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“Monthly information for January of 2006 about the federal prosecution counts for white collar crime and three other major crime categories — immigration, drugs, and weapons — are now available to all Americans by going to a special new feature on TRAC’s public site.”
Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 2005-March 31, 2006, Office of the Inspector General. See also Press Release: OIG Reports More Than $1 Billion in Recoveries From Fighting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, June 2, 2006
Press release: Grassley Questions Nonprofit Investment Groups Practices, Seeks IRS, SEC Comment [6 pages, PDF, includes text of letter from Grassley to National Association of Investors Corp. President as well as letter to etter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox]
Following up on previous postings about Connecticut librarians gagged by the FBI’s use of the National Security Letter provision of the Patriot Act, news from an ACLU press conference on the identity of the librarians and their respective statements as follows: Barbara Bailey Peter Chase George Christian Janet Nocek
Directory of Published Proceedings: search by subject (Science/Technology, Medical/Life Sciences, Pollution Control/Ecology, Social Sciences/Humanities), sponsor and publisher, country, State/Province and year the event took place. [D.C.]
Press Briefing: CIA Declassifies Operational Materials As a Result of New Disclosure Policy under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group “Since 1999, the IWG has declassified and opened to the public an estimated 8 million pages of documents, including 1.2 million pages of OSS …
Cases and Materials on American Federalism, Douglas G. Amber, J.D. Purdue University Calumet, [Last Revision Date: May 29, 2006].
60 Sites in 60 Minutes 2006 [via Lawsites]
Industry Report: Product Liability: A Trend Still Worth Watching (PDF, 4 pages)
This New York Times article describes the obstacles used by the SEC to obstruct public access to corporate records, even if a third party expert is used to facilitate document retrieval using a FOIA request.
National Association for Business Economics 3rd Annual Professional Development Seminar, How to Find and Use Economic Statistics
According to News.com, text from a 25 page redacted brief (PDF) filed on behalf of AT&T on whether the NSA surveillance case can be litigated without compromising state secrets, has been recovered to reveal the company’s response to alleged cooperation with the government phone surveillance program. Also from News.com: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and …
