Political Corruption

Five Bodies, Five Suspects, One Chance to get it Right! When a series of brutal hate crimes grip the small town of Orvin, Cole Sage is asked to return for one final story. What starts as a shocking, racially charged murder quickly spirals into a nightmare of violence and suspicion. The quiet Oklahoma town is now a battleground, with deep-rooted prejudices toward undocumented aliens surfacing and more bodies turning up. As Cole digs deeper, he discovers that everyone seems to have a motive—and no one can be trusted. Reunited with his old friend, FBI Agent Carter Washington, the two find ...

The remarkable lengths Ruderman and Laker go to for the story - chasing down witnesses on the city's grimmest streets, sifting through archive boxes and hours of surveillance tape for crucial clues, and coaxing reluctant victims to come forward - put their determination to balance motherhood with the career they love to the ultimate test.

An Ice Pick Murderer Is Terrorizing San Francisco San Francisco is reeling from a series of brutal icepick murders, and Cole Sage is distracted when his secretary and sidekick, Hanna, takes in a troubled teenage girl. The girl is on the run, and as it turns out is hiding things Hanna should know. Cole works with Lt. Leonard Chin to find the perpetrator of the savage killings terrorizing the city. As Cole and Hanna try to protect the girl, they find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where every answer leads to more danger. With the body count rising, Cole must navigate a ...

Bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp is a journey downriver through the bayous and marshes of Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom.

From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality. Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress.

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Cincuenta años tuvieron que pasar para conocer por qué ocurrió la masacre del 2 de octubre. Hoy podemos saber con certeza histórica por qué, cómo y quiénes orquestaron la oscura noche de Tlatelolco.

S.P. Somtow’s novel The Stone Buddha’s Tears was inspired by a real-life incident in 1991 in which the city of Bangkok, about to host an international conference, decided to throw up a corrugated iron fence around a slum in order to conceal it from the passing delegates. In this fantasy novel of innocence and hope, the lives of two boys from opposite ends of the social spectrum intersect because of the wall. The protagonist, a beggar known only as “Boy”, meets a novice monk whose father, a corrupt politician, has sent him to a monastery in order to provide a picture-perfect photo-op...

High Crimes opens with Nancy Pelosi deciding the House should take up impeachment, then, in part one, leaps back to explain what Ukraine was really all about: not just Joe Biden and election interference, but a money grab and oil. In the second part, the authors recount key meetings throughout the run up to the impeachment hearings, including many of the heated confrontations between the Trump administration and House Democrats.

This is an audio recording of Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, issued by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and the Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 7, 2019.

This book is about the abuse of words to attack someone’s character and delegitimize their opinion or ideas. It’s about how narcissistic people control and manipulate everyone around them, even the citizens of an entire nation. Just whisper a phrase from a long list of so-called conspiracy theories, and watch how the vast majority of Americans within earshot are triggered and immediately attack your character. They typically refuse to humbly and intelligently discuss the facts, and they aggressively come at you with the passion of someone whose most sacred beliefs have been assaulted. ...

She was trying to do her job by the book. Strong undercurrent of corruption was drifting her away. Could she survive her reality? Reema was a hard working Indian girl in her twenties. When her low paying public sector job made her work sixteen hours a day she did not complain. The same job introduced her to the reality of crime and corruption. Night after night Reema found herself wide awake turning from one side to another. Corruption was not a choice though corruption was about to kill her body and soul. Would she bury her naivety to become the ghastliest evil to triumph over the evil? ...

The Skyline Cypher plunges you into the gleaming high-rises of Miami, where power and luxury mask a scheme so vast it threatens to upend the global order. In this pulse-pounding thriller by Terence Middleton, ambitious real estate analyst Eva Alcott stumbles onto an explosive secret hidden within the city’s most prestigious development. Beneath the glitter of penthouse sales and million-dollar deals, she uncovers a dangerous cabal of corrupt politicians, cartel lords, and arms dealers—each one entangled in a hidden deed clause granting them unimaginable influence for generations to come...

Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce tells, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. Author Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade and considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge.

*A vicious corrupt candidate faces trial. *For murder… among other crimes. *It will take a miracle to take her down. *Enter Calian Begay. Against the odds, Calian Begay, the arrogant Native American sheriff arrested Secretary of State Whitney Chabot and her wealthy political cohorts. In addition to underwriting a human trafficking cartel, it doesn’t help that Whitney’s choice of lovers is a tad too close to home. Now all Cal has to do is get the reprobates convicted. Given who is leading the prosecution, success is far from a certainty. When the corrupt attorney general is thrown off ...

Trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress and that business interests wield control over our legislature. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system.

One year into Donald Trump's presidency, the US 2016 presidential election is still being fought by both parties. As the case of Russian hacking and collusion is investigated, and Hillary Clinton desperately attempts to explain what happened to her and why she lost, a more important question, one haunted by shadowy tactics and campaign double-dealing, rings out: what happened to Bernie Sanders?

In the autumn of 2015, the founders of the US political research firm Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, were hired by a Republican presidential candidate to look into the records of Donald Trump. What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn, as they became the first to uncover Trump's disturbing ties to the Kremlin and the crimes that since have plagued his presidency.

Greg Palast has spent the last 30 years getting the goods on corporate con men and political hucksters. Now he and his special guests cut through the TV news babytalk in Armed Madhouse. Armed with more than 50 classified documents and confidential memos, Palast brings you the stories not allowed in The New York Times.