Cloud of corruption around Democrats' union patron

By Charles Lewis

WASHINGTON, August 9, 2000 — As the Democratic National Convention gets under way in Los Angeles, the American Federation of State, County a

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"… rules for union elections by soliciting an AFSCME supplier. Paul Booth, an aide to McEntee who’s married to Heather Booth, a former DNC official and a f …"

"… ME. Besides the Teamsters scandal that’s swirling around McEntee and his aide Paul Booth, in recent years no fewer than six AFSCME international vice-pr …"

"… nding several months on unpaid leave pending investigation. Two of his top aides resigned following their admissions that they had helped to rig the vote …"

Big banks sued over credit card protection programs

In 2008, Anna Trachtenberg, a 53-year-old unemployed Pennsylvania homemaker, enrolled in a payment protection service for her credit card fr

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"… byists such as former House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt, his former aide, Steve Elmendorf, and former Democratic Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana to i …"

Starr Struck: Part one

By Florence George Graves

BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — The Kenneth Starr assailed by the Clinton administration as an agent of a vast right-wing conspiracy is the same Ken

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"… ly when he subpoenaed Sidney Blumenthal, the journalist-turned-White House aide suspected by Starr of leaking negative stories about the independent couns …"

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Romanian weapons modified in the U.S. become scourge of Mexican drug war

By Rick Schmitt and Rick Young

Center story focused on Romanian weapon now targeted by Feinstein legislation

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"… ong other things, target 100 specifically named guns. One of them, said an aide to the senator, is the WASR-10.Read our original story, reported in collab …"

"… urate record of dealers’ firearms sales is required by federal law as an aide in the tracing of crime guns, untrue statements on those records — known …"

FBI tracked alleged Russian mob ties of Giuliani campaign supporter

By Knut Royce

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — The Center for Public Integrity is investigating how billions of dollars of allegedly corrupted money from t

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"… for Giuliani’s Senate campaign exploratory committee, refused through an aide to comment on Semyon Kislin’s support of Giuliani. Teitelbaum refused to …"

"… Commission records. One month after the last contribution, federal agents raided the company in a money-laundering probe of Magnex and its silent owner, n …"

Belying his rhetoric, McCain worked for megamerger sought by campaign patron AT&T

By Nathaniel Heller and Annys Shin

WASHINGTON, December 7, 1999 — Republican Senator John McCain, outspoken advocate of campaign-finance reform, has built his presidential can

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"… campaign. Additionally, Timmons’ wife, Paula Pleas-Timmons, a former aide on the Senate Commerce Committee, is an in-house lobbyist for AT&T Wir …"

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The Murtha Method

By The Center for Public Integrity

For months, a cloud has swirled around Congressman John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee,

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"… rs had with the PMA Group, a lobbying firm filled with former subcommittee aides.Murtha and fellow panel members Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.) and Jim Moran (D …"

"… taffers representing one defense contractor each. Former Young legislative aide Bryan Blom is a government relations manager for Van Scoyoc Associates Inc …"

"… firm, Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates LLC, was a senior appropriations aide to Young. Young received $2,400 from the company PAC and $29,100 from its …"

"… PAC, $2,500 from company executives, and $4,500 from PMA’s PAC.The FBI raided PMA’s Arlington, Va., headquarters in November 2008. Concurrent Technol …"

Bush's carbon dioxide flip-flop came through staffer who had lobbied for car-exhaust

By Nathaniel Heller and M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2001 — President Bush's decision to abandon his campaign pledge to limit carbon dioxide emissions was routed through a

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"… ign pledge to limit carbon dioxide emissions was routed through a key Bush aide who had lobbied for one of the world's largest manufacturers of automobile …"

"… f the world's largest manufacturers of automobile exhaust systems.The Bush aide, Nicholas Calio, served as a paid lobbyist and worked extensively from 199 …"

McCain tax bill would save corporate contributors millions

WASHINGTON, D.C. February 11, 2000 — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has talked at length about tax cuts that would benefit lowe

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"… legislative director, John W. Timmons, and Timmons’ wife, Paula a former aide on the Commerce Committee, which McCain chairs – are lobbyists for AT&am …"

Stealth PACs revealed

By The Center for Public Integrity

February 9, 2000 — The 2000 election cycle promised to be a high-stakes and free-spending election by anyone's measure. The balance of power

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"… d closest political ally, and GOP strategist Lyn Nofziger, a former Reagan aide. Dick Dresner, a big-time Republican consultant, also works with the group …"

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