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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] The Cocaine Queen of Honduras Was Just Extradited to the US
Read: 28/7/2022 www.vice.com
Honduras just put one of its most notorious suspected drug bosses on a plane to the United States. Herlinda Bobadilla, alias “La Chinda,” is the 62-year-old alleged matriarch of the Montes drug cartel.
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[Link] Cops Covered Up Sex Trafficking Ring to Receive Free Sex Acts, Lawsuit Says
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
Top cops for a local department in Virginia actively hindered a sex trafficking investigation for almost four years in exchange for free sex acts from the victimized women, according to a recently updated federal lawsuit.
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[Link] Drake withdraws his two 2022 Grammy nominations
Read: 8/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Drake has decided to withdraw his two Grammy nominations.
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[Link] The First Female President of Honduras Just Vowed to End Narco Corruption
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
After one of the most dramatic elections in Honduran history, Xiomara Castro has declared herself the winner, making her the first female president in the country's history. Then she made her first promise: to end the narco-corruption that plagued the reign of her predecessor.
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[Link] Alleged mini meth lab and firearms discovered in PNG hotel, but Australian manager won't face drug charges
Read: 25/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Papua New Guinea police say outdated drug laws have left them unable to lay drug charges against the Australian manager of a Port Moresby hotel where an alleged clandestine meth lab and illegal firearms were discovered.
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[Link] ABC chair Ita Buttrose accuses Coalition of ‘political interference’ and ‘intimidation’
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The ABC chair, Ita Buttrose, has accused the Morrison government of political interference and attempting to intimidate the public broadcaster after the Senate established an inquiry into the ABC’s complaints handling process.
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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.
Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
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[Link] Government blocks bid to investigate Christian Porter over legal fee donation
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Coalition has blocked a bid to have former attorney-general Christian Porter investigated over his financial disclosures, despite the Speaker of the House having argued there was a case for further scrutiny.
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[Link] Icac documents: Mike Baird staffer questioned why Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.5m in ‘safe seat’ of Wagga Wagga
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
One of former New South Wales premier Mike Baird’s top staff members questioned why then-treasurer Gladys Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.
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[Link] ‘It needs more work’: Liberal MPs call for tougher federal integrity commission
Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A growing number of Liberal MPs are pushing for the government to toughen up its proposed federal integrity commission, amid criticism from the crossbench and experts that the draft bill is too weak.
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[Link] Latin American democracy is in poor but surprisingly stable health
Read: 14/10/2021 www.economist.com
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[Link] 'My husband would still be alive': Widow of SA Police officer claims ICAC delays contributed to husband's suicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The wife of a senior South Australian police officer who took his own life during an investigation by the state's anti-corruption watchdog has criticised the organisation and its processes. Doug Barr spent 43 years in the force and was involved with the investigation into the Salt Creek kidnapping.
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[Link] Queensland police superintendent 'disappointed' by allegations officer snuck daughter over NSW border
Read: 22/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
An internal investigation has since begun into the incident and the officer has been stood down from official duties in the road policing unit in the Brisbane suburb of Boondall. The man's 20-year-old daughter was issued with a $4,135 fine last Wednesday and has been placed in hotel quarantine.
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[Link] The Unexpected Places the Taliban Got Rich From Before Taking Over Afghanistan
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The extremist group made a staggering $1.6 billion last year, a key factor that helped them gain control of Afghanistan at lightning speed. On the streets of Kabul after the Taliban takeover, Afghans were running from one empty ATM to the next. Prices soared, the U.S. froze $9.
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[Link] Woman stands trial accused of deceiving company of millions of dollars to benefit customer — but prosecutors 'can't say' why
Read: 22/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide Court has heard prosecutors don't know why a former Adelaide Brighton Cement manager allegedly deceived her company of millions of dollars to benefit one of its biggest customers.
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[Link] Pressure on Queensland police to sack officer who leaked address of domestic violence victim
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Queensland police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, is “carefully considering” whether to take further disciplinary action against an officer who leaked the address of a domestic violence victim.
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[Link] Crown royal commission hears chief financial officer knew of money laundering 'red flag' but can't remember response
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The man in charge of the finances of Crown's two Australian casinos was warned of multiple suspicious transactions which could indicate money laundering — but can not remember taking any action.
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[Link] High level Victorian police under investigation by corruption watchdog
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog is investigating alleged cover-ups, nepotism and internal information leaks involving high ranking police in a probe that is likely to rock force command, policing sources say.
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[Link] IRS must turn over Trump tax returns to Congress, DoJ says
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US Department of Justice on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, saying the panel had invoked “sufficient reasons” for requesting them.
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[Link] Taxpayer-funded aged care homes funnelled tens of millions into church coffers, ABC investigation finds
Read: 18/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
The homes include St Basil's in Melbourne, where 45 residents died in Australia's deadliest COVID outbreak. In the past eight years, St Basil's paid more than $22 million in rent and fees to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese while receiving federal government funding.
[Link] Dog care, hair appointments and restaurant reservations: The odd jobs of State Dept. aides under Mike Pompeo.
Read: 18/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
By and Last year, when he was still secretary of state, Mike Pompeo dismissed accusations that he or his wife, Susan, had asked State Department staff to walk his dog or perform other personal tasks as “patently false” and “crazy stuff.
[Link] Barnaby Joyce says purchase of shares for son in company he quizzed at public inquiry ‘was reasonable’
Read: 11/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce has said the purchase of shares in a space company for his young son, just weeks after the MP had quizzed the firm over its ownership structure in his capacity as chair of a federal parliamentary inquiry, was a “reasonable thing”.
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