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Some of the famous names listed include CNN's Larry King, the family trust of Jeffrey Katzenberg, and New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon. The list also shows massive duplication in some accounts. One victim, for example, "Melvin Marder CPA," appears more than 250 times, while another, "Sosnick Bell & Co.," shows up more than 700 times. Sterling Equities is listed close to 200 times...
...lobbying disclosure law applies to organizations and individuals who make lobbying contacts," explains Fred Wertheimer, a good-government lobbyist for Democracy 21. "It does not apply to sitting down and strategizing about how to win a battle in Congress." Furthermore, the lobbying law applies only to those who spend more than 20% of their professional time making contacts...
...Sunday, making her first appearance on Italian TV since marrying Sarkozy, Bruni vigorously denied any involvement in the Battisti case, calling reports that she'd brought the case up with Lula "slanderous." Still, French novelist Fred Vargas, who has been leading the campaign in support of Battisti and has managed to speak to top Brazilian officials, has said that she'd lobbied Bruni directly about the case. (See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni celebrating Bastille...
...adding padded nooks for kids who need enclosed spaces or substituting a rubber ground for the wood chips currently used in many play areas. "Recreation is not just about fun and games. It's about building social skills and developing a child's mind," says Boundless Playground CEO Fred Leone. "Every child, with disabilities or not, has a right to that." (Read about the link between green space and kids' gaining less weight...
...Schapiro's financial self-regulation background may not be enough. According to Dr. Fred Dunbar, senior vice president at NERA, an economic consulting firm, "banks are suppose to behave themselves under self-rule." During the Bush Administration this popular belief drifted over to the SEC, Dunbar says. "The feeling was, with the SEC, that with such self-enforcement they wouldn't have to step up their own enforcement. But the financial crisis has led to a re-examination of this theory, firms don't behave as one might think in theory...