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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Senate will soon issue findings of a probe of the US mortgage meltdown that fueled the global financial crisis, with Goldman Sachs likely to face fresh embarrassment over its role, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, whose high-profile inquiry commission subpoenaed Goldman's and other executives last year, is due to release its report on the subprime implosion of 2007 and 2008. The paper, citing people familiar with the matter, said the report was expected to release emails from securities firms that developed or sold subprime mortgages and financial vehicles including...

Demonstrating why Janet Napolitano's "record deportations" mean absolutely nothing, illegals tell FOX's Griff Jenkins they will come right back in. One even says he will go and get a bite to eat and then come right back across the border. Americans know this is a farce after seeing rapists and murderers come back across with ease - some even after a dozen deportations. This is a useless exercise and waste of billions ($5 billion to deport 390,000 last year), until a border wall is built. Video Link HEREStand With Arizona on Facebook

A Nogales, Son. man with a criminal history who was convicted three times of illegally entering the country after being deported has been sentenced to 8.75 years in federal prison. Pedro Puentes-Meza, 32, was given seven years for pleading guilty to illegal re-entry after deportation and 1.75 years for violating his supervised release from a previous conviction, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix. Puentes-Meza, whose criminal history also includes seven convictions for violent crimes, was apprehended in April 2008 by U.S. Border Patrol officials in Bisbee, the release said.

President Barack Obama has asked Congress for a 30 percent increase in funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) “Secure Communities” program – a program launched in March 2008 by the Bush administration to help local jails identify inmates who are in the United States illegally so they can be deported when their prison sentences are completed. A 2008 fact sheet about the program reported that ICE, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, checked the immigration status of “100 percent” of inmates in state and federal prisons, but only 10 percent of the more than...

Richard Velasquez has been booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center 28 times. He has been charged with a felony 20 times and violated his probation or parole at least six times. He has spent 11 years of his life locked behind bars. But he was back on the streets and able to lead a ring of bandits that robbed about 20 banks throughout the metropolitan area over the past three months, according to police. "This is the stuff that gets me pretty damn mad," Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz said. "He is a career criminal. His job is to go...

SALEM — Some illegal immigrants facing serious criminal charges are avoiding prosecution — with the help of the government — thanks to what prosecutors say is a gaping hole in the state's bail law. Take the case of Carlos Enrique Lugo, also known as Albert Varga, who was charged with heroin trafficking on the North Shore. If convicted, he faced a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison. A judge ordered him held on $50,000 bail, and he sat in Middleton Jail for several months. Then, last November, a Dorchester woman walked into the jail with a bag of cash...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Six years ago, convicted sex offender Kenneth Glenn Hinson was released from prison after a judge rejected prosecutors' pleas that he be committed indefinitely. That same judge was to preside Thursday over a preliminary hearing for Hinson, now charged with kidnapping and raping two teenage girls in an underground room behind his home. Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham's decision in 2001 allowed for the eventual release of Hinson, 48, who was arrested again after a four-day manhunt in March. The girls were sexually assaulted and left bound inside the room, concealed under a shed, but managed to free...

Calgarians are throwing their support behind a city cop facing internal charges after lashing out at the justice system. Const. Shaun Horne said he is overwhelmed by the support of fellow police officers and the public since the Sun reported he has lost faith in the justice system after a man with 65 convictions and Canada-wide warrants was released with conditions in December by justice of the peace Kristine Robidoux. “I’m at a loss for words,” he said today. “I can’t believe the support.” Horne said he arrived at his Silver Springs office to find numerous messages from both cops...

The man approached her at the school bus stop Monday afternoon. The 14-year-old freshman had just gotten off the bus from Eastern Hills High School. The man tried to talk to her. She ignored him and walked away, but he followed. Police say the girl called 911 and kept the operator on the phone during the chase that followed. Her quick thinking helped them catch the man. Glenn E. Holloway, 28, an evacuee from New Orleans, remained in the Mansfield Jail Tuesday night facing a charge of unlawful restraint of a person younger than age 17. The man chased her...

MEXICAN SEX OFFENDER AND SIX-TIME DEPORTEE IN ICE CUSTODYArrested following high-speed chase; possesses extensive criminal history  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A complaint was issued today on an admitted Mexican gang member, convicted child sex offender and six-time deportee who was arrested last week by Cedar County Sheriff's Department a day after a high-speed chase with Missouri Highway patrol, and ultimately turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Roberto Madrigal-Lopez, 33, and his passenger fled to nearby woods following the Aug. 2 wreck of their vehicle during the high-speed chase. Upon his Aug. 3 arrest, Madrigal-Lopez originally claimed to be Carlos...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SAN FRANCISCO - Colin Powell's next tour of duty will be in venture capital. The old soldier, who was formerly Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has enlisted with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capital firms. As a strategic limited partner, Powell will have an undisclosed stake in some of the investments made by a Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins, which has previously struck it rich with a list of renowned startups that include online search engine leader Google Inc. and Web browser...

PHOENIX A 39-year-old Iranian man has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle other Iranians into the United States through Mexico. The U-S Attorney's Office in Phoenix says Zeayadali Malhamdary was arrested Thursday in the parking lot of a Mesa tailoring business he owns. The F-B-I began investigating Malhamdary after a source told immigration officials that Malhamdary had sought help getting false Mexican visas so he could bring Iranians into Mexico. The feds say he then intended to bring them across the border into Arizona. During a court appearance today, an innocent plea was entered on Malhamrary's behalf. Malhamdary is...

DOUGLAS - Agents assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol's Douglas station arrested an illegal immigrant wanted on child sex changes in Colorado. The arrest happened Sunday when agents stopped a vehicle holding 13 illegal immigrants, said Andrea Zortman, a spokeswoman for the agency's Tucson Sector. The vehicle was seized. As the 13 illegal immigrants were being processed, fingerprint information on Concepcion Mendoza-Pedroza, 28, came back that he was wanted on an outstanding warrant issued by Arapaho County in Colorado, Zortman said. The warrant was for contempt of court for failing to report on a sexual assault of a child charge....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614Washington, DC—The former Clinton staffers riding to the rescue of the floundering Kerry campaign this week were earning a living coordinating attack ads against the President at MoveOn.Org and other groups just last week. Stanley Greenberg has worked for MoveOn.org, the Media Fund, and America Coming Together. Howard Wolfson and Joe Lockhart have worked for the Glover Park Group, a company that created attack ads about the Patriot Act for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, a 501(c) 3 group. “We’ve seen Kerry’s former campaign manager go to work for 527s. We’ve seen a MoveOn.org...

With new focus on the revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors, another case deserves further scrutiny: The January 2000 hiring of former Army Lt. General David K. Heebner by General Dynamics Corp., and the subsequent award 11 months later of a $4 billion contract to General Dynamics to build the Army's Stryker Interim Armored Vehicle. POGO has learned that the Pentagon's top independent tester warned the Secretary of the Army that the vehicle should not be deployed in Iraq because it is vulnerable to rocket propelled grenades. As one of Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki's top...

...Nowadays, it is well understood that pedophiles, convicted child molesters, do not generally speaking, repent. Regardless of the psychiatric treatment, jail time, whatever, those vile creatures continue to prey on our children. That being the case, you would think that when you are aware of a three times convicted child molester visiting a park to fantasize about the little children there, a restraining order at the very least, would be called for. The mayor of a town thought so, so did the rest of the town’s leaders, but, two Clinton appointees to the Indiana Appellate Court disagreed and the pedophile...

JEREMY GAINES NAMED VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS FOR MSNBCPublished: March 13, 2003SECAUCUS, N.J. -- March 13, 2003 -- Jeremy Gaines has been named Vice President, Communications for MSNBC, overseeing all corporate communications and programming publicity, it was announced today by Erik Sorenson, President, MSNBC. "Jeremy has been an instrumental part of MSNBC's growth for the past several years," said Sorenson. "As we continue to achieve growth, his communications expertise, and fully integrated knowledge of MSNBC's development, is perfectly suited to help guide the overall strategic direction of the network." Gaines has worked at MSNBC for nearly five years. Prior to his...

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 Santa Fe Driver Has Had Seven DWIs By Jeremy PawloskiJournal Northern Bureau     SANTA FE — The Santa Fe man accused of driving drunk when his truck hit a Colorado couple, dragging the woman more than five blocks and critically injuring her Saturday night, has seven prior drunken driving convictions.     According to state Motor Vehicle Division records, John P. Chavez's drunken driving record dates back to 1982.     Despite six prior DWI convictions, Chavez was prosecuted as a misdemeanor DWI offender after a DWI arrest in September 1999, according to the state DWI Citation Tracking...

State conflict-of-interest loophole for consultants Technology experts who were hired to address Y2K issues weren't asked to disclose potential problems Robert Salladay, Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau Saturday, May 11, 2002 Sacramento -- Because of a loophole in state law, the Davis administration never required the consultants it hired to avert a Y2K crisis to disclose potential conflicts of interest with technology companies. At least two of Davis' Y2K consultants left their government consulting jobs and were hired immediately by companies that had state technology contracts. One worked for a company that got $3.2 million in Y2K work, and another...

What do wolves, bears, red-legged frogs, whip-snakes, fairy shrimp, spotted owls, the California gnatcatchers, chinook, chum, coho, sockeye and steelhead, all have in common? Their well-being is protected by a religion funded by taxpayers. Think not? In 1994, Roger Kennedy, director of the National Park Service, declared that "wilderness is a religious concept" that should be a "part of our religious life." Many environmentalists have now adopted religious themes -- Judeo-Christian and animist -- including humanity's guilt and the need for salvation. For example: Environmentalism would only succeed when it had a religious foundation, wrote Lynn White in a 1967...