Thursday, March 19, 2026

Tag: corruption

VA official pleads guilty to bribery, fraud, and obstruction charges

From 2015 through 2017, James King used his position as a Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program counselor at the VA to demand bribes from the owners of at least three separate schools in exchange for funds using the veterans’ federal benefits.

‘That’s not who we are?’ Well, you are what you do,...

These attacks on sovereign nations are, without question, illegal, unjustifiable and a stain on America’s reputation. Is that who we are?

Three Miami police officers arrested on drug trafficking charges

“No one wants corrupt officers in our police departments or on our streets.”

Murder before the fall? The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi puts a...

While the position that the United States and its allies take will be important, especially if they impose sanctions, the case is perhaps more interesting for what it says about the region’s growing rivalries.

Former Equifax manager sentenced to home confinement for insider trading

“The integrity of the stock markets and the confidence of investors are impaired by those who use nonpublic information for personal gain.”
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Investigation: As US-backed war in Yemen raged, UAE hired US mercenaries...

“There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen. I was running it.”

Kavanaugh: Trump’s latest, greatest exposure of swamp-dwellers

Getting snagged by this corrupt White House sets one up for an unimpeded water slide to infamy.

Former county executive and chief of staff sentenced to prison

Michael Sanders defrauded political committees by converting campaign contributions for his personal use along with his then-chief of staff Calvin Williford.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 21

American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, ICE is arresting the sponsors of undocumented children, and more.

Former top aide to NY Gov. Cuomo sentenced to 6yrs in...

Although Gov. Andrew Cuomo has not been charged in the case, his administration has taken official state action to benefit large companies that paid bribes to his former top aide.

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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things

Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death. 

‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...

More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.

Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.

Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!

So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.