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14 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
How a Criminal Probe into Suspected Conspiracy to ‘Defraud the City’ Was Settled with a Single Misdemeanor MSN – Jeff McDonald (San Diego Union Tribune) | Published: 4/9/2023 When an investigator for District Attorney Summer Stephan was seeking warrants to search Jason Hughes’ home and office, he described a far-reaching conspiracy to swindle San Diego taxpayers out of millions of dollars t [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 7:08 am by Tom Smith
NEWARK, N.J. -- The city of Newark is admitting it got scammed.It was about to become a Sister City with a Hindu nation, but there was one problem -- the nation doesn't exist.As CBS2's Ali Bauman reports, the city only found out about the fraud after it held an official ceremony for it.What started off as a seemingly well-intentioned partnership has turned into a giant embarrassment for the city of Newark.Earlier this year,… [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 8:04 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Advocates Seek Federal Investigation of Multistate Effort to Copy Voting Software MSN – Emma Brown, Aaron Davis, and Jon Swaine (Washington Post) | Published: 12/12/2022 An effort by supporters of former President Trump to copy sensitive voting software in multiple states after the 2020 election deserves attention from the federal government, including a criminal investigation and assessment of the risk posed to election security, according to election-security… [read post]
26 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Congressional Fundraisers Lobby Corporations That Suspended Political Donations Following Capitol Riot MSN – Brian Schwartz (CNBC) | Published: 3/19/2021 Fundraisers for congressional candidates and party campaign arms have been lobbying corporations to resume donating after many suspended their political contributions. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
In an internal draft memo, the Army said the U.S. military should not be needed to help police with traffic and crowd management, as city officials had requested, unless more than 100,000 demonstrators were expected. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Won’t Release White House Virtual Visitor Logs Politico – Anita Kumar | Published: 3/1/2021 President Biden and is under pressure to do more to restore confidence in the federal government following Donald Trump’s term in the White House. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal At U.S.A.I.D., Juggling Political Priorities and Pandemic Response New York Times – Laura Jakes and Pransu Verma | Published: 9/13/2020 Political intervention has roiled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an agency that prides itself as leading the humanitarian response to disasters, conflict, and other emergencies around the world. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal After Online Warnings, Armed Civilians Bring Threat of Violence to Protests in Kenosha and Elsewhere Washington Post – Joshua Partlow, Isaac Stanley-Becker, and Mark Guarino | Published: 8/26/2020 Civilians carrying assault rifles and handguns were visible on the streets in Kenosha throughout the chaotic events that left two people dead and another wounded. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 3:52 am by SHG
Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, N.J., called defunding the police a “bourgeois liberal” solution for addressing systemic racism. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said more than 20 health officials have been fired, resigned, or have retired in recent weeks “due to conditions related to having to enforce and stand up for strong public health tactics during this pandemic. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Amid Pandemic and Upheaval, New Cyber Risks to the Presidential Election MSN – David Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, and Matthew Rosenberg (New York Times) | Published: 6/7/2020 The rush to accommodate remote voting is leading a small number of states to experiment with or expand online voting, an approach the Department of Homeland Security deemed “high risk” in a recent report. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal ‘All Traitors Must Die’: Feds charge man for threatening whistleblower attorney Politico – Natasha Bertrand | Published: 2/20/2020 Federal prosecutors in Michigan charged a man with making a death threat against one of the attorneys for a whistleblower who initiated the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 6 Million Democratic Donors Gave $1 Billion in 2019 Through ActBlue, Officials Say Washington Post – Michelle Ye Hee Lee | Published: 1/9/2020 Democratic small-dollar donors gave $1 billion through the online fundraising platform ActBlue in 2019, highlighting the explosion of online giving on the left heading into the presidential election year. [read post]
3 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Julián Castro Ends Presidential Campaign MSN – Jennifer Medina and Matt Stevens (New York Times) | Published: 1/2/2020 Julián Castro, the former housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who was the only Latino candidate in the Democratic primary, said he would end his bid for the presidency, capping a yearlong campaign where despite struggling in polls, he remained an enduring contender and policy pacesetter on immigration and fighting poverty. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 6:12 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying “APA to Pay $9M to Settle Lobbying Fee Class Action” by Charley Himmel for Courthouse News Service Arkansas: “Lobbyist Tells of Loan Made to Lawmaker” by Michael Wickline for Arkansas Online Campaign Finance Illinois: “Ruling: Campaign finance limits don’t apply to unions with city contracts” by Fran Spielman and Dan Mihalopoulos for Chicago Sun-Times New Jersey: “N.J. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 6:11 am by Jim Sedor
In an apparent oversight, the law omits mayoral and city controller races from the definition of races it covers. [read post]
11 Jan 2014, 1:29 am by Jon Gelman
Insurance Broker, Former Toms River, N.J., Mayor, Sentenced In Separate Schemes Involving Toms River OfficialsTRENTON, N.J. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 8:08 am by Joe May
New Jersey: “N.J. judge: Former Newark mayor violated campaign finance laws” by Phil Gregory in Newsworks New Jersey. [read post]