The disgraced New York police commissioner that Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani recommended to head the Department of Homeland Security has been federally charged with corruption. At Giuliani’s request, Bernard Kerik was nominated by President George W. Bush to be secretary of Homeland Security a few years ago and Kerik proudly stood next to the

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A veteran U.S. congressman who violated House ethics rules for secretly accepting an all-expense paid family trip from a terrorist government has proposed tax legislation that will greatly benefit his campaign contributors. Democrat New York Representative Charles Rangel, chairman of the powerful House and Ways Committee, has slipped a crucial provision into a broad tax

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In yet another example of how national security is regularly compromised at airports, 23 illegal immigrants have been arrested for using fake security badges to work in critical areas at one of the country’s busiest airports. The illegal immigrants used false or stolen Social Security numbers to obtain their security badges to work at Chicago’s

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Millions of dollars in federal Homeland Security grants are supposed to help local and state agencies protect the public and enhance disaster response time, yet fire departments in one state have used the money to beef up their gyms and their biceps. Administered through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the taxpayer money that goes

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  Public employees at a county agency already in trouble for wasting more than $1 million on unnecessary equipment have stolen thousands of dollars in gift cards and entertainment tickets earmarked for foster children. Los Angeles County’s child welfare workers used the cards and tickets—bought with tax dollars—to get themselves meals and attend musical events.

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A Texas businessman, who is a top Democratic fundraiser and has donated the federal limit to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is under investigation for practicing law without a license and impersonating a sheriff’s deputy to silence a woman he sexually assaulted. Renowned in ritzy Corpus Christi circles, Mauricio Celis is one of Texas’ most generous

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The prominent defense contractor who guaranteed he would be vindicated of charges that he bribed a jailed congressman with cash, trips and hookers was convicted by a jury of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and wire fraud. After a three-week trial that included graphic testimony of a U.S. Congressman’s rendezvous with prostitutes in a Hawaiian resort

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In a blatant violation of the ethics code, the chief of the federal agency charged with protecting Americans from dangerous products regularly accepted lavish gift travel from industries she regulated, including the makers of products linked to consumer hazards. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s chief and former chief each took dozens of trips from

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National Illegal Immigrant Sanctuary Movement     Although congregations in 50 U.S. cities are flaunting their participation in a sanctuary movement that harbors illegal immigrants with deportation orders, federal authorities refuse to take action in order to avoid a “media circus and a confrontation.” It is against the law to harbor illegal immigrants or shield them

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Nearly two years after being convicted for starring in Illinois’ biggest political scandal, the state’s former governor will finally report to a federal prison next week to begin serving a 6 ½-year sentence for corruption. Former Governor George Ryan has managed to remain free on bond while his attorney’s appeal his bribery and racketeering conviction

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