Latest Political corruption Stories
LONDON, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- New UK laws which could put workers behind bars and hit companies with unlimited fines are passing into law unnoticed by US businesses with offices in the UK. According to research from international law firm Eversheds, which looked at both UK and international companies, many US businesses are in the dark over the new Bribery Bill, due to receive Royal Assent shortly, with 50% of US businesses unaware that failing to prevent bribery will be a criminal...
MONROE, N.Y., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Shady dealings, corruption at the highest levels of government, and the ruthless pursuit of money and power: It's politics as usual in The Corrupt Republic, the explosive new political thriller by Andrew Buck (General National/CreateSpace, ISBN 1449596851, http://www.thecorruptrepublic.com). Inspired by Americans' growing distrust of Wall Street and Washington, The Corrupt Republic is Buck's debut novel. It tells the all-too-believable story of one...
PALM DESERT, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Couri, founder of Scamraiders.com, a pro-active website whose mission is "HELPING PEOPLE TO HELP THEMSELVES", has published an open letter to the New York Times, in response to a blog posted by Mr. John Eligon on Friday, February 5th, 2010, on the Times' "City Room" section online. "It's is regrettable that the New York Times has chosen not to review the substantial evidence of corruption, collusion and unethical activities that has been...
AMSTERDAM, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A fully updated and rewritten third edition of the bestselling original Machiavelli in Brussels, enriched with new facts and figures, lobby cases and findings, and also takes into account the new Treaty of Lisbon. More Machiavelli in Brussels. The Art of Lobbying the EU Rinus van Schendelen More Machiavelli in Brussels is about winning, or at least not losing, one's interest - particuÂÂlarly within the EU where countless...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International aid agency Oxfam America filed a shareholder resolution today with Chevron calling on the California-based oil company to adopt a comprehensive policy of publicly disclosing payments made to governments where the company operates. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080221/DC14723LOGO) The resolution, filed on International Human Rights Day, aims to promote the rights of citizens in oil-rich countries by providing them...
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A survey by Dow Jones has found that more than half of companies are delaying or abandoning key business initiatives as executives struggle to both interpret a patch-work of anti-corruption regulations and collect the information they need to confidently assess corruption risk. The survey results were released on the United Nations' International Anti-Corruption Day, December 9, 2009. According to the Dow Jones State of Anti-Corruption Compliance Survey,...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following are the comments of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.): "Decision time is nearing on health insurance reform, and I will vote to end the filibuster on Saturday so the Senate can begin this important and historic debate. We cannot afford to let the health industry's sentries of the status quo kick the can down the road as they have done so often before. The country suffers when there is a failure to act on serious challenges that ordinary...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Senate Finance Committee handed a major victory to the health care industry Tuesday by voting down two proposals that would have created a "public option" to compete against private health insurance providers as part of an overhaul of the nation's health care system. The industry has fought the public option with lobbying expenses and campaign contributions since the beginning of the year, fearing that the proposed policy would cut into...
New video, website urge political schemer to stick to dancing, rejects new GOP attempts to gerrymander their way to power WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay launches his new career as a dancer tonight, the Democratic Governors Association sends him their best wishes, and hopes that his new life on the television promenade will mean the death of partisan gerrymandering. "Tom, keep your jazz hands off redistricting," said Nathan Daschle,...
PALM DESERT, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Scamraiders.com, a pro-active website whose mission is "HELPING PEOPLE TO HELP THEMSELVES", and who reports, investigates and fights against corruption and scams, has published an expose on several attempts by a New York/Madison, WI doctor and a New York lawyer to undermine Scamraiders investigation into their allegedly dishonest and illegal activities. Scamraiders' investigation has uncovered multiple (and well-documented) attempts to...
