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There are signs the gilt-edged resumes, and political futures, of three former Fannie executives have already been tarnished, because of findings they profited from manipulation of financial results in 1998. Former Fannie Mae chief James A. Johnson, who holds a top post in the Democratic presidential campaign and headed the Kennedy Center and the Brookings Institution; Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lawrence M. Small; and Washington lawyer Jamie Gorelick, a former Fannie vice chairman, who has served as deputy attorney general, the Pentagon's top lawyer and a member of the 9-11 commission, joined Raines and Howard in receiving sizable bonuses that year....

Loral Space and Communications has hit hard times in recent years. On June 28, a Sea Launch Russian Zenit-3SL rocket failed to put the Loral Telstar 18 satellite into a proper orbit. Loral officials stated the big telecommunications satellite had enough on-board fuel to reach a proper orbit but the failure typifies a long series of wrong turns for the ailing satellite firm. In 2002, Loral Space reached a settlement with the State Department over charges of passing advanced military technology to the Chinese Army. Loral agreed to pay $20 million in fines, but did not admit nor deny wrongdoing....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—“It is disturbing that the voter mobilization arm of the Democratic Party is proudly hiring felons convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary to go house to house and handle sensitive personal information.” “Democrat voters should be leery of opening their doors to political operatives until the Democrats can assure them that a convicted felon won't be on the other side.”

I will apologize in advance if these are redundant, loop back to identical links, etc.-- this is what I was able to grab quickly from existing files I keep, and while some of the information has been posted before, there is new material added since the "Wall Street Meltdown" occurred.Take it FWIW- any decent search engine will find far more that this: Babbitt: Just for the "H" of it- quick search of FR:MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, ... ... MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHNMcCAIN? Crime/Corruption Front Page News Keywords: EMPRISE, MCCAIN,...

The news this morning for Citigroup, Inc., one of Enron's largest creditors, is bad. The New York Times reports that "senior credit officers of Citigroup misrepresented the full nature of a 1999 transaction with Enron in the records of the deal so that Enron could ignore accounting requirements and hide its true financial condition, according to internal bank documents and government investigators." The Wall Street Journal reports that Enron "marketed similarly structured deals to a slew of other companies." [Posted on FR here.] And yesterday, the Washington Post reported that Citigroup, along with J. P. Morgan Chase & Co.,...

<p>Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman said he would subpoena the Enron-related testimony of former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin "in a minute" if the senator felt that Mr. Rubin could "add something," Dave Boyer of The Washington Times reported yesterday.</p>

MISSOURI CITY -- Authorities are looking into allegations that several election judges in Fort Bend County illegally gave away lists of people who had voted in Tuesday's primary runoffs. Precinct 2 Constable Ruben Davis said he received a tip Tuesday morning that someone was entering polling places and asking election judges for the lists. It is a Class C misdemeanor under Texas election laws for an election worker to reveal the names of those who have or have not voted. "When I first heard about this I laughed because I didn't think this could happen," Davis said Wednesday. "I'm not...