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News Watchdog highlights corruption in international health care
Watchdog highlights corruption in international health care
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 08:48:00 pm

Transparency International , an international corruption watchdog group, said Wednesday in its 2006 Global Corruption Report that malfeasance in both private and public sector health care systems around the world was rampant and...

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News Ex-Enron exec says Lay, Skilling knew earnings claims exaggerated
Ex-Enron exec says Lay, Skilling knew earnings claims exaggerated
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 08:12:00 pm

Mark Koenig, former executive VP of investor relations at Enron , testified in the early stages of the prosecution case Wednesday that founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , both...

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News Alito casts first Supreme Court vote in refusal to allow Missouri execution
Alito casts first Supreme Court vote in refusal to allow Missouri execution
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 07:45:00 pm

New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cast his first vote on the country's highest court on Wednesday in a decision to deny a request to vacate the stay of execution for...

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News Second Gomery report recommends limiting Canada PM’s power after scandal
Second Gomery report recommends limiting Canada PM’s power after scandal
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 06:56:00 pm

Quebec Justice John Gomery Wednesday released the second report of his judicial commission of inquiry into the Canadian sponsorships and advertising program scandal that developed during the term of former Liberal Party...

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News West Virginia governor signs mine safety law
West Virginia governor signs mine safety law
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 02:55:00 pm

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin signed a mine safety bill Thursday S. 247 requiring mines to provide wireless emergency communicators, tracking devices and extra air supplies to their miners. The West Virginia Legislature [official...

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News Saddam to sue Bush, Blair over alleged ‘war crimes’
Saddam to sue Bush, Blair over alleged ‘war crimes’
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 01:52:00 pm

Khalil Dulaimi, chief defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Thursday following up on earlier defense statements that the ousted Iraqi leader intends "very soon" to sue US President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense...

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News Three indicted for ecoterrorism in California
Three indicted for ecoterrorism in California
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 01:30:00 pm

US Attorney McGregor Scott of the Eastern District of California has announced the indictments of three people for ecoterrorism on federal charges of conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage property. The three defendants,...

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News EU probe of CIA prisons may ask Cheney, Rumsfeld to testify
EU probe of CIA prisons may ask Cheney, Rumsfeld to testify
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 01:19:00 pm

The European Parliament , which has launched an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland, said...

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News Pinochet daughter requests US political asylum
Pinochet daughter requests US political asylum
James M Yoch Jr
January 25, 2006 09:18:00 pm

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , requested political asylum in the US Wednesday after being detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC. US Ambassador to Chile...

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‘Iraqi agent’ convicted on six counts
James M Yoch Jr
January 25, 2006 08:59:00 pm

Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, was convicted Wednesday on six of seven criminal counts , including acting as an...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Carter authorizes Chrysler bailout

On January 7, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-185) into law. The act granted to Chrysler $1.5 billion to save the company from bankruptcy. Twenty-eight years later in 2008, President George W. Bush authorized $17.4 billion to again bailout Chrysler in addition to the other two major American automobile manufacturers, Ford and General Motors.

Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified

On January 7, 1922, Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Signed on December 6 of the preceding year, the treaty ended the Irish War of Independence against Great Britain. The British Parliament voted to approve the treaty on December 16, 1921. Ratification was completed on January 14, 1922, when the House of Commons of Southern Ireland became the third and final party to approve the document. The Anglo-Irish treaty effectively split the island into its current state. While the lower counties of Ireland were granted autonomy under the treaty, Britain insisted that the six Protestant counties of Northern Ireland be allowed to determine their own future. On the day after the treaty was signed, these counties elected to remain part of Great Britain. Today, they remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

New York State Assembly expels five socialist assemblymen

The New York State Assembly, the state's lower house, expelled five duly elected assemblymen from the Socialist Party over their political affiliation on January 7, 1920. The US was in the midst of the first Red Scare, a panic resulting from the ascendancy of the Bolsheviks in Russia, which resulted in the repression of socialists across the country. The result of the expulsion vote was 140-6. Thus, Assemblymen August Claessens, Samuel A. DeWitt, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon and Louis Waldman were removed from their posts. Learn more about the expulsions from the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York.

Rehnquist sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

On January 7, 1972, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read a short profile of Chief Justice Rehnquist here.

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