“These companies took bailout dollars from taxpayers and turned around to lobby against shutoff moratoria proven to save lives.” (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Over a dozen leading U.S. utility companies took more than a billion ...
On April 20, President Joe Biden remarked that the police murder of George Floyd “ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism” in American policing, and he called for action at all ...
Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, joined the likes of Amazon and AstraZeneca to take advantage of the pandemic to become noticeably richer. Murthy, who previously served as surgeon general in the Obama ...
Barr’s views on the role of religion in public life, while less publicized than his cheerleading for executive power, are equally virulent. Attorney General Bill Barr is by far the most dangerous member of Donald ...
“If this helps, good… But you can’t buy back trust in government—or the water coming out of your faucet.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Six years after residents in Flint, Michigan began relying on their ...
“I have never in my career faced so much difficulty attempting to trial monitor as in Julian Assange’s case.” — Rebecca Vincent, Director of International Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
“Just how twisted is the Senate GOP coronavirus bill you ask? It includes $686 million for new F-35 fighter jets.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a floor speech late Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...
“No other president has retained ownership of a massive global business while serving, so this president’s self-enrichment and conflicts of interest represent a unique and unprecedented affront to the democracy.” The Supreme Court rejected President ...
No private, unelected entity should have the power over the economy that BlackRock has, without a legally enforceable fiduciary duty to wield it in the public interest. (Common Dreams) BlackRock is a global financial giant ...
A mountain of studies on wealth inequality have shown its corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community ...
“We’re facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership ...
“As Covid-19 cases began to increase, senators and representatives from both parties traded securities—many related to the pandemic itself.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A new analysis of financial disclosure documents found that Republican and Democratic ...
“Payday lenders exploit millions of working families through predatory practices. Congress shouldn’t prop them up during this crisis.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is pressing the Trump administration to ...
During an interview with Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow asked who owned the patent for the vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” said Salk. “There is no ...
Shalala broke federal law by not disclosing stock sales in 2019 as required by the STOCK Act. When Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Donna Shalala as the sole Democrat to the five-person Congressional ...
“This is impossible to understand — the government intentionally misled the victims but found a way to get away with it by working with a child molester to get around the law. And the judges ...
The survey was taken as Congress debated a $4.5 trillion corporate bailout amid the coronavirus pandemic. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) New polling out Wednesday backdropped by the continuing coronavirus outbreak shows that most of ...
“Obviously helping certain enterprises is important, so I’m not opposed to industry aid. But the terms and conditions matter, and based on what I’m seeing, I don’t believe there will be meaningful restrictions on this ...
“People are tired of these kind of political investigations,” Romney said, “and would hope that if there is something of significance that needs to be evaluated, it would be done by perhaps the F.B.I. and ...
Though the fallout from the Iowa Caucus is still fresh, it appears that the technology-driven chaos and corruption seen in Iowa have not served as a warning to the Nevada Democratic Party. LAS VEGAS – ...
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a tranche of documents implicating Africa’s richest women in mismanagement of Angola’s state oil company. Newly-leaked documents revealed Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan President José Eduardo ...
“The corruption is absolutely shameless.” (By: Julia Kelly, Common Dreams) More than a dozen former lobbying clients of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt have spent nearly $30 million convincing the Trump administration to do the bidding ...
“It’s point blank, a violation of the premier anti-corruption provision of the United States Constitution, the emolument clause, because it will involve payments and benefits, and promotion, to the president’s property.” White House Acting Chief ...
“An administration staffed by former industry lobbyists will almost certainly favor industry over the general public.” In less than three years, President Trump has assigned more former lobbyists to Cabinet-level positions than former Presidents Obama ...
According to CREW, the president has spent nearly a third of his presidency visiting his business properties at taxpayer expense. More than 30 Senate Democrats proposed a law this week to ban the spending of ...
“There’s a certain irony in hearing the president attacking a city and region when his own son-in-law was directly involved in creating the conditions where that quality of life was threatened.” President Trump targeted Baltimore ...
“Let me get this straight. You’re still due to get at least a million-dollar payout from when you lobbied for Raytheon. You won’t commit to recuse yourself.” Mark Esper won the approval of the Senate ...
In the latest chapter in ongoing litigation, the private equity fund that bought what used to be called the Trump Ocean Club claims the Trump entities pocketed money that should have gone to the Panamanian ...
![Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin provide an update on Iran Policy and Sanctions at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/45736593061_65c987ef78_h-288x180.jpg "AOC, Warren Press Mnuchin on Potential Illegal Involvement in Sears’ Bankruptcy 28")
“We are deeply concerned by the financial engineering and potentially illegal activity that took place at Sears Holding Corporation while you (Mnuchin) served on the company’s board.” Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Alexandria ...
Allegations of voter fraud could lead to a new election in the North Carolina congressional race. According to unofficial ballots Republican Mark Harris led Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the 9th Congressional District. ...
(Maplight) More than four months after Scott Pruitt resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency in disgrace, the public is finally receiving details about the special interest money spent to confirm him as the agency’s administrator. ...
If found guilty, top executives in two big oil companies could go to jail and the companies risk enormous penalties, including relinquishing an oil-rich region. In what is now one of the biggest corporate corruption ...
Chairs, stakeholders, employees, and more of one South African bank, Venda Building Society, committed $2.4 million in fraud over the course of only a few years. An investigation has revealed the most shocking instance of ...
Thanks to the S.W.A.M.P. Index you can now know how well your state fights corruption compared to the rest of the country – North Dakota you got work to do. The non-partisan group Coalition for ...
(Represent.Us) An Appeals Court in Missouri just delivered the latest victory to the anti-corruption movement, ruling to keep the Anti-Corruption Act on the ballot and shut down the lobbyist lawsuit to stop the people from ...
Despite the propaganda, the media hype, the Hollywood movies and the endless talk about American democracy, the U.S. is not actually a democracy. It is not really a republic either, it’s a plutocracy. Do you ...
Alexander Williams Jr. a retired U.S District Judge has been tasked with leading an investigation panel that will look into the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) corruption scandal. The investigation comes at a ...
For the first time, a government official has been indicted for deaths resulting from the Flint water crisis in Michigan. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director Nick Lyon is charged with the ...
(Stop The Drug War) Last week, the good citizens of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie County got a rude shock. The county’s top lawmen, Sheriff William Brewer, was at the courthouse, which was not unusual. This time, though, ...
(Represent.Us) The people just won a major victory in the fight to pass anti-gerrymandering laws at the ballot this year. A dark money group tried to attack the measure by suing to remove it from ...
Africa has some of the poorest nations in the world, and with billions of dollars per year lost through financial crime, the poor are only getting poorer. Rising financial crime in Africa has become a ...
Politicians paying for votes is nothing new, but it has perhaps never been as brash as it was last Sunday when at an event headlined by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and Chicago Mayoral candidate officials ...
GEO Group is America’s largest private prison company with 141 prison facilities across the U.S. but a new report from MapLight in conjunction with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting reveals the company may have violated ...
July 18th will mark 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela – South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero, global icon and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Mandela, who died in 2013, bore the brunt of the ...
Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption. The sentenced was set by Justice Muhammad Bashir of the accountability court in Islamabad. The anti-corruption court also ...
The chief of Brazilian’s appeal court has overruled another judge’s ruling to immediately release former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, affectionately known as Lula, from prison. The effort to release the charismatic politician ...
A recent documentary titled #12 (number 12) premiered by ace Ghanaian Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, on 6th June in Accra to expose the deep-seated corruption in the football circles in Ghana and Africa has ...
A Singaporean woman, Gursharan Kaur Sharon Rachael, has been sentenced to a prison term of two years and nine months for her participation in what is known as the “Fat Leonard Scandal.” Gursharan, 57, was ...
Monsanto is facing the first ever lawsuit over its flagship product and weedkiller Roundup on Monday. Thousands of pages of discovery documents related to the case were analyzed by researchers who found that Monsanto has been ...
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