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Search results for "Deborah Cook" ...
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Money Trails to the Federal Branch
At least two dozen of the 249 federal judges appointed in 2001 by George W. Bush have given money to Republicans while the judges were under consideration for a lifetime appointment on the bench. More than $44,000 was given by the 18 district court judges and the six appellate judges.
Tags: American Bar Association; campaign contribution; Deborah Cook; Bob Taft; John R. Adams; Tomas M. Hardiman; John E. Jones; George W. Bush; Republicans
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Uncooking the books. How three unlikely sleuths discovered fraud at WorldCom
A series of obscure tips last spring had led Ms. Cooper and Mr. Morse to suspect that their employer was cooking its books. Often working late at night to avoid detection by their bosses, they combed through hundreds of thousands of accounting entries, crashing the company's computers in the process.
Tags: WorldCom; fraud; accounting fraud; financial scandal; Justice Department; Andersen; bankruptcy; stock market
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Animal Smugglers
MSNBC, in a joined effort with BBC, details the work of Operation Chameleon designed to catch animal traffickers and smugglers internationally. The report looks at the illegal network of Anson Wong from Malaysia, leader of the biggest ever known animal dealing and smuggling operation. Wong is currently awaiting sentencing in a Californian prison. The production also tells the story of Paul Sullivan who "has broken laws to protect reptiles from being poached and traded to extinction." The most stunning warning is that the multi-billion-dollar illegal trade of precious reptiles around the world has brought more than 71 species on the verge of extinction, and that "we are into the greatest extinction of historical times."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; ploughshare tortoise; Chinese alligators; Madagascar; environment; Komodo dragons; wildlife; crime; customs; hunting; business; trade
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MSNBC Investigates: Runaways
MSNBC investigates the homeless youth problem in Portland. Portland is a haven for runaways, partly because of the availability of cheap heroin. Portland also has need exchange programs and other city programs to help runaways, many of whom are addicts. MSNBC spent three weeks on the streets following several runaways.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; runaways; heroin; needle exchange program; homelessness; youth; Portland
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"Scary record: food handling at Dome"
When Adrienne Haynes and a friend worked their first night cooking hot dogs at a Kingdome concession stand, they witnessing some sickening procedures: a plastic shovel used alternately as a dustpan and an ice scoop for soft drinks; hot dog buns picked free of mold, then served; a man with dirt-encrusted hands filling popcorn boxes next to a woman sneezing and coughing over food. Haynes and her friend quit that day, then promptly reported the company to the health department. But to the Seattle-King County Health Department officials, it was just another complaint to add to a long list of chronic city-health-code vilations at dozens of Kingdome concession stands.