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STATS ON CORPORATE CRIME

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Health care, $100 billion, estimate from Government Accounting Office.
Trade violations $250 billion annually, Prof. Francis Cullen, U. of Cincinnati, Criminal Justice Dept.
Burglary, larceny, motor vehicle, & arson, under $18 billion, FBI for 2002.
66,971 job-related injury and occupational disease deaths (doesn’t include deaths of non-employees due to pollution, tainted foods, and like), 1992, Professor J.
Paul Leigh.
Enron Corporation fraud and bankruptcy cost investors, pensioners, and employees $60 billion.

Pasted from http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/ashcroft-letter.php. Citizen Works reports on corporate greed and government inaction/action. They produce a
biweekly newsletter.

A LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT ON CORPORATE CRIME DATA


November 6, 2003
Mr. John Ashcroft
United States Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear Mr. Ashcroft:
Recently, your Federal Bureau of Investigations released its annual "Crime in the United States" report, which
pulls together comprehensive data on eight crime indexes: murder and manslaughter; forcible rape; robbery;
aggravated assault; burglary; larceny-theft; motor vehicle theft; and arson. The report is obviously useful in
empowering law enforcement professionals and the public; it helps them to better understand and respond to
criminal trends.
Conspicuously absent from this report, however, is an assessment of corporate crime. The report contains no

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statistics on the accounting, securities, and financial services crimes that have rocked the economy in the last
two years. It does not list details on the litany of food safety violations, product safety violations, workplace
safety violations, environmental pollution and countless other crimes that kill, injure and sicken millions of
Americans each year.
Certainly, as attorney general of the United States, you should understand the problem of corporate crime. After
all, in a September 27, 2002 address to the Corporate Fraud/Responsibility Conference, you said that "the
malignancy of corporate corruption threatens more than the future of a few companies -- it destroys workers'
incomes, decimates families' savings and casts a shadow on the health, integrity and good name of business
itself." You warned that "We cannot -- we will not -- surrender freedom for all to the tyranny of greed for the
few." You told prosecutors that "with each act of justice, you send the unmistakable message that no board
room is beyond the law, no executive is above the law."
Yet, because the FBI does not collect data on corporate crime, both the American public and the law enforcement
community lack good information on what has become a pressing national problem - a corporate crime wave.
Comprehensive data on corporate crime would help law enforcement officials to better analyze patterns and
better direct resources. Information is also a powerful tool for public support of strong law enforcement, and the
lack of it hampers your efforts to stay true to your tough words on corporate crime.
Corporate crime, as you surely recognize, is no small problem. Where the costs have been estimated, the
numbers are staggering. Most credible estimates confirm that, in the aggregate, white-collar and corporate
crimes cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars annually - far more than conventional categories of crime
such as burglary and robbery - and cause many preventable deaths, injuries, and disease.
Using conservative numbers issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for instance, criminologist Jeffrey
Reiman, a professor at American University, estimated that the total cost of white-collar crime in 1997 was $338
billion. The actual cost is probably much greater. For instance, the General Accounting Office, the investigative
arm of Congress, estimates that health-care fraud alone costs up to $100 billion each year. Another estimate (by
University of Cincinnati Criminal Justice Professor Francis T. Cullen) suggests that the annual cost of antitrust or
trade violations is at least $250 billion. By comparison, the FBI estimated that in 2002, the nation's total loss
from robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson was less than $18 billion - less than a third
of the estimated $60 billion Enron alone cost investors, pensioners and employees.
But corporate crime isn't just about the money. It's also about people's lives. The national murder rate has
hovered around 16,000 per year in recent years (In 2002, the FBI reported 16,204 murders). But statistics from
a respected group of occupational health and safety investigators, led by Professor J. Paul Leigh, have estimated
that in 1992 alone there were 66,971 total job-related injury and occupational disease deaths. These numbers
do not include the thousands of annual deaths caused by cancers linked to corporate pollution, deaths from
defective products, tainted foods, and other corporate-related causes. Though we can begin to estimate, it is
hard to know how many deaths are caused by corporate crime, since again, we have no official numbers or
annual reports.
There is now a growing consensus that corporate crime is a mammoth problem threatening the stability of our
economy and the security of millions of Americans. But how mammoth exactly? This is what millions of
Americans would like to know through official and authoritative sources from a government that should be acting
to diminish such public dangers, not ignore them.
Mr. Ashcroft, if you are indeed serious about enforcing the rule of law fairly and justly in this country, we urge
you to direct the FBI to expand its annual "Crime in the United States Report" to actually describe all the crime
in the United States, not just street-level criminal activity. Corporate crime is a huge problem, with far more
impact on society than street crime. The major media has recognized this point more and more in the past three
years in headlines and cover stories and editorials. And with the help of more comprehensive data, we could
gain an even better understanding of the problem, which is essential to solving it.
We expect you to take this matter seriously and look forward to your timely response.
Sincerely,
Ralph Nader
Founder, Citizen Works
Lee Drutman
Communications Director,Citizen Works

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#211 Section on stolen elections

Dishonorable Mention

Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is a United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party. He served as Senate Majority

Leader from 1996 to June 6, 2001, interrupted only by a brief period in January 2001, during which he held the position of Senate Minority Leader. After Sen. Jim

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Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent in June 2001, giving the Democrats control of the Senate, Lott served as Minority Leader

until his resignation from that position in December 2002 due to controversial remarks. The remark in praise of Senator Strom Thurmond, an open racist,

highlighted Lott’s own racist voting record. From 1981 to 1989 he was also a House Minority Whip. As Majority Leader he played a prominate role in the

impeachment trial of Bill Clinton.

David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961) is an American Republican politician, currently serving as the junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana. He is known for his

opposition to same-sex marriage and his support of abstenance sex education. . Vitter won a special election to Louisiana's 1st Congressional District in 1999,

succeeding Republican Congressman Bob Livingston, who resigned after an adultery scandal. Vitter in July of 2007 was identified as a client of "D.C. Madam"

Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service in Washington, D.C. Vitter appeared with his wife on television following this revelation. She stated that she forgave him.

New inductees into the Ethics Hall of Shame:

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W-Va)

Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Ca)

Updated June of 08

http://www.cleanupwashington.org/hos/ is a site dedicated to the corruption and malfeasance of our

congressional leaders.

Listed there with details are Tom DeLay, Randal Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Richard Pombo, Conrad Burns, William Jefferson, and Jack Abramoff.

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http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/religion/spurious.htm, about various bible sources, their lack of agreement

http://nofreelunch.org/reqreading.htm about drug companies influencing medical decisions.

Senator Ted Stevens (born November 18, 1923) who has served since 1968 was convicted on 7 counts contected to handling of public

funds.

From wikipedia.org:

On July 29, 2008 Stevens was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of failing to properly report gifts and found guilty at trial three months later

(October 27, 2008). The charges relate to renovations to his home and alleged gifts from VECO Corporation, claimed to be worth more than $250,000. The

indictment followed a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption into

Alaskan politicians and was based on his relationship with Bill Allen. Allen, then an oil service company executive, had earlier pled guilty, with sentencing

suspended pending his cooperation in gathering evidence and giving testimony in other trials, to bribing several Alaskan state legislators, including a disputed claim

about Stevens' son, former State Senator Ben Stevens. Stevens declared, "I'm innocent," and pled not guilty to the charges in a federal district court on July 31,

2008. Stevens asserted his right to a speedy trial so that he could have the opportunity to promptly clear his name and requested that the trial be held before the

2008 election.

Home Remodeling and VECO


May 29, 2007, the Anchorage Daily News reported that the FBI and a federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling project at Stevens' home in

Girdwood. Stevens' Alaska home was raided by the FBI and IRS on July 30, 2007. The remodeling work doubled the size of the modest home. Public records

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show that the house was 2,471 square feet (230 m 2 ) after the remodeling and that the property was valued at $271,300 in 2003, including a $5,000 increase in land

value. The remodel in 2000 was organized by Bill Allen, a founder of the VECO Corporation, an oil-field service company and has been estimated to have cost

VECO and the various contractors $250,000 or more. However, the residential contractor who finished the renovation for VECO, Augie Paone, "believes the

[Stevens'] remodeling could have cost ― if all the work was done efficiently ― around $130,000 to $150,000, close to the figure Stevens cited last year.” In June,

the Anchorage Daily News reported that a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence in May about the expansion of Stevens' Girdwood home and

other matters connecting Stevens to VECO. In mid-June, FBI agents questioned several aides who work for Stevens as part of the investigation. [64] In July,

Washingtonian magazine reported that Stevens had hired "Washington’s most powerful and expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr., in response to the

investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversations with Bill Allen, Stevens expressed worries over potential misunderstandings and legal complications arising

from the sweeping federal investigations into Alaskan politics. On the witness stand, "Allen testified that VECO staff who had worked on his own house had

charged 'way too much,' leaving him uncertain how much to invoice Stevens for when he had his staff work on the senator's house ... that he would be embarrassed

to bill Stevens for overpriced labor on the house, and said he concealed some of the expense."

Bob Penney

In September, The Hill reported that Stevens had "steered millions of federal dollars to a sportfishing industry group founded by Bob Penney, a longtime friend".

In 1998, Stevens invested 15,000 in a Utah land deal managed by Penney; in 2004, Stevens sold his share of the property for $150,000.

Guilty verdict

On October 27, 2008, Stevens was found guilty of all seven charges against him. He is the fifth sitting senator ever to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history, and

the first since Senator Harrison A William. (D-NJ) in 1981. His sentingcing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 25. However, FBI Agent Chad in February 2009 filed a

whistleblower affidavit concerning gross government misconduct (FBI sending back to Alaska a witness who would have undercut their case and other exculpatory

materials were withheld), This was addressed in a hearing on Feb. 13. At the hearing the Judge Sullivan held the prosecutors in contempt for failing to deliver

documents to Steven's legal counsel.

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If there lips are moving they are lying (said of politician)

To understand developments in our political system (both parties) one must understand the role
of neoliberalism. Any analysis which misses this connection is grossly inadequate. (Neocons
follow neoliberalism economic policies).

We have an evil, evil system. Words such as imperialism, greed, corporate greed,
neoliberalism, neoconservate, globalism, bought politicians, control of media are descriptive.
There are reasons why the labor movement has collapsed. It is the politics of neoliberalism,
an out growth of corporate greed. Given how it opposes the public weal, we have devoted a
section to expose just what neoliberalism is—a thing that the five corporations which own
broadcasting will not do.

THE BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE


Things have gotten worse, the hole the neocons has dug is much deeper. The economic stats
are worse than bad: the trend is toward greater disparity of wealth and on top of that the U.S.
is loaded with debt and imbalance of trade. The debt can through fiscal austerity can be paid off
(as some of it was under Clinton), but the trade imbalance will only grow due to the dismantling
of are industrial base and the setting up of free trade agreements such as NAFTA. The current
foreign debt is equaled to over 70% of GDP, a ratio unmatched by far among industrialized
nations. To find out what economics is called the dismal science and the role of neoliberalism.

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