A federal agent who investigated health care fraud for the U.S. government pleaded guilty to forgery and fraud for illegally seizing more than $1 million to buy property and pay off his mortgage. The veteran agent, Scott Gompert, worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General and created

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A popular elected county official with plans to run as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in California has been indicted on federal corruption charges for illegally using his public office for financial gain. Considered a rising political star in California, Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona may instead face prison time. A 10-count federal indictment

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  Amid controversies of indicted fugitive donors, a Palestinian money trail and a corrupt presidential campaign co chair impeached as a federal judge, Hillary Clinton has proudly accepted the endorsement of a powerful union boss with documented mob ties and an upcoming bribery trial. The corrupt union head, Michael Forde, supported Clinton during her 2000

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Increased border security and work enforcement have led to a huge decrease in the billions of dollars that illegal immigrants in the U.S. send to Mexico annually and immigration advocates say Mexicans are suffering because they can’t pay medical bills or buy clothes. The U.S.-dependent Mexican economy gets about $24 billion annually in remittances from

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The Republican Idaho Senator who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after soliciting sex in an airport bathroom has used about $23,000 in campaign funds to pay for a Washington lawyer to represent him before the Senate Ethics Committee. Federal campaign finance laws prohibit legislators from using campaign money for expenses unrelated to their duties as

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Three months after a medical services company hired a Bush appointee who for years was in charge of Pentagon health programs the firm got a $790 million government contract to do work that two other firms proposed doing for millions less. Wisconsin-based Logistics Health Inc got the lucrative government contract to provide immunizations and physical

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Mexican illegal immigrants have taken advantage of the California wildfires, looting and stealing from evacuated homes and victim shelters and entering the country through vulnerable border crossings abandoned by U.S. agents forced out by flames. More than 1,400 homes were lost in the catastrophic fires that burned hundreds of thousands of acres throughout southern California

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The governor of Missouri is being sued for racial discrimination because he terminated a state contract with a janitorial company that employed numerous illegal immigrants, some with fake Social Security and U.S. residency cards. As part of his initiative to crack down on illegal immigration, Governor Matt Blunt vowed earlier this year to immediately cancel

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While increased security on the Mexican border has reduced the number of illegal crossers, it has also magnified violence among professional smugglers connected to drug cartels that often outgun U.S. Border Patrol agents. Soon-to-be-released Homeland Security statistics reveal that the U.S. crackdown has indeed deterred Individuals from attempting to enter the country illegally, but it

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Six Mexican illegal immigrants were arrested for stealing food and water from a southern California evacuation center housing victims of the devastating fire that has been proclaimed a natural disaster by the president. The illegal immigrants took the supplies from a San Diego football stadium where thousands of evacuees have been forced to stay because

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