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Graft Defined

To use public office for private gain; to take advantage of one's position to make money. When House Speaker Newt Gingrich revealed that he had accepted a $4.5 million book advance shortly after becoming Speaker, he was accused in some quarters of graft. (He later rejected the advance.)

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Thu Jul 2

  • Washington Post sells access, $25,000+ - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com: "The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it?s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its ?health care reporting and editorial staff." The offer ? which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-offic ial encounters ? is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival." ; When a newspaper does something so unethical that a LOBBYIST rats them out, it must be pretty low.

Wed Jul 1

  • After Call From Senator Inouye's Office, Small Hawaii Bank Got U.S. Aid: "Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth. [...] Even if Inouye were directly involved, it would not violate the rules the Senate sets for itself, experts said. Both the FDIC and the Treasury said the decision was not affected by the involvement of Inouye's office." oh, THAT's reassuring.
  • GraftPoint - GitWiki

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Sun Jun 21

  • GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT: Acute graft versus host disease is a condition in which the graft versus host reaction occurs in the first 3 months of the transplant procedure.Usua lly it appears in the first 2-4 weeks following transplant.Acu te graft versus host disease is characterized by erythematous[r eddish] maculopapular skin lesions,anorex ia,diarrhea

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Wed Jun 10

  • Attorney General should not intervene in the fire truck scandal: Klanarong - Nationmultimed ia.com: may/june (no date given): interesting little details on proceedings in fire-truck-sca ndal The Bt6.2 billion irregularities relating to the fire truck scandal should be tried without the intervention from the attorney general, graft buster Klanarong Chantik said on Friday. The public prosecutors are obligated to initiate the graft trial proceedings within 30 days because the National Anti Corruption Commission has already confirmed the list of seven suspects, Klanarong said. The seven suspects include former prime minister Samak Sundaravej for his involvement when he led the city administration , and former Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayodhin.
  • Politicians pushing for NGV buses deserve their 'reward' - Nationmultimed ia.com: june05, nation: op ed by thanong on politicians play on bus-lease... 555 LIKE MOST BANGKOKIANS, you must be surprised by the relentless dedication of our politicians to please all of us with a new NGV bus service, which we have been promised will be world-class, clean, efficient and bring profitability to the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority. Normally, politicians are not much interested in pleasing us. But this time it is different. The politicians now say we need the NGV bus service. So we should have it and be grateful for it.
  • Battle to Halt Graft Scourge in Africa Ebbs: Experts and prosecutors say they fear that major setbacks to anticorruption efforts in Africa?s most pivotal nations are weakening the resolve to fight.

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