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La. state senator pleads guilty in laundering case

AP — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:52:43 +0000

A Louisiana state senator has submitted his resignation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Bulgaria fares worst in Europe

Elliott — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:27:21 +0000

Bulgaria is the least competitive country in the European Union, with the most inept top-level managers and the highest corruption levels, surpassing even Romania and Albania (the latter not even a member of the European Union), according to...

Advancement elections: Ethical and political imperative

Miguel Angel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:44:23 +0000

Although now, so we see in this government and what we saw in the case of Fujimori, it would seem that there is no relationship between the ethical and political mandate and is an imperative of decent people, those who believe that it is...

Recording telephonic conversations is against absolute freedom of opinion and privacy

Miguel Angel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:45:19 +0000

By the gravity of the contents of the telephone recordings made public, it has overlooked the illegal method for having agreed to these audios through the interception of private conversations. The silence to these methods, is endorsing a procedure...

RI jury convicts 1 ex-hospital exec of corruption

AP — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:41:33 +0000

A former hospital executive was convicted Monday of buying the influence of a Rhode Island lawmaker, while his former colleague was found not guilty of similar...

Former Tenn. lawmaker gets 14 years for fraud

AP — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:02:04 +0000

A former Tennessee state senator has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting more than $800,000 from companies and pushing for laws that favored them.

Sex, lies, and the buying of Mexican Teaching Contracts... Ignorance in the making.

Oscar — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:00:52 +0000

It is perhaps the hardest reform of all. Pension systems or energy shortages can be fixed by cutting entitlements or spending more. But no amount of money can in itself make a million qualified teachers materialise in less than a generation. That...

Global Report - 25-September -2008

Ground Report — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:49:44 +0000

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FBI raids court chambers in Ohio corruption probe

AP — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:25:19 +0000

The FBI raided the chambers of two judges in a corruption probe that began with earlier seizures at the offices and homes of two elected officials in Ohio’s most populous county, officials said...

Corruption increases marginally in India over the last two years

Arpita Mukherjee — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:37:47 +0000

This is not something new for the Indians who have become used to their daily doses of corruption pills, some managing to become aloof or indifferent to it, some are crying themselves hoarse over the issue while there are others who have...