The complete meltdown in subprime mortgages has caused a total makeover of the investment industry. The effect of the makeover... View Article
Continue readingCRP tracks beneficiaries of belly-up banks
Our friends at the Center for Responsive Politics have been doing yeoman's work compiling lists of the politicians who've received the most money over the years from political action committees and employees and their family members of the big financial colossi that are seeking (or having imposed on them) federal help to stave off collapse. Their Lehman Brothers list is here while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ">here.
To see who in Congress invested in these operations, CRP has compiled an analysis of Freddie and Fannie holdings here; you can also dig into search results for Lehman ...
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Rangel’s Disclosure Discrepancies
Like a man sinking in quicksand, Rep. Charles Rangel continues, with every flailing day, to sink further as more discrepancies... View Article
Continue readingGood But Not Good Enough: USASpending.org
Gautham Nagesh, writing at NextGov, reports on how USASpending.gov is failing to provide up-to-date information on government contracts and grants.... View Article
Continue readingTracking earmarks from Obama and Biden
Taxpayers for Commons Sense rolled out a pair of new databases on earmarks of presidential candidates, this time covering Sen. Barack Obama's requests from 2006 to 2008, and his funded earmarks for 2008. The databases are online here.
A list of the earmarks Sen. Joe Biden requested for fiscal year 2009 is available here. Robert Bluey at Red State is calling on Biden to disclose all his earmark requests--can't argue with that. But for those who want to dig around in the press release archives of his site, there are plenty of releases like this one from prior ...
Continue readingCompetition We Like: Who’s the Most Transparent?
Mike Allen at The Politico reports that the Obama/Biden campaign is planning to use disclosure as a way to challenge... View Article
Continue readingMr. Schneider Goes to Washington
Looking for something to do this weekend? An offbeat filmmaker has focused on Washington’s money chase, and is making his... View Article
Continue readingDept. of Interior Oil Scandal
Yesterday, the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior released multiple reports revealing widespread corruption in the Mineral Management... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here
If you’re a lawmaker, or former CIA official, caught in a corruption investigation there are many different ways to get... View Article
Continue readingLooking Back at the Convention Parties
Our Party Time hostess, Nancy Watzman, looks back fondly over her two weeks of Democratic and Republican convention party crashing... View Article
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