Posts Tagged ‘corruption chronicles’
“Spit Assault” Gets N.Y. Bus Drivers Months Of Paid Leave
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a bizarre example of government waste, a major U.S. city with a $400 million transit budget shortfall allows public bus drivers to take months of paid leave every time a rider spits on them. Thanks to a contract negotiated by the New York City bus drivers’ [...]
Former Detroit Mayor Back In Jail
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The famously corrupt politician who ran Detroit for six years before getting criminally convicted will go back to jail for violating the terms of his probation by hiding assets to avoid paying the city $1 million for his felonious antics. The storied career of [...]
JW Sues DOJ for Documents Regarding Decision to Dismiss of Lawsuit against New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Washington, DC -- May 25, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Justice Department to obtain documents [...]
Illegal Immigrant Rapist Had Been Deported 9 Times
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In what appears to be a growing national trend, an illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal record and multiple deportation orders remained in the U.S. long enough to commit yet another atrocious crime. The tragic case in Washington State marks the latest of [...]
Homeland Sec. Officers Go On Spending Spree
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Officers at the Homeland Security agency that secures federal buildings went on huge personal spending sprees with their government credit cards yet authorities refuse to punish them or force them to refund taxpayers. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) employees [...]
Judge Bans Enforcement Of N.Y. Day Laborer Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A federal judge is preventing a New York town from enforcing its “unconstitutional” law prohibiting illegal immigrant day laborers from seeking work on public property and people from hiring them. Oyster Bay, a Long Island town of about 300,000 residents, [...]
Police Knew Time Square Bomb Accomplice Was Illegal Alien
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an alarming example of how sanctuary cities can protect terrorists, a Pakistani man arrested for the Time Square bombing admitted on a city license application that he entered the U.S. illegally and authorities took no action. That’s because he applied for the [...]
Census Hires Sex Offender For Home Visits
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a shameful mishap for the U.S. government, the Census Bureau knowingly hired a registered sex offender with a long criminal history to make home visits even though such convicts are precluded from working for the agency. The embarrassing gaffe came to light when a [...]
Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit against Federal Reserve to Obtain AIG and Lehman Brothers Bailout Documents
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- March 20, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on May [...]
State Law Aims To Protect Felons
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles To facilitate life after prison and avoid discrimination, Massachusetts is on the verge of enacting legislation that will protect convicted criminals by concealing their records from potential employers and landlords. A handful of states have measures that shield [...]
Voting Rights For Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A major U.S. county that has long offered illegal immigrants official sanctuary wants to join a handful of others around the nation in granting them voting privileges reserved for American citizens. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors wants immigrants who don’t [...]
Obama Offered Federal Judgeship To Calm Political Drama
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles On the heels of President Obama’s effort to bribe a Pennsylvania congressman with a government job, a Washington insider reveals that the commander-in-chief unscrupulously tried using a federal judgeship to resolve an internal White House political problem. To avoid a [...]
Obama’s Illegal Immigrant Aunt Gets Asylum
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles After two rare secret court hearings, President Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt has been granted political asylum by the same judge who deported her last spring after noting that she had previously ignored multiple removal orders. The judge’s abrupt reversal will [...]
New Jersey Cities Give Illegal Immigrants IDs
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles While states and local governments nationwide enact imperative measures to curb illegal immigration, two New Jersey cities are accommodating illegal aliens by offering them special identification cards to facilitate life in the U.S. The Garden State municipalities [...]
More Fraud In Stimulus-Funded Weatherization Program
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Weeks after rampant fraud was exposed in a welfare program to make low-income houses energy efficient in Wisconsin, a similar example of widespread corruption has surfaced in Texas. Both states’ “weatherization” projects were funded with tax dollars allocated [...]
Pelosi Launches Amnesty Campaign
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A week after ordering Catholic Church leaders to push immigration reform from the pulpit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to go full throttle with legislation that will extend amnesty to the estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the United States. Congress will [...]
College Blocks Illegal Student’s Deportation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a brazen effort to help an illegal immigrant, a public university in Georgia is spending taxpayer resources to block the deportation of a student so that she can complete her degree next year. The Mexican illegal alien (Jessica Colotl) graduated from a Georgia public high [...]
State Dept. Hinders Visa Security Program
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, the State Department is reportedly impeding a crucial program designed to prevent terrorists from obtaining visas to enter the United States. Legislation enacted after the 2001 terrorist attacks established the Visa Security Program [...]
Close Obama Friend, Advisor Under Federal Probe
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest scandal to rock the Obama Administration, a close friend, advisor and donor of the president’s is under federal investigation for misusing public funds on faith-based minority outreach programs while he ran Illinois’ health department. Under the direction of Dr. [...]
Bored Senator Views Porn During Floor Debate
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A Florida state lawmaker who is running for a seat in the United States Congress this year was caught viewing pornographic photos on his state-issued computer during a legislative session. A local news organization captured Mike Bennett, a Republican state senator, looking at a [...]
State Promotes Alcohol Consumption
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a flagrant waste of tax resources, the state agency that regulates the alcohol industry in Pennsylvania is spending tens of thousands of dollars on an advertising campaign to promote alcohol consumption. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has purchased radio and print ads [...]
N.Y. Creates Pardon Panel For Deportable Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles To shield criminally convicted immigrants from deportation, the governor of New York has created a special pardon panel to forgive individuals of state crimes that under federal law require expulsion from the U.S. Governor David Paterson claims that he created the first-of-its kind [...]
Convicted Congressman Runs For Old Seat After Prison
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A once-powerful Democrat congressman from Ohio who recently completed a seven-year prison sentence for corruption plans to make a political comeback as an independent in the district he represented for nearly two decades before going to jail. James Traficant, convicted of nearly a [...]
Judge Wins Muslim Religious Freedom Suit
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A Michigan state judge sued for trampling a Muslim woman’s religious freedom by ordering her to remove her head cover in his courtroom has been exonerated by a federal court. In an outrageous case of political correctness run amok, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge William Callahan [...]
Global Warming Causes Mental Illness, Cancer
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Global warming could lead to a worldwide increase in mental illness and cancer, according to a new U.S. government report calling for more public funding to further study one of the “most visible environmental concerns of the 21st century.” Government scientists from several [...]
Obama Justice Department Tells Court to Shield White House Visitor Logs from Full Disclosure and FOIA Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Court Precedent Contradicts Obama Administration Position Justice Department Lawyers Claim Previous Court Cases “Incorrectly Decided” Contact Information: 202-646-5172 ext. 305 Washington, DC Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government [...]
Mexico Migrant Abuse A Human Rights Crisis
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles While Mexico slams Arizona’s new immigration control law as hateful and discriminatory against Mexicans, illegal aliens are so rampantly abused there that an internationally recognized group has determined a Mexican human rights crisis. The timing of a new Amnesty International report [...]
Elected Official Pays $25k To Be In “Who’s Who In Black Los Angeles”
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A prominent elected official already chastised for trying to spend more than half a million taxpayer dollars to renovate his office is in trouble again for spending $25,000 to secure a spot in a friend’s publication about notable black leaders. Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark [...]
Obama Keeps Ft. Hood Docs From Congress
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Defying its own commitment to transparency, the Obama Administration refuses to share with Congress Ft. Hood investigative documents that may reveal whether the government could have prevented the massacre at the Texas Army base. The president continues to blow off congressional [...]
Public Schools Get Communist Curriculum
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A communist government notorious for human rights violations will implement curriculum in U.S. public schools despite concerns from educators who assure it will lead to the indoctrination of innocent children in the classroom. Public school districts in Washington State and [...]
