Promises of continuing financial support versus the prospect of political ruin were key factors for at least two of the three county supervisors who approved a controversial $102 million settlement with developer Colonies Partners LP in 2006, according to testimony before the county's Grand Jury earlier this year. The county's attorneys refused to ratify the settlement, warning then-Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Postmus that the settlement was "a gift of public funds" and a breach of the government's fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers, according to testimony in the Grand Jury transcripts released Friday.
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - 25th Anniversary Issue The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was intended to attack both organized crime and white collar crime, and the statute should be used against professionals to prosecute them for crimes that cost the economy billions of dollars. Some courts have mistakenly interpreted the US Supreme Court's Reves v. Ernst & Young decision as a safe harbor for professionals not involved in operation or management of a defrauding enterprise. Accomplice liability and conspiracy laws are unchanged by Reves, which only address principal liability, and courts should not be swayed by immunity arguments that cloak professional misdeeds.
WHEN President Barack Obama told the media why he had released his long-form birth certificate, all I could think of was Pakistan. Yes, Pakistan, where no conspiracy theory is too bizarre and you'll hear that 9/11 was a Zionist plot - and Osama bin Laden a U.S. agent. Ordinary Pakistanis turn to conspiracy theories to explain the overwhelming problems that face them. But those unhinged theories distract them and their leaders from dealing with real problems that could do them in.
Indiana discusses the importance of recognizing that words like conspiracy and paranoid have limited credible application in political analysis or in everyday life. Fusing them into a single concept vanquishes malign motives behind the political and business decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people. Like in the Gilded Age, which produced a golden age of journalistic muckraking, the public knew that amoral greed resorts to subterfuge and conspiracy, as the press was not monopolized feeding at the same trough as the robber barons.
FORT LEE, N.J., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association (NIA) is getting ready to release its latest feature documentary 'College Conspiracy'. NIA intends to release the movie 5 days from now on Sunday, May 15th. 'College Conspiracy' will be the most comprehensive documentary ever produced that exposes the facts and truth about U.S. college education, which NIA considers to be the largest scam in American history. Despite college tuition inflation being the most consistent form of price inflation over the past decade, 70.1% of high school graduates are currently enrolling into college, a new record. The value of a college degree is declining even faster than tuitions are skyrocketing in price, but students are being brainwashed by the college-industrial complex, ...
More than three years ago, a federal jury acquitted Antwaun Ball on racketeering and conspiracy charges that he led a violent drug gang in the Congress Park neighborhood in Southeast Washington, convicting him solely of a $600, half-ounce drug deal. But at Ball's long-delayed sentencing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts disagreed, saying he saw clear evidence of a drug conspiracy before sentencing Ball, 40, to more than 18 years in prison for his conviction in the 2001 hand-to-hand drug transaction.
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