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Nevada’s new governor is being investigated for the gifts and cash he got from a company he helped get millions of dollars in federal contracts while serving in Congress and a powerful House committee. As a member of the House Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, Republican Jim Gibbons wielded tremendous power and federal investigators believe he used it to award his friend’s software company lucrative contracts and, in turn,…
The recently elected governor of Nevada is making international headlines for his involvement in several scandals, including a federal corruption investigation, highlighted in reviews of his first 100 days in office. A former five-term Congressman, Republican Jim Gibbons has brought quite a bit of bad political baggage with him to the governor’s office. The most serious includes a federal investigation into his corrupt relationship with a …
…of University Women. While Senator Durbin was busy orchestrating a scheme with liberal groups to obstruct the president’s judicial nominees, Senator Edward Kennedy purposefully delayed the confirmation of Judge Julia S. Gibbons to impact the outcome of a specific judicial decision, according to an April 17, 2002 internal staff memo. At the time, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals was considering a controversial case involving the race-based…
For the second time in a week Nevada’s governor has been sued, this time by a high-ranking state employee fired for reporting the governor’s personal use of a state cell phone to send hundreds of text messages to a girlfriend. The veteran state worker claims she was removed from her job as head of the division that audits the governor’s office after telling her boss about Republican Governor Jim Gibbons’ inappropriate use of his state cell pho…
…le negotiations on the Coyote Springs deal. Leif Reid even called his father’s office to talk about obtaining the proper permits. Talk about a conflict of interest!) Senator John Ensign (R-NV) and then-Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV), who now serves as Governor of Nevada, are also implicated in the deal. Ensign and Gibbons both supported the Coyote Springs project at key stages, and also received campaign contributions from Whittemore. …
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