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A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme Court held that a nominee company called MERS has no right or standing to bring an action for foreclosure. MERS is an acronym for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a private company that registers mortgages electronically and tracks changes in ownership. The significance of the holding is that if MERS has no standing to foreclose, then nobody has standing to foreclose on 60...

Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House Tough fight still ahead in Senate, and two versions have wide differences WASHINGTON - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The final vote was 220-215. Only one Republican — Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana — voted for the measure; 39 Democrats voted against it. Obama praised the House in a statement and said he is "absolutely confident" that the Senate will pass its version of...

The tallest building in America is getting a new name. Chicago's Sears Tower will be renamed Willis Tower after London-based Willis Group Holdings. The insurance broker announced the name change and other details of its agreement with the building's owners Thursday. Willis is moving five offices and nearly 500 employees into the 110-story building. The move is expected to be completed by late summer. Willis will occupy more than 140,000 square feet at $14.50 a square foot.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7, 2009 – A massive reconstruction of the historic Louisiana National Guard headquarters is under way and inching closer to its projected completion date of January 2010. Reconstruction has begun on a building that will house the Louisiana adjutant general's office at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans. Jackson Barracks is the Louisiana National Guard headquarters that was heavily damaged in 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Beyonka Joseph  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Jackson Barracks, built in the mid-1830s, was heavily damaged by flood waters after Hurricane Katrina devastated...

China's President Hu Jintao made a landmark visit to Cuba Tuesday, bearing millions of dollars in aid and promises of closer future trade ties. The Chinese leader brought 4.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid for victims of three hurricanes that battered Cuba this year, which was handed over late Monday after Hu's arrival at the Jose Marti International Airport. Receiving the gift, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation Rodrigo Malmierca said that Cuba "deeply appreciates the visit of President Hu Jintao, at the exact moment the country is struggling to recover and continue its development." It was the third...

BOSTON - More than 80 years ago, the Hook brothers started trucking their catch of lobsters from Maine and Canada to Boston's fish piers, selling them directly to the city's top restaurants. Ever since, four generations of Hooks have kept their seafood wholesale business in a squat wooden building with a corrugated steel roof, resisting multiple offers from developers as luxury hotels, gleaming office towers and the Big Dig highway project dwarfed and surrounded them. On Friday, a seven-alarm fire gutted their landmark waterfront location, causing $5 million in damage that included the loss of 60,000 pounds of lobster, but...

Televangelist Pat Robertson is considering buying The Virginian-Pilot, a newspaper he has criticized for its coverage of his activities. Norfolk-based Landmark Communications Inc. announced last week that it was evaluating whether to sell its assets, including The Weather Channel and the Pilot, its flagship newspaper. Robertson said in a statement to the paper Thursday that he is considering a potential bid. He said owning the newspaper would help provide internships for journalism students at Regent University, a school he founded in Virginia Beach. Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, has said the newspaper has characterized him unfairly.

Kaine shuns special session to repeal 'abuser fees' July 14, 2007 By Seth McLaughlin The first paragraph Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has no plans to call a special General Assembly session to consider repealing new fees against bad drivers, despite public outrage, a potential lawsuit and a lawmaker's demand that he do so. The last paragraphThe governor's office estimated the new law would affect only about 2 percent of Virginians.

UNITED NATIONS - American architect Michael Adlerstein was appointed Monday to oversee the $1.9 billion renovation of the landmark United Nations headquarters building overlooking New York's East River. Adlerstein will be executive director of a long-delayed project to modernize the 39-story glass-and-steel building, which has not had a major overhaul in its 55-year existence and now violates safety and fire codes. A native New Yorker, Adlerstein is vice president and architect of the New York Botanical Garden, America's oldest and most respected center for horticulture and botanical research. In the 1980s, he was project director for the ambitious restoration of...

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind makes moan, Earth stands hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow has fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, Then I to my computer go. Then I do my computer go, to Free Republic land, Electronically to take my stand, There to post thread on thread, thead on thread, Until some folks might wish me dead. O let us raise a cup of cheer in honor of this place Even though as days go by and we ne'er meet face to face, O Let me say to one and all, one and all,...

The land where Jesus once walked soon will recognize "gay marriage." In a landmark 6-1 decision, Israel's Supreme Court Nov. 21 ordered the government to begin recognizing "gay marriages" from other countries, such as Canada. Although the decision doesn't give homosexual couples the ability to "marry" within Israel's borders, it nonetheless puts Israel....

37,000 Acres of Irvine Ranch Land Receives Prestigious ‘National Natural Landmark’ Designation from U.S. Department of Interior • ‘The Irvine Ranch National Natural Landmark’ joins Mount Shasta, Anza Borrego, Hawaii’s Diamond Head and other beloved national landmarks • Honor recognizes designated land as “a nationally significant natural area” • First site in California to receive NNL designation since 1987 • Land is “a shining example of our nation’s natural treasures,” says National Park Service Director Fran Mainella • Governor Schwarzenegger notes, “Today’s event celebrates another area of our state that can be enjoyed for generations.” NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Standing on...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The House Judiciary Committee today approved two landmark bills fighting the War on Terror. The first, H.R. 6054, the "Military Commissions Act," establishes terrorist tribunals and was approved without amendment by a 20-to-19 margin. All 17 Democrats today voted against this legislation, which overwhelmingly passed the House Armed Services Committee last week by a 52-to-8 margin. The second bill, H.R. 5825, the "Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act," updates and reforms the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to fight the modern terrorist threat and provides increased congressional and FISA Court oversight of surveillance operations. After adopting...

For the first time the office, in addition to imposing fines, is seeking to seize the landlords' properties, using a statute in the state code normally applied to antitrust cases. Authorities allege that the landlords sought to circumvent local renter-protection laws by locking tenants out of their buildings, failing to make timely repairs, making false and misleading representations that the building was being condemned and turning off utilities. At the low-rent Huntington Hotel downtown, electricity and water were turned off for extended periods, according to court documents, and tenants were threatened with violence or the removal of their property unless...

BOSTON - Gov. Mitt Romney on Wednesday signed into law a landmark bill designed to guarantee virtually all Massachusetts residents have health insurance. However, the governor vetoed a key portion of the bill — a $295-per-worker assessment on businesses that do not provide health insurance. Some critics have called that provision a tax on businesses. The bill, intended to extend coverage to Massachusetts' estimated 550,000 uninsured, is being touted as a national model, thrusting the state to the forefront of the national debate about how to provide near-universal health care coverage without creating a single government-controlled system. It's also a...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Votes were being counted after Iraq's legislative election saw a strong turnout with minimal violence, bringing hope for a nation wracked by sectarian conflict, with the prospect also of tempting minority Sunnis back to the political process. Electoral officials briefly extended Thursday's voting owing to the turnout, which preliminary estimates put at between 60 and 80 percent, surpassing an October referendum, with Sunni Arabs casting ballots in record numbers. "Turnout was very strong in all regions, even in Fallujah," a Sunni city in the rebel Al-Anbar province, senior electoral official Hussein Hindawi said. The huge task of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Eric Christensen October 27, 2005 703-554-6100 703-554-6119 (fax) eric@landmarklegal.org www.landmarklegal.org (LEESBURG, VA)…Landmark Legal Foundation won a significant victory recently when it forced the California Teachers Union (CTA) to offer full refunds to nonunion, fee paying teachers for a special $60 per teacher assessment that the union is using to fund a $50 million campaign to defeat ballot initiatives in the November 5 special election. Landmark filed a complaint on September 14 with the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) documenting how the union’s special assessment would be used to retire a $50 million debt amassed for...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's landmark constitution was adopted by a majority of voters during the country's Oct. 15 referendum, as Sunni Arab opponents failed to muster enough support to defeat it, election officials said Tuesday. Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq showed that Sunni Arabs, who had sharply opposed the draft document, failed to produce the two-thirds "no" vote they would have needed in at least three of Iraq's 18 provinces to defeat it. Nationwide, 78.59 percent voted for the charter while 21.41 percent voted against, the commission said. The charter required a simple majority nationwide with...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghans chose a legislature for the first time in decades Sunday, embracing their newly recovered democratic rights and braving threats of Taliban attacks to cast votes in schools, tents and mosques. --- snip ---- With nearly three-quarters of the populace illiterate, voting was slow as people spent as much as 10 minutes wading through ballots up to seven pages long to find pictures of candidates or symbols that represent them. Each voter dipped a finger in indelible purple ink to prevent repeat voting.

Steven Van Zandt, Tommy Ramone, Debbie Harry, Ted Leo, Jesse Malin, and more band together to save the beleaguered NY landmark. Debbie Harry performs Blondie classics at CBGB, hopefully not for the last time. / Photo by Lane Brown If the graffiti-splattered, poster-covered walls of CBGB could talk, aside from asking for a good scrubbing, they might wax nostalgic about an era when they watched the Ramones grow up and fantasized as Debbie Harry sauntered across the stage. With those legendary walls facing possible demolition in a month, the venue's owner kicked off a month-long campaign on Monday to save...

Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land. Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.On Monday...

It stood by the river for thousands of years, shaped by wind, water, heat and cold, and was admired by countless visitors easing past in canoes, boats and inner tubes. It became part of a town's identity and a bond across generations. But the Devil's Chair, an ancient natural rock formation on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River near Taylors Falls, is largely gone -- a heap of broken stone scattered about what was the chair's base.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eric Christensen 703-554-6100 (Leesburg, VA) Landmark Legal Foundation today demanded that Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy stop his personal assault on the federal judiciary, especially the United States Supreme Court. Landmark president Mark R. Levin said, “I am deeply concerned that Kennedy and some of his colleagues have helped create a dangerous environment of disrespect and hostility for the federal judiciary. Starting with the vicious attack on Judge Robert Bork’s character in 1987, and continuing with several of President Bush’s nominees, Kennedy, working with People for the American Way and other groups, has sought to tear down the...

April 6, 2005 Senator Edward Kennedy United States Senate Washington, D.C. Dear Senator Kennedy: I am deeply concerned that your comments, and those of certain of your colleagues, have helped create an environment of disrespect and hostility for the federal judiciary. For example, several years ago, you made a floor speech personally attacking President Ronald Reagan’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court, federal appellate judge Robert Bork. Among other things, you said: Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break...

I have a brother who has some real personal problems from his past that has gotten involved with an organization called Landmark Forum. This has been going on for over a year, maybe two and has never been and issue with anyone in the family - until recently. He called us late one night and said that he wnated to throw a birthday party for "Bette" which, for our family, means that he is talking about our mom. Part of his problems had to do with a very painful split from our family, so this wasn't too much of a...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A legislative conference committee passed a landmark workers' compensation reform bill early Thursday, setting the stage for Assembly and Senate floor votes Friday to cut costs to California businesses by billions of dollars. The six-member committee approved the bill at 3:30 a.m., handing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a political victory in overhauling a system with the nation's highest bills to employers and some of its lowest benefits to injured workers. The governor succeeded in pushing through two key elements: The bill will not regulate insurance rates but allows insurers and employers to select pools of doctors injured workers...

Thomas H. Kean, Chair Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 301 7th Street, SW Room 5125 Washington, DC 20407 Dear Messrs. Kean and Hamilton: Landmark Legal Foundation, a national public interest law firm that specializes in government accountability, formally requests that the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ("Commission") request that Ms. Jamie S. Gorelick step aside as a Commission member. Ms. Gorelick is hopelessly conflicted in her role as a Commission member, given the numerous issues about which she has knowledge resulting from her service as Deputy Attorney...

Prosecutors rebuked in Limbaugh inquiry By Peter Franceschina Staff Writer January 29, 2004 The general counsel for the Florida Attorney General's Office criticized Palm Beach County prosecutors Wednesday, asserting they mischaracterized the office's input into the prosecutors' decision to release documents last week in the Rush Limbaugh investigation. The letter gave fresh ammunition to Limbaugh and his attorney Roy Black in their attacks against Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer for his handling of the prescription drug investigation. Also on Wednesday, a conservative public-interest law firm that supports Limbaugh filed ethics complaints with The Florida Bar against Krischer and...

January 28, 2004 The Florida Bar Department of Lawyer Regulation 651 East Jefferson Street Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300 Re: Barry Krischer, Palm Beach County State’s Attorney Ken Selvig, Palm Beach County Assistant State’s Attorney Dear Sir or Madam: This is a complaint pursuant to the Florida Rules of Professional Conduct, concerning the conduct of Mr. Barry Krischer and Mr. Ken Selvig, of the Palm Beach County State’s Attorney’s Office (“SAO”). On January 22, 2004, the Sun Sentinel reported that Palm Beach County State’s Attorney Krischer’s office released to it letters between attorneys representing Rush Limbaugh and the SAO. (Exhibit 1, Sun...

Pro, con Limbaugh e-mails released By Peter Franceschina Staff Writer Posted January 24 2004 Palm Beach County prosecutors have been flooded with a torrent of e-mails since their investigation into Rush Limbaugh's prescription drug use first became public in early October. Hundreds of impassioned viewpoints from all over the country were among documents prosecutors released Friday in response to a request made by a conservative public-interest law firm for all public records in the case.

This is an excerpt Conservative public-interest law firm suggests 'journalist shopping,' seeks records from State Attorney's Office. A conservative public-interest law firm is seeking records from the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office, in an attempt to determine if the office has planted negative stories in the media about an investigation into Rush Limbaugh.

LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION January 15, 2004 Mr. Barry Krischer State Attorney Palm Beach County 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 Mr. Steve Yeaw Custodian of Records Palm Beach County 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 BY FIRST CLASS MAIL AND FACSIMILE Re: Request for Expedited Production of Public Records Dear Messrs. Krischer and Yeaw: This is a request for public records pursuant to the Florida Public Records Act, Ch. 119, Florida Statutes. This request seeks all public records in the custody of the State Attorney's Office ("SAO") for the County of Palm Beach, or...

For more than a decade, Kern County farmers and water officials have been complaining bitterly about irrigation water they lost when federal agencies began diverting it to protect endangered fish. Now, a court has ruled that federal agencies must pay for water they took for environmental protection in the early 1990s, an estimated $26 million. In a case that could leave the government liable in other programs around the country, a federal claims court judge in Washington, D.C., has given agricultural and urban water agencies a major victory.The ruling is a blow to environmentalists and federal environmental officials who argued...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued fresh calls for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction during a landmark Turkish visit on Tuesday, but defended his right to acquire them against Israeli "aggression." Assad, seeking to cultivate better relations with Turkey after decades of frostiness and a near war, said Ankara -- which has close ties with nuclear power Israel as well as the United States -- had backed his appeals. "I see that the Turkish side is looking warmly on this, and embraces it in principle," Assad, making the first official trip to Turkey by...

Throughout the past decade, the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers' union, has spent tens of millions of dollars from members' tax-exempt dues fighting the Democratic Party's political battles and promoting the election of Democrats. As the Landmark Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm, has argued in complaints filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Labor, these NEA expenditures, which are above and beyond the legal contributions from the union's political action committee, have been spent in violation of several federal laws. Mark Levin, president of Landmark, has never questioned the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2003 CONTACT: Eric Christensen (703) 689-2370 (703) 689-2373 (fax) info@landmarklegal.org www.landmarklegal.org (HERNDON, VA)…Landmark Legal Foundation, the leading authority on the political activities of the nation’s teachers unions, today has formally requested that the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Criminal and Tax Divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice take criminal action against the National Education Association (NEA) for violating federal reporting and tax requirements. Landmark has examined thousands of pages of NEA internal strategic planning and budgetary documents, tax returns and other materials that prove that the union has...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt Thursday for destroying computer files during the Clinton administration that had been sought by a conservative legal foundation. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered the EPA to pay the Landmark Legal Foundation's legal fees and costs because the agency disobeyed his order to preserve the electronic records of former chief Carol Browner. Lamberth ordered the sanctions because he said the EPA had shown "contumacious conduct" - obstinate resistance to authority. "This is a major victory for those who believe the EPA has an obligation to comply...

CONTACT: Eric Christensen, 703-689-2370 July 15, 2003 Senator Carl Levin United States Senate 269 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Re: Iraq's nuclear program Dear Senator Levin: Landmark Legal Foundation ("Landmark"), like you, is concerned that when public officials make representations about a matter as grave as Iraq's nuclear program, that such representations are properly sourced. We understand that you have called for wide-reaching investigations into the President's statement during his January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." You allege that...

PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said the state should sell the Arizona State Fairgrounds in central Phoenix to help clean up Arizona's budget mess. The proposed sale is one of the suggestions the governor made Wednesday when releasing summaries of her budget plan. Quick Poll Should the state try to sell the fairgrounds on eBay? Yes No No opinion View Results Vote in other Polls Napolitano said the $5 million from selling the fairgrounds, including Veterans Memorial Coliseum, could help shrink the expected $1 billion shortfall next fiscal year. With newer Phoenix venues such as Bank One Ballpark, America...

House Editorial The political action committees (PACs) of the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) cumulatively contributed more than $2.5 million to Democratic congressional candidates through Oct. 21, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That made the teachers PACs the biggest contributors to Democratic candidates. But a recent analysis by the Landmark Legal Foundation virtually proves that the hard-money contributions from teachers PACs represent the veritable tip of the iceberg for political spending by public school educators. Moreover, as Landmark meticulously documents, the state affiliates of the NEA seem to have "no more respect...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Eric Christensen (703) 689-2370 (703) 689-2373 (fax) info@landmarklegal.org (Herndon, VA)...Landmark Legal Foundation announced today that it has included the political activities and expenditures of every National Education Association (NEA) state affiliate in its ongoing efforts to monitor the union’s compliance with federal tax, election and labor reporting laws. The announcement signals a major expansion of Landmark’s five-year old NEA Accountability Project. “It seems that NEA’s state affiliates have no more respect for federal law than their national union,” explained Landmark President Mark R. Levin. “In state after state throughout this last election cycle, NEA affiliates appear to...

<p>Last week we criticized the Internal Revenue Service for revealing the names of hundreds of taxpayers in its tax-shelter lawsuit against KPMG. Then on Monday we published two carefully worded letters from Treasury [see below- TR], IRS and Justice Department officials involved in the dispute acknowledging "missteps" and promising that it won't happen again.</p>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 23, 2002 Contact: Eric Christensen 703-689-2370 Landmark Files Complaint With Office Of Professional Responsibility Requesting Investigation of Justice Department Attorneys Who Released Names Of Taxpayers (Herndon, Virginia) Landmark Legal Foundation filed a formal complaint today with the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (“OPR”) requesting an immediate investigation into the conduct of the government lawyers responsible for disclosing the identities of scores of taxpayers in public court filings. (United States v. KPMG LLP.) Landmark contends that the Tax Division attorneys responsible for the release of the taxpayers’ identities did so in contravention of Section 6103...

Until 1995, Cleveland public schools were a disgrace. Students left them with the worst record of academic performance in the state of Ohio, and among the worst in the nation. They had a dropout rate of almost 70 percent. As a result, most families that could afford to pulled their children out of the public schools, leaving mostly children from low-income or minority families sentenced to a life of poverty and ignorance. To solve this problem, Ohio created a financial-aid program that enables parents to lift their children out of this swamp by giving them vouchers to pay tuition at...

WASHINGTON- Where you stood on unions may have depended Thursday on where you stood on Capitol Hill. At a Senate hearing, a Louisiana mariner told sympathetic Democrats about the harassment and threats he said workers faced from boat companies when they tried to unionize. "It shouldn't be this hard to form a union," said Eric Vizier of Galliano, La. On the opposite side of the Capitol, a very different union tale was unfolding at another sympathetic hearing - this time in front of House Republicans. An Ohio school psychologist talked of being forced to join and subsidize a union that...

Landmark President Mark R. Levin will testify 10 a.m.m, tomorrow before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Subcommittee on Worforce Protections, Room 2175 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. Mark will testify oabout Landmark's complaints to the IRS, the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor over the National Education Association's political expenditures and activities in violation of federal tax, finance and labor laws. The hearing promises to be exciting because NEA General Counsel Robert Chanin is also scheduled to appear on behalf of the union!

A large number of lawmakers who practice school choice by sending their children to private schools consistently preach — and vote — against legislation that would enable poor parents to do the same, a new survey conducted by the Heritage Foundation has found. Last year, 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators sent at least one of their children to a private school, the survey found. Those numbers are up from 40 percent and 49 percent, respectively, according to a similar survey conducted by the foundation in 2000. Specifically, 69 of 273 House members who last year...

A conservative watchdog group has written a letter to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy asking him to step aside as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, was "forced to resign from the Senate Intelligence Committee" in 1987 because he disclosed confidential information to reporters, said Mark R. Levin, president of the Landmark Legal Foundation. "If you cannot be trusted to serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee, then you cannot be trusted to serve as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at a time when that committee is overseeing an investigation into the government's intelligence operations — specifically,...

Senator Patrick Leahy Chairman Senate Judiciary Committee 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 June 4, 2002 Re: Status of Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy Dear Senator Leahy: On July 28, 1987, you were forced to resign from the Senate Intelligence Committee (“Committee”). Specifically, you disclosed to one or more reporters information from a confidential draft report that the Committee had voted against releasing. Landmark Legal Foundation (“Landmark”) contacted the Senate Ethics Committee in search of any investigative information relating to your unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Landmark was informed that any such information no longer exists. To this...