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...threat of attack. But the dangers are increasing. U.S. oil executive Ricky Wiginton, 51, was shot dead in Port Harcourt by assailants riding a motorbike as he drove to work at drilling-equipment maker Baker Hughes last week, and a day later three oil workers with Italian oil contractor Saipem were kidnapped in the same city but later released. mend says it was not responsible for either act, but whoever is doing the killing has spooked the oil companies. Shell, which is by the far the largest operator in Nigeria, has been forced to evacuate staff and scale back operations...
ALPHONSO JACKSON, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, recounting a conversation with a prospective advertising contractor. Jackson later apologized and said he made up the story...
...level, he said. The Methuen office of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating the incident, said OSHA spokesman John M. Chavez. The investigation by OSHA, which is a division of the US Department of Labor, is looking into whether there was negligence by either Harvard or a contractor, Chavez said. “The law places the responsibility for workplace safety and health on employers.” “So part of the investigation would determine who the responsible employer is, whether it was the contractor or Harvard,” he added...
...simultaneous raids in Virginia Friday, at Foggo's executive suite and his house, are part of the continuing investigation surrounding former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who admitted to accepting bribes from defense contractors in November. Both the CIA inspector general and the Justice Department have been digging into the relationship between Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who is known to be the person identified as "co-conspirator No. 1" in Cunningham's guilty plea...
...number three official at the Central Intelligence Agency, who announced this week he is stepping down as his boss Director Porter Goss leaves later this month, cleared defense contractor Brent Wilkes in for at least one visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., within the last 12 months, sources tell TIME.The visit occurred before Wilkes was cited - though not charged - in ex-congressman Randy ?Duke? Cunningham?s November guilty plea as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided over $600,000 of the $2.4 million in bribes that Cunningham admitted accepting from defense contractors. (Though Wilkes is not named...