The third major donor of a U.S. Senate candidate who is currently Florida’s governor has been criminally charged in a large scale corruption scheme, illustrating a pattern of shady fundraisers for the veteran Republican politician who may soon represent the Sunshine State in Congress.  As he campaigns for national office, Florida Governor Charlie Crist is

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Nearly a year after House Republicans created a much-ballyhooed committee on earmark reform, it has done nothing to repair the notoriously unethical—and often corrupt—method of publicly funding pet projects for the politically connected. In fact, eight of the 10 Republicans who serve on the highly touted Select Committee on Earmark Reform have continued to seek

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Federal immigration authorities are crediting a crucial team effort with local law enforcement agencies nationwide for a substantial increase in the number of criminally convicted illegal aliens in the last year.  The Department of Homeland Security’s largest investigative agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reports that agents assigned to find fugitives who have ignored deportation

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A prominent big-city mayor who served nearly three decades in the U.S. House and headed its powerful Armed Services Committee owes nearly a quarter of a million dollars in back income taxes even though his annual salary and congressional pension amount to almost $300,000.  Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums failed to pay income taxes for at

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A relatively new federal program that allows illegal immigrants to use their American-born anchor babies to collect welfare for the entire family has expanded nationwide and nearly doubled in a western state that already spends hundreds of millions of dollars to provide undocumented residents with public services.  The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF)

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Forced by a legal settlement to disclose White House visitors, the Obama Administration has reluctantly revealed a smidgen of the high-dollar fundraisers, lobbyists and celebrities who have visited the executive mansion and disputed the identities of various controversial figures. Never the less, the administration is shamelessly touting the publication of its selective visitor list as

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For the second time in less than a month, a federal officer with the key Homeland Security agency patrolling the U.S. border has been criminally charged for smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico. Just a few weeks ago, a separate Texas Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent was indicted for bribery and conspiracy to unlawfully transport

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In the latest scandal to rock a perpetually corrupt local government, the District of Columbia’s council chairman illegally used official stationery to solicit donations for the Democratic Party and secretly had a politically connected city contractor renovate his house.The double whammy was exposed this week by two separate Washington D.C. newspapers hot on the prominent

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Under fire for failing to act against corrupt lawmakers, the notoriously remiss House Ethics Committee is in fact scrutinizing dozens of legislators, according to a highly confidential memorandum that mysteriously appeared this week.  Washington D.C.’s largest newspaper reports that an internal memo, inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, indicates that the ethics committee

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A group of illegal immigrants recently spared deportation by a sympathetic Connecticut judge are suing the federal agents that arrested them, claiming their constitutional rights were violated in the raids that led to their apprehension. The illegal aliens, who live in New Haven, assert in a federal lawsuit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents

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