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Jury Not Of Their Peers
The reporters investigated the lack of Black participants in the judicial process, from being disproportionately under-represented on juries to a startling lack of Black prosecutors, defenders and judges.
Tags: Department of Justice; DOJ; courts; jury service; lawyers; judges; racial representation; legal system; disproportionate representation; Blacks; African-American communities; Administrative Office of the Courts; racism
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The Untold Story of Tulia, Texas
The author investigated the outcome of FBI and Department of Justice investigations into a 1999 drug bust that caught 10 percent of the town's African American population and was labeled as racially motivated. The author found several inconsistencies in what the media published and what the FBI and DOJ said happened in their reports. Settlements were handed out but the reports were never released.
Tags: racism; FBI; Department of Justice; drugs; Tulia; Texas; unlawful arrest; FOIA; Tom Coleman; ethnic cleansing
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Problems in Paradise
The authors investigated issues facing the City of San Diego including cash flow, poor credit and investigations from the FBI, DOJ, and SEC. Criminal behavior of several councilmen and overall bad management led to indictments, a result aided by the efforts of the reporters.
Tags: City of San Diego; corruption; city government; FBI; Department of Justice; DOJ; SEC; wire taps
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"Illegal...And Thriving"
PartyGaming Inc., a British company that operates on-line gambling sites, is at the vanguard of a global goldrush. Even though 90 percent of PartyGaming's revenues come from the U.S., and the Justice Department swears that online gambling is 100 percent illegal, nothing has been done to stop the trend. And with billions of dollars of potential revenues involved, land-based U.S. casinos are eager to get a piece of the on-line action.
Tags: Internet gaming; Internet gambling; IPO's; offshore companies; DOJ
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Police Force Under Surveillance
The Bakersfield Californian goes beyond the legal mumbo jumbo to find out what really goes on in the force. Reporters talk to former and current officers and members of the community to contribute to their article. The result is an unbiased, honest review of what role racism plays in the Bakersfield Police Department.
Tags: police; cops; brutality; racism; department of justice; doj; racial profiling; bias; civil rights; false charges; harassment; misconduct
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The cell game: Sam Waksal's fast money and false promises -- and the fate of ImClone's cancer drug
This book is a behind-the-scenes look at ImClone and the biotech company's CEO, Sam Waksal. ImClone's drug Erbitux promised a revolutionary way to treat cancer. Bristol-Myers Squibb signed an unprecedented $2 billion deal to market the drug. Waksal lived a life of luxury. But by late December 2001 the FDA rejected Erbitux because ImClone's science was "sloppy" and "incomplete." Waksal tried to cash in before his stock plummeted on the news. He forged signatures and traded his family's shares on inside information, an unfolding scandal that also ensnared Martha Stewart, a friend of Waksal. He is now in jail.
Tags: BOOK; ImClone; Erbitux; Waksal; cancer drug; insider trading; FDA; SEC; DOJ
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Unmasking Qwest
Faced with a collapsing telecom market, Colorado's largest employer took accounting shortcuts now under investigation by the SEC and DOJ. Already, the new managers of the company have revised more than $1 billion in claimed revenue.
Tags: business; SEC; account management
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"Operation Enduring Liberty"; "The Cops Are Watching You"; "The Big Chill"; "Vigilante Justice"; "Homeland Security X 50"; "Foreign? Suspicious!"; "D.C.'s Virtual Panopticon"
Series of articles in an issue of The Nation following various aspects of the "war on terror." Dreyfuss details the makeup of Maryland's Joint Terrorism Task Force and local police ties with the FBI field office. Cooper talks to Arabs in California who are seeing their organizations' numbers decline. Bach discusses citizens' groups that are encouraged to act as watchdogs on their neighbors, giving the example of a high school student with an expired visa who was turned in to authorities by his guidance counselor. Pell examines state laws and proposed laws creating new definitions of and punishments for "terrorism." Evans raises the issue of drivers' licenses and documentation of aliens. Parenti follows the installation of closed circuit television (CCTV) in Washington, D.C., and other cities. Several articles touch on the classification of protest groups in America as "terrorists."
Tags: homeland security; terrorism; police; immigrant; immigration; Ashcroft; civil liberties; Patriot Act; detainees; FBI; ACLU; Arab; Muslim; DOJ; INS; Justice Department; bioterrorism; bioterror; CCTV; surveillance
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The Death Squad/Who Lives, Who Dies.
Part 1: How the Department of Justice decides who is tried--and who isn't--under the expanded federal capital punishment law. The officials sift through the gruesome evidence of recently filed federal murder cases--and decide whether the government should seek the death penalty for the defendants. Part 2: DOJ seeks consistenceyin capital cases, but defense bar cites vagaries. Is there uniformity or bias?
Tags: crime; court; law; death row; Janet Reno. lawyer
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Can Janet Reno Get a Grip On Her Job?
US News & World Report provides an assessment of attorney general Janet Reno's problems in managing the Justice Department; concludes that Reno has failed to set priorities, thus failing to establish a clear direction for the department.