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Articles Written by: CAROL D. LEONNIG
Who is This?
Carol D. Leonnig is an American investigative journalist and a prominent Washington Post Staff Writer.
The investigations by two separate ethics offices include an examination of the powerful subcommittee chairman, John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), as well as others who helped steer federal funds to clients of the PMA Group. The lawmakers received campaign ...
investigation by the Justice Department. A year ago, the FBI raided PMA's offices and carted away boxes of records dealing with its political donations and the firm's efforts to win earmarks for their clients.
WASHINGTON — Nearly half the members of a ...
From CAROL D. LEONNIG WASHINGTON POST,
The San Jose Mercury News,
29 Oct 2009
Last year's Republican nominee for president predicted that Sarah Palin will remain a "formidable force" in the GOP, despite criticisms that his vice presidential choice lacked the substance and policy knowledge needed for national office. Sen. ...
In the coming year's military spending bill, members of a House panel continue to steer lucrative defense contracts to companies represented by their former staffers, who in turn steer generous campaign donations to those lawmakers, a new analysis has ...
A rapidly growing union that represents nurses, janitors and other low-wage workers is coming under fire from conservatives because of its long-standing financial and leadership ties to ACORN, a liberal organizing group recently embarrassed by videos ...
longtime director Wade Rathke was pushed to resign over his role in concealing from the full board his brother's embezzlement of ACORN money. Lewis said she has shut down dozens of affiliates.
WASHINGTON — Documents released by a Senate Republican on ...
From CAROL D. LEONNIG WASHINGTON POST,
The San Jose Mercury News,
24 Sep 2009
ACORN's community organizing groups, now in trouble after some embarrassing undercover videos were taken in their offices, used more than half of their charitable and public funds in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates, according to an analysis by the ...
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, founder Wade Rathke said conservative claims that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a "criminal enterprise" that misuses federal and donor funds for political ends -- ...
INDIANA, Pa. -- The buzzer is broken at the John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security, and a paper note invites visitors, "Please knock." On a summer afternoon, a lone intern answers the door of the mostly empty basement offices that over ...
The proposition was outrageous, outlandish, and right up James E. O'Keefe III's alley. Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp, walk into the offices of the ACORN community activist group, openly ...
From DARRYL FEARS AND CAROL D. LEONNIG,
The Washington Post,
18 Sep 2009
