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"Cash Committee"
In this story, Huffington Post reporters show the "revolving door" between Congress and "industry," and how both use the House Financial Services Committee to raise money for lawmakers, especially in the private sector.
Tags: House Financial Services Committee; lawmakers; House; Congress; lobbyists; private sector; Wall Street; the Hill
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The DeParle Portfolio
"The DeParle Portfolio" explore the Obama administration's health czar's moneyed connections with the health care industry.
Tags: DeParle; Obama; health care; health czar; special interests; ties; revolving door;
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All Mine
"All Mine" details how the U.S. government facilitated a modern-day land grab by a politically connected American company in one of the world's poorest countries. Phoenix-based mining company Freeport McMoRan was able to purchase the world's largest copper mine from the the government of Congo at an extremely cheap rate because it made its play under the cloud of the world's deadliest conflict site since World War II, a climate of corruption and desperation. It did so with the help of $400 million in U.S. government financing, and intense lobbying from an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Congo -- a career diplomat who rushed through the revolving door to work for the mining company just weeks after the deal was finalized. Freeport McMoRan has a generously paid spokesman, not to mention millions in lobbying dollars, to get its story out. The report also includes interviews with Congolese people who were forced from their land and threatened with arrest for speaking with reporters.
Tags: copper; Congo; Freeport McMoRan; embassy; diplomat; mining
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From senate job to nuclear lobbyist-- twice
"This story traced how Alex Flint, a protégé of unabashed nuclear industry booster Senator Pete Domenici, parlayed his post as clerk of Domenici's powerful appropriations subcommittee into a lucrative lobbying job for the nuclear power industry. When Domenici ascended to the chairmanship of the Senate's Energy Committee, he lured Flint back at about one-third his lobbyist's salary to spend three years pushing the Energy Policy Act of 2005 through Congress." Afterwards, Flint was "rewarded with the nuclear industry's top lobbying job."
Tags: nuclear energy; lobbying; congress; Energy Policy Act of 2005; Senate Energy Committee; revolving door
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Statehouse Revolvers
The Center for Public Inegrity's investigation found that in 2003, 2004 and 2005, "nearly 1,600 former lawmakers were registered as lobbyists at some point." Inevitably, these were often the most well-connected lobbyists.Supplemental material includes local reactions from across the country.
Tags: lobbyists; lawmakers; lawmakers turned lobbyists; politics; revolving door
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Revolving door for fired workers
This series investigates private contractors in Florida who hire counselors fired from similar jobs for inappropriate behavior. The reporters found that the these counselors had a history of abusing juveniles they were hired to protect. Using public records laws, the reporters collected information on the staff members working with each of the 40 private contractors. The juvenile justice agency is presently investigating the problems that were exposed.
Tags: FOIA; private contractors in Florida; private contractors for juvenile homes; juvenile justice; public records laws in Florida; juvenile justice in Florida
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A Child Removed
In this extensive three-day series, Jeff Lehr of the Joplin Globe examined the Missouri Division of Family Services, and found a system riddled with problems -- from mothers fighting to get their children back after baseless accusations to children being removed from their parents only to be placed in dangerous and abusive foster care where they were injured or killed. The Globe found that Jasper County had one of the highest rates of removal of children from their homes by the state than any other county in Missouri, while at the same time it was more difficult for parents to reunite with their children. Innocent parents caught in the gears of DFS could spend years trying to clear their names and regain custody of their children. The series takes a hard look at DFS, the courts, and those who are supposedly responsible for removing children from the home. Statistics and tables, as well as the personal stories of people affected, potential reforms to Missouri's laws, and the problem of a "revolving door" of underpaid, under-trained social workers are discussed in detail.
Tags: DFS; division of family services; family court; children; foster care; social work; social workers; death; parents; law
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Suffer the Children
Washington Monthly reports on "how government fails its most vulnerable citizens - abused and neglected kids." The story reports on children's deaths from abuse and neglect in New York, and finds that "many children faced a revolving door of foster care, one that was virtually spinning in some cases. A New York boy went through 37 different homes in two months; another lived with 17 families in 25 days."
Tags: social services; Title XX; Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act; child welfare
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The Rule 11 Revolving Door
A loophole has allowed the mentally incompent to commit crime after cime without being punished or placed under supervision.
Tags: crime; mentally incompetent; Rule 11
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Standing Guard at the Revolving Door
Village Voice profiles Mike Taylor, a parole officer in Manhattan, and the people he meets with every day. The article provides insight into life as a parolee and illustrates how an ex-convict's actions affect his/her new life out of prison. In addition, reporter Jennifer Gonnnerman depicts the feelings of Taylor as he ultimately must send one of his clients back to prison.
Tags: police; parol officer; crime; prison