Corruption

Much of ALEC's agenda for this week's meeting is returning to the organization's focus on promoting the extraction, production and exportation of fossil fuels.

The savage methods of alleged “economic efficiency” and privatization increase neither efficiency nor competition, but do lead to price increases for consumers, higher costs for government, corruption, embezzlement and …

Howard Glaser was brought on to help then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on his mortgage industry investigation. Glaser was working for the industry at the same time.

A Brooklyn man who spent more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he likely did not commit will receive $3 million from New York State. He …

Let's not kid ourselves - when politicians are treated to $10,000+ getaways, someone is expecting something in return.

Chief Justice John Roberts has changed campaign finance law entirely, laying the groundwork for the complete annihilation of all efforts to limit money in politics.

The unfettered role of money in politics ensures that officials pass laws that benefit corporate, not public interests.

In which the remarkable lack of criminal prosecutions coming from the Justice Department in the aftermath of the financial crisis is explained, also the heightened danger to finance insider …

Flaws in bond rating system that led to financial collapse remain.

Citizens plan to occupy California's Capitol if their demands to get money out of politics are not met by June 22.