This , as they say, is one for the books. By JAMES WALSH Minneapolis Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS — The strange saga of Robert Beale didn’t exactly end last month with his 11-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion. Another chapter concluded Monday when Beale and two other tax protesters were found guilty of conspiracy to…
Is the Bush administration falling short in probing the financial mess? Some say yes. By Paul Shukovsky and Daniel Lathrop Seattle P-I Reporters The Bush administration is rejecting FBI pleas for more agents to investigate crimes that helped trigger the global financial meltdown, bureau sources said this week. “They are bogged down big-time or there…
Homeland Security Could Have Thrown out $40 million in Illinois. Dave Savini CHICAGO (CBS) – It’s called Project Shield and will cost you more than $40 million when it’s done, leaving U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for a countywide high-tech surveillance program. So why is the homeland security project busted? Police sources told CBS 2’s…
