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SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is being paid $1 million a year for his role as a consultant to a company that publishes several fitness magazines, a deal critics say represents a serious conflict of interest for the former bodybuilding champion. The payments, revealed Wednesday in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are from Schwarzenegger's consulting job with American Media Operations, a subsidiary of the company that publishes Flex and Muscle & Fitness magazines, among others. Critics say the contract is a conflict of interest because Schwarzenegger's pay comes from the magazines' advertising revenue and the magazines...

SACRAMENTO — Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to "further the business objectives" of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines. The contract pays Schwarzenegger 1% of the magazines' advertising revenue, much of which comes from makers of nutritional supplements. Last year, the governor vetoed legislation that would have imposed government regulations on the supplement industry. According to records filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Schwarzenegger entered into the agreement with a subsidiary of American Media Inc. on Nov. 15,...

Rep. Wu acts to aid Wiederhorn The Oregon congressman writes asking that an inmate, part of the Capital Consultants scandal, be kept in state for medical care Friday, May 13, 2005 JEFF MANNING U.S. Rep. David Wu has intervened in the case of imprisoned Portland executive Andrew Wiederhorn, urging the chief of the federal prison system to hold off on a plan to transfer Wiederhorn to a Minnesota prison hospital. Calling Wiederhorn his "friend and constituent," Wu, D-Ore., said in a May 10 letter to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that Wiederhorn needs special treatment for diabetes and should be...

Army Radio Journalist Admits 'Conspiracy of Silence' 14:07 May 13, '05 / 4 Iyar 5765 A leading Army Radio journalist has confessed that the media and political systems have turned a blind eye in allowing/encouraging the disengagement at the price of democracy. "I have failed. We have failed," wrote Kaveh Shafran, political affairs correspondent for Israel Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) in a recent article for the Israeli Institute for Democracy. "As a diplomatic correspondent, I was among those who in the past year were supposed to tell the public exactly what is the disengagement plan, why it was created, how...

U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz is blasting Sen. Hillary Clinton's key accuser, Peter Paul, whose allegations spurred the indictment of David Rosen, the finance chairman for Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign. In a trial that began Tuesday in Los Angeles with Judge Matz presiding, Rosen is charged with filing false reports to the Federal Election Commission in connection with an August 2000 Hollywood gala fund-raiser that Paul produced. While outlining instructions he intends to give the jury, Judge Matz, who was appointed by President Clinton, called Paul "a thoroughly discredited, corrupt individual." "He's a con artist. The fact that he...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is investigating whether a senior official at one of its agencies, Justin Leites, violated U.N. rules and the organization's spirit of international neutrality by taking a paid leave of absence last year to work as a Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign official in his home state of Maine.

Greene County Division of Family Services Surreptitiously Invite Prosecutor and Defendant to same Meeting: Conflict of Interest Questioned. May 2, 2005 During a recent Family Services Team Meeting conducted by the Greene County Division of Family Services a serious conflict of interest was recorded. Sitting at the same table as the father in this open disclosure meeting was a Greene County Prosecutor. Jill Patterson, the prosecutor, recently leveled charges of child abuse against the Father for an incident that allegedly occurred in December of 2001. The Father has plead Not Guilty in the case which is currently working it's way...

Friday, March 25, 2005 10:57 p.m. EST Greer Got Donation From Mike Schiavo's Lawyer Reclaiming America, an organization backed by Rev. D. James Kennedy, reported that a serious conflict of interest may exist for the Fla. State Judge who is ruling on the Terri Schiavo case. The report from Reclaiming America follows: As if the circumstances surrounding Terri Schiavo could not get any more suspicious, the Center for Reclaiming America has uncovered evidence that Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Judge George W. Greer accepted a campaign contribution from the law firm of Michael Schiavo’s attorney only one day after "Terri’s Law” was...

Day 5 going into Day 6 of no food or water for Terri. Affidavit of William Polk Cheshire, Jr., M.D., M.A., F.A.A.N., who Examined Terri Schiavo on 3/23/05: http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Affidavit.pdf Florida DCF files petition for intervention: http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Petition%20for%20Intervention%20in%20Schiavo%20Case.pdf

Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's parents are running out of legal options. Last week, Judge George Greer overturned more than 10 motions designed to prevent their daughter from being starved to death. Now they're looking to the Florida legislature to save her. Bob and Mary Schindler, along with dozens of pro-life advocates, lobbied state lawmakers on Sunday to pass legislation that would protect Terri and other disabled people like her. The Florida legislature is considering a measure that would require courts and doctors to assume that disabled patients who are unable to make their own medical decisions would not...

Paul Volcker was picked by U.N. Sec retary-General Kofi Annan to head an "independent" panel to investi gate the Oil-for-Food scandal ostensibly because of the former Federal Reserve chairman's international credibility. But credibility, like fame, can be fleeting — and Volcker's is fading fast. [snip] As Fox News Channel's Jonathan Hunt reported yesterday, Volcker is smack in the middle of the interlocking global corporations that appear to lie at the very heart of the scandal. Proceed slowly; it's complicated: [snip] * Volcker, along with a close friend named Paul Desmarais, Sr., sits on the advisory council of a Canadian...

Here is a sampling of recent Loven quotes that have appeared on the AP Wire. HEADLINE: Bush claims Kerry and congressional liberals will hurt the economy BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer I like this juxtaposition to make Bush look bad. "Kerry has proposed paying for new initiatives by rolling back taxes only on the wealthiest Americans. Bush said, 'We're not going to let them tax anybody, because we're going to win in November.'" Why the use of the qualifier "only?" Obviously to make Kerry sound like a reasonable guy who reall yloves tax cuts as long as it...

<p>An SBC board member is also one of the largest investors in rival MCI -- a situation that Wall Street analysts and experts in business ethics say represents a clear conflict of interest.</p> <p>Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, 64, the richest man in Latin America and a major telecom investor, has sat on SBC's board since 1993. He served until last month as chairman of Telmex, Mexico's largest phone company, in which SBC holds an 8 percent stake.</p>

POLITICS Hearing on Controversial Dem Memos Could Be Soon By David Brody Congressional Correspondent April 27, 2004 The content of the memos detail how Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee seem to be taking marching orders from liberal special-interest groups, when it comes to derailing President Bush's judicial nominees. CBN.com – CAPITOL HILL - Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee may find themselves on the hot seat soon, especially Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). CBN News has learned that there is a good chance the Senate will hold hearings on Democratic memos that reveal possible collusion and obstruction of justice between...

<p>September 11 commission member Jamie S. Gorelick, who recused herself from questioning some Clinton administration officials last week, still can help draft parts of the board's final report on the "wall" between intelligence and law enforcement that she defended while in the Clinton Justice Department.</p>

9/11 Commissioner Caught in Conflict of InterestSpeaking on his radio program Friday, talk show host Rush Limbaugh predicted 9/11 Commissioner and former Clinton Administration operative Jamie Gorelick would not resign her post despite the rising tide of criticism and questions over a potential conflict of interest."Gorelick won't resign because she has been ordered to protect Clinton, Reno and the Democrats," said Limbaugh.Gorelick's problems emerged on Tuesday when Attorney General John Ashcroft declassified a Justice Department memo (PDF) written by Gorelick in 1995 in her capacity as Deputy Attorney General under the Clinton Administration. The memo mandated a policy that would...

In 1989, Jamie Gorelick authored a 21 page booklet for The American Bar Association titled: "Conflicts of Interest in a Changing Legal Environment : Traps for the Unwary." Also in 1989, she co-authored "Destruction of Evidence" with Stephen Marzen and Lawrence Solum. Published in New York: Wiley Law Publications, Description: xxvii, 516 p. ; 27 cm. Series: Trial practice library.And again in 1989, she authored a 26 pages booklet for The American Bar Association titled: "Structuring the Internal Investigation When a Corporation is Faced With Parallel Civil, Criminal and Administrative Proceedings."In 1988, for The American Bar Association, she authored a...

I don't do this very often, so forgive me. I was watching the ABC program tonight on Donald Rumsfeld at 8 P.M. EST. Right in the middle of the show, here appears Richard Clarke, and down in the corner is the little ABC logo with the words ABC (SOMETHING) CONSULTANT. (Not sure what TYPE of consultant, but definitely CONSULTANT.

<p>Radio personality Don Imus called CBS' Lesley Stahl a "gutless, lying weasel" yesterday for abruptly canceling an interview during which Mr. Imus planned to hammer her about a conflict of interest, the New York Post reports.</p> <p>"I realize it's a little late in your life, honey, to start gettin' honest, but just say, 'I don't want to appear on the program ... because I heard what he said earlier this morning,' " Mr. Imus railed on his nationally syndicated radio program, which is also broadcast on cable-TV network MSNBC.</p>

SACRAMENTO - A key Senate committee rejected a consumer group's call to investigate Sen. Don Perata and said the East Bay politician's financial dealings are "no cause for discipline." The bipartisan decision, sent in a letter dated Thursday to the group, gave Perata, D-Oakland, the vindication he sought after a newspaper reported he received about $100,000 in consulting fees that raised conflict-of-interest questions. The Senate Rules Committee concluded the matter did not meet 'the threshold" to spur a full inquiry. "A mere allegation that conduct 'looks bad' is not sufficient to trigger an ethics investigation," the committee's letter said. The...