Politico: Some of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s top fundraisers are warning that they will no longer support him if he bolts the Republican Party to run for the Senate as an independent. It’s not entirely clear what his intentions are, but with his veto Thursday of an education reform bill favored by Republicans and repeated [...]
DETROIT (AP) — An Ohio man charged in what federal prosecutors say was a Christian militia’s plot to wage war against the government said Saturday that he wasn’t aware of any such specific plans. Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from jail in Sanilac County, Mich., about 75 [...]
Washington (AP) – – President Obama scrapped plans to travel to Poland on Saturday for the funeral of Poland’s president because of hazardous flying conditions caused by the volcanic ash cloud over Europe. Obama said the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Lee Feinstein, would represent the United States at the service Sunday in Krakow for Lech [...]
April 17 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s efforts to burnish its reputation just got a lot tougher. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, 55, spent the last year defending the firm against criticism from politicians and pundits, who decried Goldman Sachs’s profit in the aftermath of the financial crisis and its sale of [...]
The Hill: Republicans sought to tie President Barack Obama to Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs after it was hit with civil fraud charges. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) released a statement after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against the Wall Street titan, calling the firm a “key supporter” of the president’s bid [...]
DETROIT (AP) – The leader of a Christian militia planned an elaborate, two-part training session for this month and told members it was OK to kill “anyone who might stumble upon the operation,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday. Details about the Hutaree’s planned training session—to be held during the second and fourth [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government has accused Goldman Sachs & Co. of defrauding investors by failing to disclose conflicts of interest in mortgage investments it sold as the housing market was collapsing. The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint Friday that Goldman failed to disclose that one of its clients helped create [...]
Yes, today is my birthday. For my birthday, I’d like a “Jihadi Killer” t-shirt, but I’d like you to wear it. Thanks for a great year, everybody.
