The crucial midterm elections got off to a crazy start with precincts across the nation reporting difficulties with computer voting machines and massive errors in one county that prevented citizens from casting ballots in 75 precincts. From Indiana and Ohio to Florida and Philadelphia, the problems have put into question whether every vote will indeed

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Hedge funds have officially become a Clinton family staple now that Chelsea got hired by a multi billion-dollar company, her father Bill earns millions as an “advisor” to his billionaire friend’s hedge fund and her mother Hillary gets lots of campaign cash from the entire industry. In fact, the owners of the company (Avenue Capital

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A popular Democrat senator, who plans to run for president in 2008, has admitted having financial ties to a shady political fundraiser known for shaking down companies that want to do business in his state. Illinois Senator Barack Obama and corrupt businessman Antoin Rezko have known each other for years, but a recently exposed real

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Sloppy investigative work by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has led prosecutors to reject nearly 90% of international terrorism cases in the last year, lowering drastically the convictions of individuals the U.S. Government has identified as international terrorists. Though the numbers have peaked in the last year, the trend began around 20001 when the

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After repeatedly embarrassing the government with reports of massive wrongdoing and outright criminal behavior on the part of high-ranking officials, Congress will close the investigative agency it created to report fraud and waste of Iraq reconstruction funds. The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq will be shut down next year, despite its success

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The veteran federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of three public officials has repeatedly used dismissive comments about the seriousness of the charges and even called them idiotic. Senior District Judge John Fullam has skeptically questioned federal prosecutors and challenged them on the charges against three Delaware county officials, which include racketeering, wire fraud

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A top candidate in the New York Attorney General race is campaigning with claims that he eliminated waste and fraud as the nation’s housing secretary when in fact the agency was infested with corruption that ended up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Bill Clinton’s secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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A high-ranking Indian official at the scandal-plagued United Nations has been indicted for accepting bribes to steer millions of dollars in U.N. contracts to a fellow Indian businessman. As chief of the U.N.’s Commodity Procurement Section, Sanjaya Bahel was responsible for awarding contracts worth millions of dollars to companies around the world. Bahel was a

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The crucial midterm elections are only days away but the Department of Justice refuses to penalize states that continue to violate a federal law that requires upgrading outdated and mistake-prone voting systems. That means that states – such as New York and Connecticut–with numerous competitive elections that could help determine which party controls Congress, will

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Claiming it would cause "irreparable harm" to residents, a federal judge has blocked an eastern Pennsylvania city’s law targeting illegal immigrants just hours before it was to go in effect. Earlier this year, officials in Hazelton Pennsylvania passed the tough illegal immigration measure that revokes the business license of companies that employ illegal immigrants, imposes

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