Posts Tagged ‘Judicial Watch’
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 [...]
Facts Contradict That Border Is More Secure Than Ever
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the same week that the nation’s Homeland Security secretary assured Congress the southern border is more secure than ever, an Arizona sheriff deputy got shot by Mexican drug smugglers and an illegal immigrant drop house got busted in separate areas. Is it possible that Janet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
S.F. City Atty. To Fight “Draconian” Arizona Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A neighboring state’s city attorney, well known for challenging the federal abortion ban, has graciously offered to spend his municipality’s public resources to battle Arizona’s new immigration law even though it doesn’t affect his constituents. San Francisco may be nearly 1,000 [...]
Public University Prof. Runs Sex Tourism Website
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the name of preserving the right to free speech, officials at a major public university in southern California have long permitted a tenured professor to operate a Thai sex tourism web site. The economics professor (Kenneth Ng) at California State University, Northridge, a [...]
SEC Absorbed With Porn During Economic Crisis
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As the Obama Administration pushes for more government regulation, a new report reveals that the agency charged with policing the nation’s financial industry was preoccupied with pornography while the economy crumbled. The country’s financial system collapsed while employees and [...]
Town Threatened Over “Anti-Immigrant” English Only Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest move to protect illegal immigrants who speak only Spanish, a rural New York town will be sued by a taxpayer-subsidized civil rights group if it doesn’t rescind a new law requiring that all official government business be conducted in English. The “misguided ordinance” is [...]
The Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering — Wendy McElroy
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Wendy McElroy In his book Seeing Like a State, James Scott commented on the role played by census data in the rise of the modern State: “If we imagine a state that has no reliable means of enumerating and locating its population, gauging its wealth, and mapping its land, resources, and [...]
Homeland Security Attorney Guilty In Bribery Scandal
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A senior attorney at the Homeland Security agency that enforces immigration laws and protects the U.S. against terrorist attacks has been convicted of three dozen corruption-related charges for posing as an immigration judge and accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from illegal [...]
Fla. GOP Under Criminal Probe
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Florida’s Republican Party is being criminally investigated by the feds for allowing elected officials and their staff to illegally go on wild personal spending sprees with tax-exempt political funds. Several federal agencies—including the Justice Department and Internal Revenue [...]
Obama’s Terrorist Pal Sues University For Canceling Gig
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A renowned terrorist and onetime fugitive who admitted bombing government buildings in the 1970s is suing a public university for canceling his speaking engagements amid security concerns, a move he claims is unconstitutional. William Ayers, President Obama’s close friend and longtime [...]
Contest Promotes Govt. Regulations
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Months after the Obama Administration ordered citizens to report “fishy” speech opposing the president’s healthcare policies, it’s encouraging Americans to create video ads explaining the importance of federal regulations. The scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]
Congresswoman Gives Supreme Court Minority Quota Mandate
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a disturbing trend among federal lawmakers, a crazed minority quota mandate has been issued for the second time in a few weeks during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on an unrelated subject. The latest inappropriate decree by a legislator to hire more minorities in government [...]
JW Files Lawsuit against FBI for Documents
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles FOIA Request Involves Abscam Sting Operation and FBI Probe of PMA Group Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- April 19, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a [...]
New U.S. Ambassador Helped Pelosi Make Millions
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a flagrant example of pay-to-play politics, the president of a company that helped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her banker husband make millions of dollars has been awarded a prestigious foreign ambassadorship. Foreign ambassadors are appointed by the president and it’s quite common [...]
D.C. Mayor Gives Pal Lucrative Contract
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A mayor already in trouble for taking controversial overseas trips financed by Arab and Communist governments and unscrupulously using tax dollars to promote a campaign donor’s business is in hot water for giving his fraternity brother a lucrative city contract. It simply marks the latest [...]
Hillary More Popular Than Obama
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama is doing such a despicable job running the country that most Americans wish a notoriously polarizing former senator lived at the White House instead of the embattled commander-in-chief. A few months after a national poll revealed that most of the country opposes a second term [...]
Arizona Makes Illegal Immigration State Offense
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the absence of federal enforcement a Mexican border state blasted by an illegal immigration pandemic has passed legislation that bans “sanctuary city” policies and makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. The law marks an unprecedented effort by a state to [...]
English License Test Discriminates Against Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A Georgia bill that would require driver’s license exams to be given only in English is xenophobic and discriminates against illegal immigrants, according to the state’s Latino lawmakers who are working to defeat the measure. The state senate overwhelmingly passed the Republican-sponsored [...]
Fraud-Infested Weatherization Program Gets Billions
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest of many scandals involving President Obama’s monstrous stimulus, a fraud-infested welfare program to make low-income houses energy efficient is cheating taxpayers out of billions with a recent example documented in Wisconsin. At least $5 billion in stimulus funds have been [...]
Judge: 9/11 Operative Mistreated By U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The Clinton-appointed judge who recently ordered the release of a 9/11 mastermind acknowledges that he may very well resume terrorist activities after being freed from Guantanamo Bay prison. Never the less, the Al Qaeda operative was mistreated and coerced at the military prison and therefore [...]
FBI Lets Kennedys Keep Ted’s Embarrassing Records Private
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a deplorable example of special treatment for the politically connected, the FBI is letting Ted Kennedy’s family determine if certain embarrassing records from the late senator’s extensive bureau file should be withheld from the public. Responding to a newspaper’s public records request, [...]
Cost Of Census Paraphernalia A Trade Secret
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Though it’s been widely reported that the Obama Administration is spending enormous sums to promote the U.S. Census, an additional chunk of money has gone to paraphernalia sporting the official logo and the government doesn’t want Americans to know how much. The merchandise—coffee mugs, [...]
