A Senate panel is finally investigating why the U.S. Government allows private companies with lucrative federal contracts to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes each year. A study published by the Government Accountability Office reveals that thousands of contractors owe more than $6 billion in taxes yet continue to do business with the government.

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Hillary Clinton’s Culture of Corruption: The Scandal Queen. Sounds appropriate given the subject’s well-documented public career. It’s actually the title of a seven-part series, launched this week by New Media Journal, detailing the New York senator’s scandal-plagued career with colorful anecdotes and fascinating figures. The eight-page introduction covers Clinton’s early years as a partner in

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After a seven-week trial, former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell’s race-based defense didn’t get him completely off the hook since a federal grand jury found him guilty of tax evasion, though it acquitted of the more serious racketeering and fraud charges. Corruption was so widespread during Campbell’s two terms as mayor (1994 to 2002) that 10

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Security was the big bipartisan outrage surrounding the idea of an Arab company (Dubai Ports World) controlling American ports so it’s ironic that there has been no mention of a costly three-year study revealing that security is already so weak that terrorists could easily smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the United States. Conducted by

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Two high-ranking U.S. Border Patrol supervisors who helped create a successful anti-smuggling program, have been arrested for smuggling migrants for a Mexican trafficking organization in exchange for bribes. Federal authorities say the agents, Mario Alvarez and Samuel McClaren, raked in more than $300,000 in cash to release apprehended immigrants. They have been indicted on eight

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The Connecticut Governor’s office can’t seem to steer clear of political scandal. Less than two years after one governor resigned to serve a sentence in federal prison, the woman who replaced him is in hot water for violating election laws. Sixteen top administrators in Governor Jodi Rell‘s administration were fined $500 each this week by

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While Yale University has come under fire for admitting the Taliban’s foreign secretary as a student, little has been mentioned about the government agency – the State Department – that granted the renowned terrorist the visa to attend the Connecticut campus. Although Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi was a top ambassador for the oppressive and brutal Afghan

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A nonprofit group dedicated to protecting all native wild animals and plants has published a detailed report documenting how illegal immigrants crossing through the 350-mile Arizona-Mexico border have destroyed hundreds of acres of national forests and their habitat. Titled On The Line: The Impacts of Immigration Policy on Wildlife and Habitat in the Arizona Borderlands,

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When a flood devastated a rural coalmining town in southwest Virginia, public officials accepted bribes from the wealthy contractors that swarmed the area to secure multi-million dollar cleanup deals. Spanning 504 miles and with a population of only 26,000, Buchanan County is not the kind of place that big time contractors normally strive to sign

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The Department of Homeland Security claims to have a high-level strategic plan that will lead the unified national effort to secure America and deter terrorist attacks, but ironically it can’t seem to secure its own Washington headquarters. The private guards in charge of protecting the agency’s complex, located in a residential area only miles from

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