A former SEC employee, Darcy Flynn, has accused the SEC of destroying thousands of data files on high profile inquiries including an early-stage investigation into convicted Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernard Madoff. While the administration, DOJ and Congress continue to turn a blind eye to the SEC’s alleged unlawful record keeping,…
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Fifteen years ago, former President Clinton passed welfare reform, signing into law “the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act,” which had the effect of reorganizing welfare into Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. Fifteen years later, with an economy spiraling downwards, the largest racial wealth gap we’ve had in…
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Latinos comprise at least 14.9 percent of Alabama’s population, not counting the high number of undocumented immigrants. Gov. Bentley, trumpeting his anti-immigration xenophobic bona fides, signed into law HB56 — the most draconian, unconstitutional immigration bill in the U.S., surpassing Arizona’s SB1070. The state’s businesses are bracing for an economic…
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From ImmigrationProf blog: In a three block neighborhood in Jackson Heights in Queens live immigrants from 51 different countries and speak 21 different languages. Census tract 281 is the most diverse neighborhood in the Big Apple. Census tract 281 – Roosevelt Ave. to Northern Blvd., from 83rd to 85th Sts.…
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Cross-Posted from Criminal Injustice Kos:† † Criminal InJustice Kos is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Soothsayer99, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CIK. Criminal InJustice Kos is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Attica Prison Uprising…
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The Strauss-Kahn case will make immigrants, particularly poor immigrant women of color, less likely to report crimes of sexual assault and rape, especially when the alleged perpetrator is a powerful, affluent white European male. Slate has a remarkable rebuttal against the Manhattan D.A.’s characterizations of the alleged inconsistencies of Nafissatou…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre commemorative site on the National Mall, will be officially dedicated on Aug. 28. It is the first memorial to be dedicated [on the National Mall] to a non-white leader and an African-American. Twenty-six-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. was the chosen leader…
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According to Democracy Now, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been kicked off a 50-state task force negotiating a possible settlement with the nation’s largest mortgage companies. The Obama administration has been pressuring Schneiderman to drop opposition to a settlement, which would effectively immunize the nation’s largest banks from…
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