We have no clue as to just exactly how many millions of dollars SBC has saved themselves over the last 5 or more years in delivery expenses after they made the decision to breach their own contract without ever informing any of their paying advertisers, but we’re sure it’s an enormous amount!
Mr. Herman is very disturbed about this and has no way of knowing if other people, after reading this are as angry as he is, so he would really appreciate it if everyone could drop him an email to let him know your feelings about this matter. He would also like to see how many people are interested in joining in on a class action lawsuit against SBC to recover the money you were all robbed of.
Mr. Herman already has a long list of very angry advertisers that want to sue SBC over this matter and if you want to be added to the list, let him know. It’s fine if you prefer not to sue, but at least now you know that this is happening and can choose your own course of action!
Call!
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Mr. David Herman at:
davesgold2000@yahoo.com or by phone at: 310-644-3849
STATE OF CALIFORNIA MERCURY INSURANCE CUSTOMERS MUST READ THIS!
Update to the Above: July 29, 2004
July 29th the Levin family is going to court against party that hit them and received a letter informing the Levin family you cannot go after the President and CEO of Mercury Insurance in Brea, Ca. The Levin's were told to sue the party that hit them. Levin family informed us that they had to sue the party that hit them because Mercury could not contact them. Not only is Mercury hiding behind the Corporate seal but also has the Party that hit the Levin family. By the way both are insured by Mercury. This case did not go to court and is still pending because the Levin family cannot locate the party that hit them. Mercury has not been any help.
The Levin family received a call from the Manager of Mercury Insurance to help them out. The Levin family fax an expense statement that the Manager of Mercury Insurance requested. The next day Mr. Levin saw on his credit card a charge for the rental car that Mercury Insurance said they paid for like everything else. After being lied to the Levin family decided to take legal action. It seems that Mercury Insurance has no credibility and cannot be trusted according to the Levin family.
We were told by the Levin family that they sent the check back and did not sign any of the documents.
Towards the end of February the Levin family rented a car. They were told in the beginning of April that Mercury Insurance would only accept responsibility for the loan car until March 12th, 2004. When the Levin family brought this up to the company's Total Loss Department and threatened to take it to us and other newspapers, they told Mr. Levin to go ahead.
Now the Levin's reports to us that they have finally picked up the car that was deemed totaled on April 3rd and to this day have not received any payment from Mercury Insurance. Mercury Insurance also wants them to return the rental car, which will cause the Levin's great hardship.
What is the Levin family to do? How are they supposed to get food, and go to their scheduled medical appointments? Mr. Levin told us that he told the insurance carrier that they would have to take a taxi. The response was Mercury Insurance would not pay that either.
This disturbs us because, we wonder: How many Levin family type cases are out there? The Levin's had their insurance with Mercury for 4 years and everything was fine until they had an unfortunate accident that wasn't even their fault. The driver of the other vehicle admitted guilt on the spot. When people pay for insurance they do so for one reason only, so they can feel that they will be taken care of if the worst happens. They want to be in good hands. If the Levin's were treated in this manner, we dread to think of people who have Mercury Insurance and get in to accidents that extremely handicaps them.
Now, after three months, Mercury wants the Levin family to tell them how the accident happened, after they have had the police report for two and half months. The Levin family also informs us that they had to pay for the police report, and subsequently have been given the runaround by 5 or 6 agents of Mercury Insurance.
The Levin family told us they went to other insurance companies like State Farm and that they were surprised as we were.
FACTS: Mercury Insurance did not treat the Levin family professionally, as the victims. Not even with human kindness and consideration. The Levin's paid their insurance bills to Mercury faithfully for 4 years and where were they when they needed them? Well, I guess right now we all know the answer to that. Not by their side where they should have been. They were not concerned about their injuries. They did not take care of their transportation problem in a speedy manner. They tried to lowball them, and forced them to keep the automobile that was totaled. They did not communicate and give the Levin family the professional advice that one would think they should and would. We learned that the Levin family only had Liability coverage. They feel they were treated this way because they did not have Collision coverage.
Mr. Levin told us that they went to ASI after hearing about them from KFI. ASI told them that Mercury was the best and cheapest. We question the source of ASI and would like to know why KFI promotes them so highly.
The Levin family is very disturbed and traumatized by this and wonders how many other people out there are getting the same treatment from Mercury Insurance? If you have a similar story they would like to hear from you. You can email them at:
Mr. Levin is compiling a list of people who would like to be involved in a class action suit against Mercury Insurance Co. If you are interested in joining, please contact him at the email above. We have to stop this madness. Companies get big and think that they can get away with anything.
We will bring you up to date since this is going on situation. We are just reporting what the Levin's have showed and told us about Mercury Insurance. You decide.