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Search results for "Bill Warren" ...
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Curve Ball
"This is the story of how an Iraqi con man fooled the world's top intelligence agencies. He was code named "Curve Ball" and his testimony - that Saddam Hussein had mobile biological weapons - provided the backbone of the administration's case for going to war."
Tags: con job; Curve Ball; war on terror; Iraq war; Iraqi; biological weapons; Rafid Ahmed Alwan; bioterrorism;
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Gates Foundation Investigation
LA Times examined which companies the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in to see if those companies matched the foundation's ideals. The Times found that "about 41% o the foundation's investments (excluding government bonds and loaned investments), were in companies whose activities end o run directly counter to the foundation's philanthropic goals or high-minded philosophy."
Tags: Bill Gates; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; non profits; charities; investments; global health; housing instability; Berkshire Hathaway Corp.; Warren Buffett
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Cape Utilities
"Property owners in the City of Cape Coral, FL were being asked to pay as much as $40,000 when public utilities (water, sewer, irrigation) lines were installed in front of their homes." The city paid major profits to one contractor, and then overcharged for the utilities and "ignored millions of dollars in savings."
Tags: Utilities; water; sewer; irrigation; utility bills; no-bid contracts
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City Government Investigations
This set of three stories are investigative reports by the Wichita Eagle. The first looks at a mayoral candidate's hidden history of domestic violence. The second story looks at misuse of funds by city officials and other financial frauds like improper donations given by major city contractors. The third story looks at fraud in a job-training program.
Tags: mayoral candidate; Bill Warren; Crojne and Sons; DETAMC; Job training center; Pamela Johnson; George Johnson
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Killed By Parolees; Did Cornejo & Sons Contribute Illegally?; BOE settlement hidden
City Hall: Mayoral candidate's hidden history of domestic violence complaints; fraud and abuse in publicly funded job training program; misuse of travel funds by city officials; City Hall contract tampering; improper donations by a major city contractor. Parollees: More than two dozen Kansans had died at the hands of parolles in the past four years. Nearly, two-thirds who were killed were on at least their second chance at parole; more than a third of the parollees had broken contact with their parole officers before their arrest; and the state made little effort to find parollees who disappeared. School District: the Wichita school district kept a teach on the payroll eight years after the first complaints about is conduct with young teenage girls, they cloaked its settlement of his rape victim's lawsuit in secrecy.
Tags: City Hall; Parolees; Board Of Education; Kansas Legislature; Department of Corrections; Ethics Commission; Sexual Harassment; Bill Warren; Campaign Finance