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  • Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 34th Anniversary

    11/10/2009 12:12:18 PM PST · by LukeL · 94 replies · 4,168+ views
    Gather.com ^ | November 10 2009 | Mike R
    34 years ago today, on November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald - aka "Mighty Fritz," - foundered and sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Launched on June 8, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes for the next 13 years
  • FBI raid at meat processor believed tied to immigration irregularities [UPDATE:TERROR PLOT -ARRESTS]

    10/21/2009 12:39:00 AM PDT · by Cindy · 162 replies · 5,266+ views
    CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com ^ | October 20, 2009 | Tribune staff report
    SNIPPET: "Search at Grundy County plant called part of ongoing probe" SNIPPET: "But a source said the owner of the plant, which processes lamb and goat, was taken into custody at his home in Chicago. Documents and records were taken from the plant and from a Chicago travel agency on West Devon Avenue, also owned by the same person, the source said."
  • Judge orders partial release of Cheney CIA leak interview

    10/01/2009 9:38:30 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 39 replies · 5,136+ views
    Politico ^ | 10-1-09 | Josh Gerstein
    A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to release notes and summaries of former Vice President Dick Cheney's 2004 interview with Special Prosecutor Pat Fitzgerald in the CIA leak case, but is allowing the deletion of what may be some of the most interesting details in the documents. In a ruling issued Thursday morning, Judge Emmet Sullivan flatly rejected claims by both Bush and Obama appointees at DOJ that the entirety of the records should be withheld because their disclosure could discourage White House officials from cooperating in future investigations. The judge said the prospect of such inquiries was...
  • What Ever Happened to the Chicago Investigations? (Vanity-Bloj and Others)

    09/05/2009 12:26:58 PM PDT · by nufsed · 44 replies · 2,320+ views
    news follow-up | 9 | Self
    Has anyone stayed on this story?
  • U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (White House Job?)

    08/04/2009 1:55:05 PM PDT · by KeyLargo · 14 replies · 1,009+ views
    Hannity said that Fitzgerald will be appointed by Obama to some White House position? Maybe it's just a rumor? Or just Hannity's humor? I don't find anything in the news. Some background. "It appears that the Chicago machine might be under scrutiny by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and his team of prosecutors as well." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/former_blago_aide_pleads_guilt.html
  • Fitzgerald threatens to sue publisher over book (Triple Cross re jihadist mole in FBI)

    06/08/2009 8:39:00 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 21 replies · 1,564+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 6-8-09 | Mike Robinson
    The top federal prosecutor in Chicago is threatening to sue publisher HarperCollins, calling a book about the war on terrorism that focuses in part on cases he was involved in "a deliberate lie masquerading as the truth." If HarperCollins publishes the new edition of "Triple Cross" by Peter Lance this month "and it defames me or casts me in a false light, HarperCollins will be sued," Patrick Fitzgerald said in a letter to the New York-based company. The book focuses on, among other things, major terrorism cases that Fitzgerald prosecuted when he was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York...
  • For Car Dealers, The Hardest Sell Is on the Hill

    06/04/2009 12:04:39 PM PDT · by khnyny · 1 replies · 581+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | June 4, 2009 | Dana Hedgpeth
    Jack Fitzgerald, owner of nine Washington area dealerships -- seven of which are on the chopping block by General Motors and Chrysler -- left his headquarters on Rockville Pike mid-morning yesterday, armed with a black bag full of thick consumer reports, pie charts and line graphs on cars. In the past three weeks, he's been a virtual one-man PR machine, meeting with local and national politicians and blitzing the media in a desperate attempt to save his business.
  • Attempted Censorship by U.S. Attorney (Patrick Fitzgerald)

    06/04/2009 6:57:22 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 20 replies · 1,190+ views
    Library Juice Press ^ | 6-3-09 | Ann Sparanese
    Attempted Censorship by U.S. Attorney — A Book to Watch! ### On June 16, the paperback edition of Triple Cross: How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets and the FBI by Peter Lance will be released by HarperCollins. This is happening despite a prominent U.S. Attorney’s best efforts to stop it. Since this book was first published in hardcover in 2006, Patrick Fitzgerald, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago (the same Patrick Fitzgerald of the Valerie Plame investigation) has repeatedly attempted to have the publisher bury the book, and to prevent publication...
  • Ald. Carothers, developer accused of corruption (Fitzgerald indictment)

    05/28/2009 12:26:22 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies · 721+ views
    Chicago Breaking News Center ^ | May 28, 2009 | Jeff Coen
    Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th), a staunch ally of Mayor Richard Daley, was indicted today on charges he accepted about $40,000 in improvements to his residence as well as meals and tickets to sporting events in exchange for backing a major project by a developer. The developer, Calvin Boender, was also indicted. Carothers, 54, was charged with four counts of wire and mail fraud and one count each of accepting a bribe and filing a false federal income tax return. Boender was charged with four counts of wire and mail fraud, two counts of obstruction of justice, two misdemeanor counts of...
  • Blagojevich, his brother, top aides indicted

    04/02/2009 3:01:35 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 83 replies · 4,995+ views
    Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, his brother Rob and Christopher Kelly, a former top fundraiser for Blagojevich, were all indicted today on corruption charges, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago announced. Also charged in the indictment were Lon Monk, a lobbyist and former Blagojevich chief of staff; John Harris, also a former chief of staff to Blagojevich; and William Cellini, a Springfield insider for decades. The indictment comes four months after Blagojevich was arrested and charged with engaging in pay-to-play politics in a sweeping federal complaint that accused him of trading state jobs, contracts and regulatory favors for campaign contributions. The...
  • Clock Ticking in Blago Case

    03/29/2009 8:50:49 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 17 replies · 1,063+ views
    Chicago Public Radio ^ | 3-29-09 | Rob Wildeboer
    Federal prosecutors have only a week left to indict former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. When authorities arrested Blagojevich back in December, it was based on a criminal complaint. Prosecutors didn't have the case all tied up in a bow, but U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald rushed to bring charges because he said Blagojevich was in the middle of a crime spree. FITZGERALD: Sometimes when there's ongoing criminal conduct, and this is a very different case than what we often see, we will expose the criminal conduct and bring charges to let people know we're on to it, and to hopefully, to...
  • Ex-Chicago official found guilty of hiring fraud

    03/23/2009 8:48:11 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 13 replies · 544+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/23/09 | Mike Robinson - ap
    CHICAGO – A federal jury convicted Chicago's former streets and sanitation commissioner Monday of using bogus documents and other fraudulent acts in a scheme to load the city payroll with political campaign workers. Al Sanchez, 61, looked on without expression as U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman read the guilty verdicts on four charges of mail fraud and acquittals on three others. Each count carries a maximum 20-year sentence. Afterward, Sanchez said the conviction was unfair. "We had a job to do and we did it and now I'm sitting up here convicted of crimes and I don't know what...
  • Judge Posner Checks (US Atty) Patrick Fitzgerald (actually, he slammed him)

    03/19/2009 9:17:06 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 16 replies · 1,145+ views
    Chicago Observer ^ | 3-18-09 | Jim Merriner
    If U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald was still thinking about appealing the light sentence given Fast Eddie Vrdolyak, a ruling in an unrelated appellate case last week might have changed his mind. Fitzgerald had appealed a lenient sentence in a case of consumer fraud, with the result that Judge Richard Posner actually ordered the defendant acquitted, adding a rebuke to prosecutors that was, even for Posner, sharply worded. Fitzgerald’s spokesman told me that the Vrdolyak matter is “still under review” and he had no comment on Posner’s ruling. Vrdolyak, after pleading guilty in a $1.5 million financial fraud, was sentenced last...
  • Sources: Sen. Burris interviewed by feds

    02/22/2009 12:28:39 AM PST · by STARWISE · 8 replies · 505+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 2-21-09 | John Chase and Jeff Coen
    U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was interviewed by federal authorities for several hours Saturday as part of the ongoing corruption investigation into charges that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell a Senate seat for personal or political profit, sources familiar with the talks said. Burris' interview, which had been delayed for weeks, took place at his attorney's offices in downtown Chicago. He has been informed he is not a target of the probe, the sources said. Burris acknowledged a week ago that federal investigators wanted to talk to him about the circumstances surrounding his appointment by Blagojevich, which occurred three...
  • Obama's mysterious trip home -- what was that all about? (Fitzie ?)

    02/16/2009 7:55:43 AM PST · by STARWISE · 55 replies · 2,002+ views
    Okay, so the President and his family came home to Chicago this weekend to get a haircut, play basketball with friends and take his wife to Valentine's Day dinner at Gold Coast's Table 52. This is what we're to believe the President has time to focus on, as Iran develops world peace-threatening nuclear weapons, Illinois-based soldiers die in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American economy teeters on the edge of falling into bottomless catastrophe? Amazing timing, don't you think? The very day that Roland Burris admits he didn't really tell the Illinois House impeachment committee, "the truth, the WHOLE truth, and...
  • Fitzgerald shines as Warner leads Cardinals to franchise's first Super Bowl (Warner thanks Jesus)

    01/18/2009 3:40:26 PM PST · by doug from upland · 77 replies · 1,911+ views
    espn ^ | 1-18-09
    NOTE: For those who don't get it, Jesus is not rooting for any particular team. When players say that they thank God or say they thank Jesus, they are thanking our Creator for giving them the strength to use the talent God gave them and to be the best they can be. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GLENDALE, Ariz. -- That's not a mirage rising out of the desert, folks. It's the Arizona Cardinals soaring to their first Super Bowl. Yes, the Cardinals, founding members of the NFL, but historically among the most dysfunctional of franchises, finally have joined the big boys. Capitalizing on...
  • (US Atty) Pat Fitzgerald Boots One (accidentally releases names of sources in fraud case

    01/07/2009 4:21:31 PM PST · by STARWISE · 63 replies · 4,353+ views
    In a remarkable screw-up, a Department of Justice official today accidentally distributed to the media a document containing the names of nearly 20 confidential witnesses interviewed during a federal probe targeting the operators of a fraudulent investment scheme. In announcing felony charges against two men for their roles in an alleged $15 million Ponziesque swindle, the spokesman for Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (he of Rod Blagojevich- and Scooter Libby-prosecuting fame) e-mailed reporters a 62-page U.S. District Court complaint filed against John Walsh and Charles Martin, principals of the now-defunct One World Capital Group. Included in the document was a...
  • A show that Springer couldn't even conceive

    01/03/2009 2:21:45 PM PST · by rellimpank · 17 replies · 1,244+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 03 jan 09 | John Kass
    Roland "Tombstone" Burris goes to Washington this week as part of the Illinois political freak show, and many of us back home will watch it and feel like cringing, at least at the beginning. Who among us could not wince at the prospect of Tombstone standing before news cameras, his head bobbing, smiling amiably, chattering nonsensically as is his way, insisting he feels no shame. All he wants is to become a United States senator, and he kissed a tainted hand to get there. His fellow Democrats may be ready to bar his entrance to the Senate chambers, and politicians...
  • 'Thousands of phone calls' on feds' wiretaps- MORE TARGETS 'Multiple witnesses have come forward,

    01/03/2009 7:26:36 PM PST · by STARWISE · 78 replies · 5,019+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | 1-1-09 | Natasha Korecki
    'Thousands of phone calls' on feds' wiretaps MORE TARGETS | 'Multiple witnesses have come forward,' authorities say $$$ Prosecutors revealed Wednesday that they captured "thousands of phone calls" on secret wiretaps in their investigation into Gov. Blagojevich. The disclosure came in a government filing in which prosecutors asked for a 90-day extension to indict Blagojevich and his former chief of staff, John Harris. The filing also revealed that the government has additional targets in its ongoing probe and that the governor's Dec. 9 arrest spurred more witnesses to talk to prosecutors. "Multiple witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to...
  • U.S. attorney's office seeks 3 more months to indict Gov. Rod Blagojevich

    01/02/2009 6:39:53 AM PST · by COUNTrecount · 23 replies · 729+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | January 1, 2009 | John Chase
    Federal authorities investigating Gov. Rod Blagojevich have intercepted thousands of phone calls, interviewed a number of new cooperating witnesses and targeted several potential defendants in the case, according to a court filing released Wednesday. The motion was made in federal court by prosecutors who are seeking an extra three months to formally indict Blagojevich and his former chief of staff, John Harris. The move was expected because the deadline for handing up an indictment had been set for Jan. 7. The extension would give U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald's office until April 7. Fitzgerald's office cited the complexity of the case...