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Customers allegedly videotaped receiving favors at Cheetah In Hallandale Beach, FL

Former state officials cleared in Cheetah tampering inquiry

Shootout at Bottoms Up in Brooklyn, IL

Second man charged in stabbing of off-duty cop at Christina's in Baltimore, MD

Beamers Cafe employee assaulted with a beer bottle by a patron in Stamford, CT

License revocation hearing for Velvet in Richmond, VA

Little Darlings and Déjà Vu end stripper-mobile campaign in Las Vegas, NV

Strip clubs vs. Detroit City Council

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Nancy Pelosi:  jail those who don't buy ObamaCare!

White House propagandist Anita Dunn continues assault against 1st Amendment

Defense Sec'y Robert Gates threatens gov't officials who leak to the press

White House counsel Bob Bauer hired to "erase tracks" between Obama and ACORN

Obama's ACORN connection can't survive inspection

Obama spent more on new programs in nine months than Clinton did in eight years

New York Post:  Challenging Charlie Rangel

Pervasive corruption in Union, SC

Warnings Of Medicare Scams Ignored

Repeated letters to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services warning of multi-million dollar scams against the system by organized crime groups were ignored as reported by Kelli Kennedy for The Associated Press:

For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services received roughly 30 warnings from inspectors over three years — mostly under the Bush administration — but didn't respond to half of them, even after repeated letters, according to records provided to The Associated Press by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley's office.

DeCavalcante Informer Gets 1 1/2 Years

Vincent Palermo, the reputed former acting boss of the DeCavalcante family who had been living in Texas under the witness protection program after turning government informant against the crime family following his 1999 arrest, has been jail for unspecified reasons as reported by Kati Cornell for the New York Post:  "Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff this week sentenced him to 1½ years in prison after weighing his long record against his admittedly 'off-the-charts' cooperation with the feds."  Palermo allegedly had become involved with the strip club industry in Houston.

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William Jefferson gets 11 years . . . longest sentence ever given to a Congressman

Hinds County, MI Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter gets 18 months

Rayford Jackson sentenced to 5 years in Detroit, MI City Hall bribery scheme

IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich seeks delay in corruption trial until Sept. 2010

Judge denies mistrial motion by NY State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno

Judge denies discovery motion by MA State House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi

Corruption trial for Butler County, OH politician Michael Fox set for Dec. 22

Miami, FL Commissioners Michelle Spence-Jones and Angel Gonzalez face charges

History of corruption in Miami, FL

Corruption probe in Luzerne County, PA now involves 19 charged

List of state lawmaker scandals grows in Pennsylvania

Detroit, MI: A Failed City

Anthony Alls, a witness to a murder allegedly committed by three reputed members of the Black Mafia Family in Detroit, MI, was murdered last August in a possible act to keep him from cooperating with law enforcement, and Charlie LeDuff reports for The Detroit News on a "criminal justice system buckling" where "organized criminals . . . walk the streets with impunity."

MS-13 Raid In NYC

Following word that El Salvadoran leaders of MS-13 had put out a hit order on a U.S. federal agent involved with bringing New York-based reputed members of the gang to justice, Team America this morning responded as reported by John Marzulli for the Daily News:

The MS-13 gang's plot to murder a federal agent in New York has triggered a fierce crackdown - a blitz of predawn raids that have netted nine arrests. "If they believe it's business as usual to threaten one of our agents, or any other agent, they're going to find out they're very wrong," said James Hayes Jr., a special agent in charge of investigations for the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  "Our response is going to be swift, decisive and overwhelming."

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More on the use of NEA as propaganda arm of the White House

Former AmeriCorps IG Gerald Walpin fired by Obama cleared of any wrongdoing

Acting AmeriCorps IG Kenneth Bach destroyed documents at White House request

Chutzpah:  ACORN sues federal government over funding cuts

Chicago watchdog:  "significant pockets of fraud and corruption in city government"

Former PA House Speaker John Perzel among 10 charged with corruption

Former Luzerne County, PA deputy county clerk William Brace pleads guilty

 

Unions Buy Congressional Favor

The Canadian Connection

This morning in New York police "rounded up some 40 defendants from Orange, Ulster and Dutchess counties suspected of running a mammoth drug operation that imported cocaine, pills and marijuana from Canada" as reported by the Times Herald-Record.  NYS Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has scheduled a press conference for this afternoon to provide further details.

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TX Gov. Rick Perry:  Obama "hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country"

Pelosi:  ObamaCare is our Christmas present to America

No one knows whether ObamaCare actually will lower or raise premiums

Voters prepare to give the boot to U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd

Former NY Gov. John Eliot Spitzer delivers lecture on ethics at Harvard

SEIU accused of election fraud . . . SEIU's Andy Stern most frequent White House visitor

PA Atty' General expected to file corruption charges against state legislators

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