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...magnitude of Lincoln's collapse and the fraud charges later brought against Keating led the Senate Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into the conduct of the five Senators - now known as the Keating Five - who were thought to have improperly intervened with regulators to protect a campaign contributor. The investigation began in November of 1989 and lasted nearly two years. All five Senators denied improper conduct, claiming that it was Keating's status as a constituent rather than as a donor that motivated their actions; although when Keating was asked whether his financial support had influenced the Senators...
...claims that the uneducated state of rural voters, who handed Thaksin and his successors large electoral mandates, makes them vulnerable to electoral fraud. But vote buying doesn't wholly explain the appeal of populist politicians like Thaksin, who promised villagers health-care benefits and microfinancing options. If elections were held tomorrow, the governing coalition led by the People Power Party, which is packed with Thaksin acolytes, would likely win support again. The final battle, as that one PAD leader calls it, isn't over...
Case: Ashcroft, Former Attorney General v. Iqbal Hearing Date: Dec. 10 Background: Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani man living and working in New York, was arrested on credit card fraud charges after the Sept. 11 attacks. While in custody in the maximum security section of Metropolitan Detention Center, Iqbal allegedly received "gross mistreatment." After being deported, he filed suit against the prison and FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, claiming multiple civil rights violations including that the officials "designed, or at least approved of, a policy of segregating Arab and Muslim detainees from the general prison population...
...Both John McCain and Barack Obama have promised reform if they are elected. Both have promised to reregulate the markets (although McCain has always been a vehement deregulator). Both have promised to scrub the Federal Government for waste, fraud and abuse - a perennial pledge, but one that will actually need to be met if either man hopes to have the credibility to propose any new government spending. Obama wants to spend more than McCain, so he has to work harder to prove his reform chops. Indeed, Obama has tacitly acknowledged the prevailing skepticism by building accountability into some...
...only a week ago, Ukraine’s pro-Western coalition collapsed due to infighting between President Viktor Yushenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, two prominent leaders of the Orange Revolution. Viktor Yanukovich, whose initial victory over Ukrainian President, Victor Yushenko in fraud-plagued elections inspired the 2004 Orange Revolution, remains a major figure on the Ukrainian political scene. And last November, America’s sweetheart, Mr. Saakashvilli, declared a 15-day state of emergency after police broke up opposition protests calling for Mr. Saakashvilli to step down...