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In development

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• Senate Classes table

This is a work in progress, summarizing the Classes in the US Senate. This has been moved to User:JimmB/sandbox/Senate_Classes_table

There are 4 versions. Jump to each version: 2006 2008 2010 2012

Cleaning up links that go to disambiguation pages, by pointing them to the correct page. Pages done:

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• Clinton
• Roosevelt
• Kennedy
• Johnson
• President Johnson
• ALF
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• Bravo
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In progress:

• Eastern Time Zone --> North American Eastern Time Zone

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Top Chef Season 2 table

This is a work in progress for the Top Chef (Season 2) page. I have moved the current working version to Talk:Top Chef (Season 2)

Scandals in the George W. Bush Administration

The following is being adapted from an article on Muckraker.com[Muckraker.com]. Once it is rewritten so as not to infringe copyright, I plan to post it.

Indicted / Convicted / Pled Guilty

• Scooter Libby - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff - resigned October 25, 2005 after being indicted for obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements in connection with the investigation of the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.[1]

• Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA - resigned after only two months on the job. Pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and making false statements relating to stocks he owned in companies he regulated.[2]

• Brian Doyle - Deputy Press Secretary, DHS - Resigned in wake of child sex scandal. Pleaded no contest to 32 criminal counts.[3]

• Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy - resigned in February, 2006, pleaded guilty to shoplifting from Target and Hecht's stores.[4]

• David Safavian - former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget - convicted June 20, 2006 of lying to ethics officials and Senate investigators about his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.[5]

• Larry Franklin - intelligence officer, Defense - resigned, pleaded guilty to passing secrets to Israel.[6]

• Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department - pleaded guilty to failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.[7]

• Frank Figueroa - senior DHS official, former head of anti-sex-crime Operation Predator - pleaded no contest to exposing himself to 16-year-old girl in Florida mall. Girl says he fondled himself for ten minutes. Figueroa forfeited his badge, gun, and access to databases; employment status pending internal DHS review.

• Darleen Druyun - senior contracting official, U.S. Air Force - pleaded guilty and sentenced to nine months in prison for her role in the Boeing tanker lease scandal while negotiating herself a new job with Boeing.[8]

• John Korsmo - chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board - pleaded guilty in 2005 to lying to the Senate and an inspector general. He swore he had no idea how a list of presidents for FHFB-regulated banks were invited to a fundraiser for his friend's congressional campaign. On the invites, Korsmo was listed as the "Special Guest." Got 18 months of probation.[9]

Resigned Due to Investigation

• Carl Truscott - Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - resigned. A report by the Justice Department's Inspector General found that Truscott wasted tens of thousands of dollars on luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a high school video project.[10]

• Joseph E. Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense - Resigned amid charges he personally intervened to protect top political appointees.[11]

• Steven Griles - Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department - resigned, under investigation (as of December, 2006) by the Justice Department for his ties to Jack Abramoff.

• Susan Ralston - assistant, White House - resigned amidst revelations that she had accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff without compensating him, counter to White House ethics rules.[12]

• Dusty Foggo - Executive Director, CIA - stepped down following accusations of corruption in connection to the Duke Cunningham scandal. [13] Under investigation (as of December, 2006).

• Janet Rehnquist - Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services - resigned in the face of allegations she blocked a politically dangerous probe on behalf of the Bush family.[14]

• Ken Tomlinson, Board Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting - resigned at the release of an inspector general report concluding he had broken laws in spending CPB money to hire politically connected consultants to search for "bias" without consulting the board.[15] He remains Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors where another investigation found he was running a "horse racing operation" out of his office, and continuing to hire politically-wired individuals to do "consulting" work for him.[16]

• George Deutsch - press aide, NASA - resigned amid allegations he prevented the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming.[17]

• Richard Perle - Chairman, Defense Policy Board - resigned from Pentagon advisory panel amid conflict-of-interest charges.

• James Roche - secretary of the Air Force - resigned in the wake of the Boeing tanker lease scandal, after it was revealed he intimidated opponents of the $23 billion contract.[18]

• Marvin Sambur - top contracting executive, U.S. Air Force - Druyun's boss, Sambur resigned in the wake of the scandal. Investigations cleared him of wrongdoing.

• Philip Cooney - chief of staff, White House Council on Environmental Quality - a former oil industry lawyer with no scientific expertise, Cooney resigned after it was revealed he had watered down reports on global warming.

• Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - shortly after Scully resigned in 2003, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found that Scully had pressured the agency's actuary to underestimate the full cost of the Medicare reform bill by approximately $100 billion until after Congress passed the bill into law. Scully was also charged wtih conflict of interest allegations by the U.S. attorney's office for billing CMS for expenses incurred during a job search while he still headed the agency. He settled those charges by paying $9,782.

• Michelle Larson Korsmo - deputy chief of staff, Department of Labor - Helped her husband (see Frank Korsmo, above) with his donor scam. Quietly left her Labor plum job in February 2004, about two weeks before news broke that she and her husband were the targets of a criminal probe.

• David Smith - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Interior Department - resigned after shooting a buffalo and accepting its remains as an illegal gratuity. He eventually paid over $3,000 for the dead buffalo, but only after the internal inquiry had commenced.

Nomination Failed Due to Scandal

• Bernard Kerik - nominated, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security - withdrew his nomination amidst a host of corruption allegations. Eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor relating to having accepted improper gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars while he was a New York City official in the late 1990's.

• Timothy Flanigan - nominated, Deputy Attorney General - withdrew his nomination amidst revelations that he'd worked closely with lobbyist Jack Abramoff when he was General Counsel for Corporate and International Law at Tyco International, which was a client of Abramoff's.

• Linda Chavez - nominated, Secretary of Labor - withdrew her nomination amidst revelations that an illegal immigrant lived in her home and worked for her.

Source: Muckraker.com

You put another President's signature (Bill Clinton) on another president's (I can't remember?). I thought it was vandalism, but you obviously were experimenting. I took off your warning --Bearly541 17:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand what you mean about "another President's signature". I have fixed a lot of links to Clinton, pointing them to Bill Clinton, as noted above, as well as a number of other presidents. I may have made a mistake fixing one of those links. If so, I apologize for the inadvertent mistake. It was not "experimenting". Again, I wish you had documented where you found it. Looking through your last 1000 edits, I don't see any page I might have touched. If you had looked at my other contributions, you would have seen that they were well-intended. JimmB 18:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Please look at User_talk:69.136.96.119. This user has had several final warnings and is vandalizing again today. Other admins have been extremely lax with banning him. JimmB 21:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a user to report to an admin, please post it to WP:AIV rather than to an individual admin's Talk page. Regards,  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  21:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did report him to WP:AIV, at 21:10, 4 August 2006. And have more than once. Other admins have put short term blocks on him. I have seen you take what I believe to be more appropriate action on similar vandals earlier today, so I thought I'd bring this to your personal attention. This is a particularly aggregious vandal! I won't bother you again. JimmB 21:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, your reporting is in line with procedure, so that's fine. As you can see from [19], the IP address editor has been blocked until the sixth of August. Myself or another editor can review the situation if they begin to vandalise WP again after the block has expired. Egregious is the word to which you refer, by the way! Regards,  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  22:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I have returned back this guys' comment on Barbara's talk page and added my comment there. I consider this issue as solved. If you want to contribute with your ideas, do that at Barbara's talk page. I will always remove your comments from my talk page cause this is my right, to remove unwanted edits from my talk page. Have a nice end of weekend. - Admin Darwinek 12:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Issue II - May 2008

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