Category: Ethics
Craiglist Adult Section Should Be Shut Down, State Attys Gen Demand
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today, joined by 16 other state attorneys general, is calling on craigslist to immediately remove the Adult Services portion of the site due to continued rampant prostitution advertisements and mounting public outrage. The multi-state letter, to craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and founder Craig Newmark, contends that craigslist cannot — or will [...]
Courant Avoiding Producing Documents In Watchdog’s Wrongful Termination Suit
My attorney Joseph Garrison of New Haven has filed documents in Hartford Superior Court notifying Judge Marshall Berger that the Courant “has furnished almost no discovery” despite legal requirements that it do so. So far we have provided every available document in our possession to Courant lawyers in answer to their interrogatories and I have sat [...]
“Free” Quarters In Courant Ad Costs $102.88
I love these full-page ads in newspapers like The Courant this morning where companies – with the full permission of the media – attempt to mislead consumers.
Former Greenwich Time Hedge Fund Reporter Takes On Newspaper
Yesterday I thought I was finally going to get my day in court with alleged penny stock scam artist Michael Metter but instead find out Hearst Newspapers has succumbed to the Greenwich Radio station executive who’s facing serious criminal charges. You see in April, the Greenwich Time and I were sued in Connecticut small claims [...]
What’s Next After Kagan’s Confirmation?
Based on Elena Kagan’s writing and other actions, the new Supreme Court justice can be expected to shift power further toward an Executive Branch that’s vastly more powerful than the one the Framers created and that the country adjusted with post-Civil War amendments establishing additional civil rights that we need for a post-slave society.
Topix – Under Pressure – Agrees To Reform
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, joined by 31 other state attorneys general, today announced an agreement with Topix.com to improve consumer protections and eliminate a $19.99 fee to expedite review of abusive or inappropriate posts. All reports of abuse on Topix, an Internet message board host, will be reviewed free of charge, and the site [...]
Courant Asks Judge Again To Throw Out Watchdog Wrongful Termination Suit
The Courant and Tribune companies have again request that my wrongful termination suit be thrown out, claiming that I do not have legal recourse. The companies succeeded in their first request to dismiss and my lawyer, Joseph Garrison of New Haven filed an amended complaint, which is the subject of this motion. Since I do [...]
Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? Really? DOJ’s Political ‘Purge’ and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Connecticut Crime Case
Four days before Connecticut’s Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush administration’s U.S. attorney firing scandal, a team of lawyers she led was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Andrew Kreig, who covered Connecticut’s federal courts for the Hartford Courant from 1976 to 1981, today reveals that the previously unreported fact from Dannehy’s past calls her entire national investigation into question. The revelations similarly compromise the pending investigation by her Connecticut colleague, John Durham, who since 2008 has been the nation’s special prosecutor for DOJ and CIA decision-making involving torture.
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Normally I don’t announce advertising or sponsorships on our website because they are clear-cut, traditional advertising and what they pay is of no consequence to the reader. The only difference between the sponsors on my site and those in newspapers is that I tell them in writing that being an advertiser gives them no advantage [...]
Better Business Bureau Gives HAMAS Terrorist Organization Accreditation And A- Rating
In an embarrassing move that shines light on how little checking is done by some Better Business Bureau’s before accrediting a business, a California blogger revealed tonight that someone has managed to get a fake business with the name of the terrorist organization Hamas accredited by the bureau in return for a $425 fee.
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