Balli Aviation Ltd., a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Balli Group PLC, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a two-count criminal information in connection with its illegal export of commercial Boeing 747 aircraft from the United States to Iran
Jack Barouh of Golden Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Sentencing has been set for April 16, 2010, before U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami. The defendant remains free on a $1 million bail pending sentencing. He faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison. According to court documents and statements made in court, Barouh admitted to filing a false tax return for 2007 in which he failed to report that he had an interest in or a signature authority over financial accounts at UBS AG, one of Switzerland’s largest banks.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped his chief legal adviser and a four-star Army general to lead a landmark study on how the U.S. military would lift its ban on openly gay service members.
This is a raw pool report prepared by Kendra Marr of Politico following Monday’s YouTube interview with President Barack Obama:
Citizens submitted questions during and after Obama’s the State of the Union. People cast more than 640,000 votes for 11,000 questions from around the world, and YouTube selected a few dozen of the highest rated questions [...]
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Chilcot Inquiry that he has no regrets over sending British troops to war in Iraq.
At the House Republican conference meeting Friday in Baltimore, President Obama is asked by freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) about opening health care negotiations to television cameras. President Obama describes a “messy process” and says he takes “responsibility.”
Newsmakers weigh in on the latest political issues.
A report giving the context that led Tony Blair to give evidence at the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. .
I’ve been working on this new project for several weeks, something that has excited the very few who knew about it enough to participate in the pilot webisode. It’s a little like video Twitter, only more in-depth. All future contributors should offer up a blunt assessment/opinion/statement/irreverent quips/report on whatever you choose. You can break news, you can opine, be funny, even do a tiny song parody, whatever makes your point.
Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against Thursday’s Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to support a constitutional amendment.
Here’s a news release announcing the effort:
A coalition of public interest organizations strongly condemned today’s ruling by the US Supreme Court allowing [...]
