Word: complaints
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...generally more laid back, a feeling she would miss upon her return home. Even though Piesker encountered a fair number of surprises while living in Ukraine—including cholera, daily power outages, and having running water only eight hours a day—she says her only complaint was minor. “The quality of teaching was not the same,” she says. Though not having access to the Harvard library system for her research was a challenge, she says that sitting at meetings of high-ranking government and church officials conveniently worked out.Finally back...
...fact, some local politicos even considered Harris a spy for Daley in Blagojevich's office. But the criminal complaint, which paints Harris as the chief executioner of Blagojevich's schemes to squeeze the Tribune Co. and Children's Memorial Hospital for contributions or other political favors, among others, suggests it was indeed Blagojevich's bidding that Harris was doing...
...become and how close it had come to sullying his reputation for turning Chicago into a thriving cosmopolitan city by spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education. The probe was led by none other than Patrick Fitzgerald, the same prosecutor who announced the complaint against Blagojevich and Harris...
...Congressman Jackson, however, is now fighting to make sure that his political ambitions, if not his career, survive this tangle with controversy and alleged corruption. A day after the Blagojevich scandal broke, Jackson's attorney admitted that the Congressman was the "Candidate 5" described in the 76-page federal complaint. According to court papers, Blagojevich believed that associates of Candidate 5 had offered to raise as much as $1 million in campaign funds for the governor in exchange for Obama's seat...
Still, many observers say Jackson's public explanation was evasive, allowing him to not contradict the federal complaint and still leave open the possibility that an associate of his may have independently approached Blagojevich about essentially paying for Jackson's appointment. "I wouldn't put it past someone to be purporting to represent Jesse without authority," Jackson's lawyer James Montgomery Jr. told the Chicago Tribune. Another explanation that could exonerate Jackson: Blagojevich may have invoked Jackson's name as a speculative attempt to solicit payment. That scenario is what Jesse Jackson Sr. believes, telling ABC News that...