During his eight years as Atlanta Mayor, Democrat Bill Campbell managed City Hall as a criminal enterprise and a seven-year federal corruption probe has already led to the convictions of 10 city officials tied to his administration. Now it’s Campbell’s turn to answer to a seven-count indictment that accuses him of racketeering, accepting bribes and

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What is going on with these judges and the unconscionable sentencing of child molesters? It was only a few weeks ago that a Vermont judge drew national outrage for giving an admitted child rapist a 60-day sentence. This week, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge allowed a high school teacher to avoid prison in exchange for

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From Barrett’s press release regarding the release of his final report: This has been a long and difficult investigation. It is my hope that people will read the entire Report and draw their own conclusions. An accurate title for the Report could be, “WHAT WE WERE PREVENTED FROM INVESTIGATING.” After a thorough reading of the

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Independent Counsel David Barrett’s highly anticipated report related to his investigation of former Clinton cabinet member Henry Cisneros was finally released today. As is so often the case, what was included in the report is not nearly as interesting, or damning, as the content removed from it. Click here to view the final report. Robert

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This week Hillary Clinton called the Bush Administration one of the worst in U.S. history and she accused Republican leaders of running the House like a “plantation.” Wonder what the New York senator will have to say about a detailed report that reveals a tax-fraud cover up in her husband’s administration? Newly released portions of

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Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy put on quite a show when he ripped into Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for his one-time ties to a group opposed to admitting more women and minorities to Princeton. It turns out that the veteran Democrat senator himself belongs to a social club, for Harvard students and alumni, notorious for

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An arsenal of shotguns and revolvers are missing from Los Angeles County’s second-largest police department and, not surprisingly, officials have no clue what happened. Depending on the media report, Long Beach (California) Police Department officials are either irresponsible liars or poor record-keepers. Bottom line is that more than a fourth of its shotguns and an

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Nancy Pelosi’s infamous letter demanding an investigation into a “Republican culture of corruption” in congress fails to mention the San Francisco congresswoman’s own troubles and that of Louisiana Democrat Congressman William Jefferson, who took bribes for promoting business opportunities in Africa. In a well-publicized and lengthy letter to Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Pelosi, the

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Prosecutors are finally winding down their case. The entire week was spent covering cases of co-defendant Larry Warner paying George Ryan chunks of money. (For example, at one point, Warner paid $3,067 to a band who performed during the marriage of Ryan’s daughter.) Prosecutors also provided vignettes of different witnesses who tied together testimony of

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Washed-out singer turned leftwing activist Harry Belafonte made news last week for calling President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” during a rally led by Venezuela’s socialist leader, Hugo Chavez. Today Belafonte, the self-professed leader of the American socialist revolution, will join forces with his longtime friend, Hillary Clinton, at a luncheon

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