Think ACORN is just going away? Not in your lifetime. Big Journalism's Warner Huston did a little research on ACORN's false-front organizations and shell corporations in Louisiana. (via Big Journalism)
CHANGING TUNES
At Bishop Hill blog, global warming dissident A.W. Montford, author of The Hockey Stick Illusion, keeps track of the changing times. As when the earth-is-doomed former Director of the British Antarctic Survey has a change of
TRUST US, WE'RE YOUR GOVERNMENT
About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine - a vaccine that is contaminated with material from a pig virus. The FDA has told doctors to suspend using it. GlaxoSmithKline is based in Switzerland and they, too, suspended use.
The 24/7 blog at the Wall Street Journal calls the company The Unluckiest Pharma Company in the World for the string of recalls.
Governments around the globe invested billions in Swine Flu vaccines that were never used. Previous post at Morning Brief on the topic. here here
CHRYSLER WHISTLEBLOWER
Daimler will in a U.S. federal court in Washington on charges it spent hundreds of millions of dollars on payoffs to officials in 22 countries between 1998 and 2008. Auditor David Bazzetta blew the whistle on them nine years ago. Today they agreed to pay a $185 million fine. The company's German and Russian subsidiaries will plead guilty to criminal charges, according to the Guardian. The deal will avoid disclosure of alleged bribes the company paid in 22 countries including to Iraq in the Food for Oil program.
After filing a whistleblower complaint in 2004, Bazzetta was fired. Daimler sold its Chrysler business to private equity firm Cerberus Capital in 2007. Siemens (SIEGn.DE) agreed in December to pay $1.3 billion to end corruption probes in the United States and Germany.
FUGITIVE FOR 38 YEARS
A fugitive was caught 38 years later after the victim's grandson hired a private investigator who used scores of documents the family dug up from old parole records.Frank Dryman, now 78, shot the victim 7 times in the back and stole his car when the man stopped to give him a lift in a blizzard. He was sentenced to death in 1955 and was paroled in 1969 after 15 years in prison when the Montana Supreme Court shot down capital punishment. He skipped out on his parole three years later. Dryman was found running a wedding chapel in Arizona. He is being to Montana.
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