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BREAKING
NEWS
Monday, August 29, 2016
Investigation into
contractor friend of Malloy widens - Connecticut Post
Neil Vigdor neil.vigdor@scni.com; 203-625-4436; http://twitter.com/gettinviggy
Staff writer Daniel Tepfer contributed to this report.
An FBI investigation into a construction manager who is
close with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is widening and now extends from Stamford
to Trumbull.
Both municipalities find themselves involved with the Justice Department in
connection to Al Barbarotta, the head
of Bridgeport-based AFB Construction. Continue reading at http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/FBI-subpoenas-trove-of-records-for-contractor-9191623.php
Inside the political
fundraising game - Connecticut Post
By Ken Dixon, Angela Carella and Neil Vigdor
August 28, 2016
A dozen contractors
barred from contributing to state political candidates gave almost $1 million
to the Democratic Governors
Association, which in turn funneled
$3.9 million to a PAC supporting Gov. Dannel P. Malloys 2014 re-election campaign, a Hearst Connecticut
Media analysis has
found. Continue reading at http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Inside-the-political-fundraising-game-9186979.php
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August 30, 2016
From:
The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone: 860-841-8032
BREAKING NEWS FROM
CTMIRROR.ORG
CT Supreme Court
rules in FOI case involving Ritter, CRRA
By: MARK PAZNIOKAS | August
29, 2016
The
opinion
A unanimous ruling Monday by
the Connecticut Supreme Court in a case involving a prominent lawyer-lobbyist,
former House Speaker Thomas D. Ritter, seems to narrow the circumstances when a
lawyers business or political advice is protected by lawyer-client
privilege. Continue Reading →
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BREAKING NEWS from the
NEW YORK TIMES
Huma Abedin, a top
adviser to Hillary Clinton, is separating from Anthony Weiner amid a renewed
scandal over lewd texting
Monday, August 29, 2016
On Monday, Huma Abedin, the wife of the former Representative Anthony D.
Weiner, announced that the couple were separating in
the wake of a report that Mr. Weiner had been involved in another texting
scandal.
Mr. Weiner, who resigned in 2011 after it
was revealed he had been sending lewd messages and photos to random women
online, apparently deleted his Twitter account on Monday after The New York
Post reported that he had exchanged sexual messages with an unidentified woman
last year. Read
more
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Dan Haar: Why Hartford Is Headed For Bankruptcy
Hartford
Courant, August 29, 2016
Will the city of Hartford file for bankruptcy protection? That
question is on a lot of minds these days, from city hall to the state Capitol
to the offices of firms that handle the citys bond
debt. For now, it remains only a whisper. READ
MORE
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Shocking Government Report Finds $6.5 Trillion in Taxpayer Funds
'Unaccounted For' (Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge)
by
Tyler Durden
Aug 20, 2016 Twitter
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Last week, we first touched on a topic
which, in any non-banana republic, would be a far greater scandal than what
Ryan Lochte may or may not have been doing in a Rio
bathroom: namely, government corruption, falsification and potential fraud and
embezzlement, which has resulted in the Pentagon being unable to account
for up to $8.5 trillion in taxpayer funding.
Today, Reuters
follows up on this disturbing issue, and reveals that the Armys finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper
accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Departments Inspector
General, in a June report, said the
Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one
quarter alone in 2015, and $6.5 trillion for the year. Yet the Army lacked receipts and invoices
to support those numbers or simply made them up. Continue reading at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-19/government-report-finds-65-trillion-taxpayer-funds-unaccounted
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The Killing Streets of
Chicago, yesterday, took the life of a young mother walking her baby in a
stroller as
reported by Reuters in their article captioned Two Chicago brothers
on parole charged in murder of NBA stars cousin
noting the following CHICAGO POLICE ON SUNDAY said they have arrested two
brothers and charged them with the fatal shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wades cousin as she pushed a baby in a stroller, a
murder that has stunned a city plagued by a surge
in gang-related violence. In a case that has emerged as a talking
point in the U.S. presidential race, Darwin Sorrells
Jr., 26, and Derren Sorrells,
22, are facing charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the death
of Nykea Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of four,
police said.
Floridas
Department of Corrections lends some insight into the formation of Chicago street
gangs which years ago had sought and received and we quote: $1.4 million in
federal anti-poverty funds. These funds were then used to support the groups illegal activities. A federal grand jury uncovered
the funds mismanagement and Jeff Fort was sent to federal prison.
Continue reading at http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/chicago.html
In April, 2016, USAToday
reported , April, 2016 Chicago murder rate
soars 72% in 2016; shootings up more than 88%.
In May, 2016 the New York Times reported Chicago Murder
Problem - The New York Times noting and we quote: In Chicago, homicide rates correspond with
segregation. While many areas
have few or no killings, the South and West Sides are
on par with the world most dangerous countries, like Brazil
and Venezuela,
and have been for many years.
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Jon Lender Hartford Courant Reports
DCP Public-Affairs
Chief Takes State-Approved Leave To Work For Clinton
In Ohio
News surfaced in February that Gov. Dannel P. Malloys administration
had begun replacing some veteran communications officers at state agencies with
politically active Democrats after the Democrat-controlled General Assembly
quietly removed those posts from the state merit system
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Watchdogs warn of
serious conflicts of interest for Clinton Foundation
By Mike Lillis Thehill.com
August 26, 2016
"The Clinton Foundation has posed a very serious
conflict of interest for the entire time that it existed," Craig Holman,
government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen, said Thursday. "The
conflicts of interest are very real, and that gives Trump some ammunition to
throw at it, and we are going to hear about it [until the campaign ends]."
Holman said Clintons recent vow to bar all foreign and
corporate donations to the Clinton
Foundation if she wins the presidency is "a big, big step in the right
direction." But, he quickly added, that alone is not enough to eliminate
the "pay to play" perceptions now dogging the Clinton campaign
following revelations that top State Department aides acted on the foundations
behalf when Clinton headed the agency.
Read
the full story here
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Judge orders State to
begin releasing Clinton emails next month
Aug 26, 2016, Thehill.com
Read
the full story here
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The Fiscal Times Reports
Two Big Reasons
Prescription Drug Prices Are So Much Higher in the US
By Eric
Pianin August 25, 2016 Powered by Newsmax.
It is no secret that Americans have long
spent far more on prescription drugs, on average, than consumers in most other
industrialized countries.
Per capita prescription drug spending in
the United States,
particularly for costly brand names, was $858 in 2013, compared with an average
of just $400 for 19 other industrialized nations, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD). Read
more...
Related:Ignoring Warnings, Drug Companies Hike Prices By 10 Percent
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CRIME
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EpiPen lobbying campaign targeted Connecticut
CTMirror.org
By: ANA RADELAT | August 29, 2016
WASHINGTON Connecticut, one of 11 states
that approved a law requiring schools to stock EpiPens,
is on drug maker Mylan sizable lobbying list.
According to the center, Mylan, under fire for its
steep price hikes of the EpiPen, expanded its
lobbying presence in state houses to Connecticut
and 35 additional states between 2010 to 2014. Continue Reading