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Atlanta attorney Edward Lindsey says he saw the writing on the wall when he first ran for state representative in 2004. As he went door-to-door canvassing for votes in one of the city's wealthier enclaves, countless residents told him of paying property taxes that didn't reflect the true value of their house, but a value fueled by an assessment of their neighbor's recent renovation. Lindsey may have felt a little guilty. He and his wife had just completed what he described as "an upgrade" - he tore down one house and replaced it with a larger...
People on the outside shouting and banging on our door (we are on the first floor) confirmed that the building had indeed been hit. Within moments we threw on jackets and shoes, grabbed a previously prepared file containing our official documents and left our home. We ran across the street, gathering with the other residents in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters. Young wide-eyed children, wailing infants, men and women stood begging the guard to open the gate and allow them to take cover inside. The guard refused. "Go to the UNRWA...
...extension, Fitzgerald revealed that the investigation, begun in 2003, involves many more suspects than the two thus far charged - Blagojevich and his resigned chief of staff John Harris. Reports are surfacing that the probe is widening beyond the governor into the dealings of his brother Robert, who ran his campaign fund. The motion also noted that "thousands of phone calls were intercepted between late-October 2008 and early-December 2008," that confidential witnesses were used as part of the case and that "multiple witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to discuss their knowledge of criminal activity." Holderman...
...Despite her extensive knowledge of the system, she ran afoul of the IRS in 2005 when it placed a $946 tax lien on her home, accusing her of failing to pay unemployment compensation tax for her household employees. Killefer was cleared shortly thereafter...
...Vietnam as a company commander. He learned his political skills as the Marine liaison to the Senate in the early 1980s. Back in the field in 1991, he led a Marine expeditionary unit into northern Iraq to rescue millions of Kurdish refugees from Saddam Hussein. Two years later, he ran the U.S. aid mission to Bosnia. Jones became the top Marine...