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PLEADED GUILTY. TONY RUDY, 39, former deputy chief of staff to Representative Tom DeLay; to conspiring with Jack Abramoff in a lobbying-fraud scheme while Rudy worked for DeLay and after he left to become a lobbyist; as part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with a federal investigation...
Securing phony paperwork was part of the scheme, and corporate plant managers often knew in detail how the illegals got their papers. This was apparent in the following exchange between the undercover federal agent arranging for illegals and the manager of a Tyson facility in Glen Allen, Va. The manager is talking about a go-between named Amador who had delivered workers in the past...
...list of environmental crusaders. The CEO of Cinergy, a utility with nine coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, Rogers is an outspoken advocate of regulating carbon and imposing a price on emissions. His position makes him a renegade within his industry, which officially opposes any regulatory scheme that would force power companies to cut carbon emissions. It makes Rogers more likely to be invited to Sierra Club headquarters than to the White House, given that President Bush hasn't called for anything more stringent than voluntary cuts in greenhouse gases...
...When the Prime Minister was prosecuting the case for war in Iraq in early 2003, he pointed to Saddam's cynical and cruel manipulation of the Oil-for-Food scheme. How did the P.M. know? In the background, in classified intelligence and diplomatic cables, a picture was emerging of fees and commissions paid to intermediaries - and then on to Baghdad's monster. When the dust began to settle after the invasion, a June 2003 memo from U.S. military Capt. Blake Puckett reported that every contract in the Oil-for-Food scheme contained a kickback to the regime of between...
...trip to the ’Berg is a solitary one. Though floating seems to be universally dreaded, FM tracked down several contented upperclassmen who flew solo. Tom E. Osborne ’08 went stag last year to avoid blocking drama. “In the grand scheme of things, blocking didn’t seem that important. I didn’t have strong feelings about who I lived with, so I didn’t want another thing to think about,” Osborne wrote in an e-mail. Osborne ended up in Kirkland House, where...