Scott Pruitt has resigned. It seemingly took forever, but the anti-environment EPA administrator with the incredibly strong sense of personal entitlement who took favors from lobbyists, treated taxpayer funds as his personal bank account, and used federal employees as family servants, finally wore o[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
November 18th, 2017 - 2:49 pm § in Donald Trump
We don’t know that guy. That’s not us in the photos.
The Trump family resorts to the ostrich defense as their involvement with a Panama resort hotel described as “a laundromat for dirty money” explodes into the headlines. Watch video here and read story here. Photos: Ivanka and Donald Trump posing with fugitive financier Alexandre Ventura[...]
October 30th, 2017 - 6:15 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
INDICTED
Paul Manafort and his longtime business partner, Rick Gates. Trump must be getting nervous.[...]
October 27th, 2017 - 7:48 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
First Mueller indictments expected
A grand jury has approved the first indictments in Mueller’s Russia investigation. Arrests are expected Monday. Read story at CNN website (here). Photo: Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has already been told he’s going down. Who else is in the hot seat? Stay tuned for the crime st[...]
BREAKING NEWS: FBI INVESTIGATING TRUMP, TRUMP TWEETS
COMEY CONFIRMS: FBI INVESTIGATING TRUMP Meanwhile Trump is Tweeting and the GOP wants to Bring Benghazi Back NYTIMES: Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina and Mrs. Clinton’s Grand Benghazi Inquisitor, has turned into the Inspector Javert of intelligence leaks. And who is he bl[...]
January 15th, 2017 - 11:08 am § in Politics
GOP chief threatens ethics watchdog
Reince Preibus, chair of the Republican National Committee and soon to become White House Chief of Staff, doesn’t like Walter Schaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, calling for President-Elect Trump to divest his far-flung business interests before assuming office. Priebus compla[...]
January 13th, 2016 - 5:55 pm § in Politics
“Heart doctors outraged Florida dumps hospital standards after big gifts to GOP”
I may get in copyright trouble for quoting this CNN headline verbatim, but this is one of those things that must be allowed to speak for itself. Read the story here and here. Excerpt: “The state of Florida is putting thousands of children with heart defects at risk, a group of cardiac doctors[...]
August 10th, 2015 - 9:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Disgraced Ferguson court clerk gets a new job
Ex-Ferguson court clerk Mary Ann Twitty, who was a key player in the Ferguson police/municipal court shakedown racket that raised millions for the city budget by abusively targeting poor black residents for tickets and fines, and ultimately was fired from that job because of her racist tweets, has a[...]
August 10th, 2015 - 8:55 pm § in Politics
Family political connections keep Kansas bully out of jail
“Undulating fields of crops and livestock-dotted pastures are the domain of a trigger-happy bully who brags about a political cloak of invincibility keeping him beyond reach of the law in faithfully conservative Linn County. Adversaries say he has woven a liquor-infused tapestry of fear colo[...]
TRUMP ALLY APPOINTS WIFE AS VICE PRESIDENT