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The United States does not want to remove Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf from power as Washington fears that the South Asian country would fall into the hands of extremists, according to a former consultant to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. "If Musharraf falls, mullahs will take over," the ex-FBI consultant, Paul L Williams, said at a seminar in New York, adding, "However, he will be gone by next year." The half-day seminar was organised by Indian American Intellectuals Forum headed by Hindu leader Narain Kataria. According to Dr Williams, Muslim extremism presented a huge threat to humanity. "The threat...

Politically connected consultant gets 12 months The Associated Press November 29. 2005 4:52PM Raymond Reggie, a media consultant and son of a politically prominent former Louisiana judge, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in prison for bank fraud. Reggie pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of bank fraud and one count of bank fraud conspiracy involving a scheme to cheat banks in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier gave Reggie 12 months on each charge, and ordered the sentences to be served at the same time. Reggies also was ordered to serve three years...

WASHINGTON - The political committee of Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record), who is temporarily replacing Rep. Tom DeLay as House majority leader, has paid roughly $88,000 in fees since 2003 to a consultant under indictment in Texas with DeLay, according to federal records. Keri Ann Hayes, executive director of the Rely on Your Beliefs Fund, said the organization has been has been satisfied with the work done by Jim Ellis, but has not discussed whether he will be retained. "We haven't had that conversation," she said. So far, she added, Ellis' indictment had no impact on his work....

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is being paid $1 million a year for his role as a consultant to a company that publishes several fitness magazines, a deal critics say represents a serious conflict of interest for the former bodybuilding champion. The payments, revealed Wednesday in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are from Schwarzenegger's consulting job with American Media Operations, a subsidiary of the company that publishes Flex and Muscle & Fitness magazines, among others. Critics say the contract is a conflict of interest because Schwarzenegger's pay comes from the magazines' advertising revenue and the magazines...

I've been a lurker on Freep for a couple of years and love the site; I was hoping maybe some of you guys could give me some career advice. I'd like to get involved in the political game as a professional. I'm not a policy wonk; I'd like to be a behind the scenes image crafter/campaign strategy type guy. I am currently in IT, where I use my analytical/logical mind to solve complex problems. To me it's boring and I feel like I'm wasting my talents as someone with both a logical and creative 'outside the box' mindset. I’ve got...

The top shelf of an airport bookstall offers two aids to the male libido. One is sealed inside a plastic bag, the other is free to browse. One is about how to succeed in bed, the other about how to succeed in business. King Greed is as potent as King Sex. And the greed drive is now rampant inside British government. On Tuesday MPs have a golden opportunity to curb it. They can take one look at the government’s identity card bill and throw it out. The bill itself is an authoritarian twitch, the sort of measure police chiefs and...

Moderator : If this thread is posted in the wrong forum, please forgive me and feel free to relocate it.A jury consultant friend of mine (I am a trial attorney) is trying to learn who the jury consultanst were who were used by the defense and prosecution in the Michael Jackson case, and I promised I would try to help her find out.Does anyone have this information?

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A consumer advocacy group called on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fire his chief fund-raiser and campaign consultant Wednesday after learning he helped win a no-bid contract for one of his firms to promote the governor's trip to Japan last year. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said Marty Wilson should be fired for irreconcilable conflicts of interest because companies he represents could benefit from decisions by Schwarzenegger, who also pays him for advice. Documents disclosed to the foundation through a public records request revealed that Wilson helped one of his firms win a $212,000 contract for...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has assembled a team of political consultants the scale of which the Capitol has never seen, a network whose leading members also represent outside clients with significant interests of their own before the state. Of the $29 million the governor spent on six political campaigns he controlled last year, almost a third of it - $9 million - went to about 90 consultants who handled tasks for Schwarzenegger that included devising strategy, raising money, writing speeches, polling, preparing direct mail and advance planning. According to the governor's consultants, Schwarzenegger needs and relies on these political operatives to...

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Consultant helps LISD prepare for TAKS testing By RAY GLASS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Rhonda Tue emerged from a three-hour workshop on state-mandated curriculum, student expectations and assessment tests earlier this month as excited as a youngster on the first day of school. "I was blown away," said Tue, who teaches fifth- and sixth-grade reading at Guadalupe Elementary School. Tue was among about 700 Lubbock Independent School District teachers and administrators who, with consultant Margaret Kilgo, explored strategies to raise student scores on the annual Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test. Tue expects to see improvement after bench-mark testing in December. "I'm...

Historian for hire: $65 per hour, or $500 per day. After getting fed up with trying to find a tenure-track faculty position at a university, William C. Kashatus (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) has done what an independent-minded lawyer or CPA might do. He has gone into solo practice.If that sounds unusual, it's only that Kashatus, 44, of Paoli, is so bold about it. Many historians in recent years have given up on the world of academia and have sought to sell their skills in other ways.Want something researched or written on a historical topic? Kashatus will do it.Want a presentation...

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: April 9, 2004 Even by the standards of the revolving door that is sometimes the John Kerry campaign, the arrival and departure of Howard Wolfson – the high-powered political consultant from New York – had to be a record. Mr. Wolfson arrived at Mr. Kerry’s campaign headquarters on Monday to work as a communications consultant. He was on a train back to New York on Friday to return to his post at a political consulting firm. Mr. Wolfson said that his sudden departure from the campaign should not be taken as any...

Former Dole Official Pleads in Fraud Case 1 hour, 46 minutes ago By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A former consultant to a fund-raising committee for North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole's 2002 election campaign pleaded guilty Wednesday to mail fraud in an embezzlement scheme involving more than $174,000 of political contributions. Earl Allen Haywood, 40, entered the guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington. Haywood, an assistant treasurer to campaign committees that raised money for Dole, could face up to 20 years in prison when sentenced on May 26 and has agreed to make full...

Chelsea Clinton, 23, and Ian Klaus, 22, are back on, we hear. The former First Daughter was said to have wanted to cool things down with her Oxford University boyfriend. "She wanted some space," says a source. "But after a while, she realized how much he meant to her." The couple finished their final exams last week and have been celebrating ever since. We'll have to see whether Klaus, a Californian, follows her to New York, where she's due to take a $120,000-a-year consulting job at McKinsey & Co.

<p>SACRAMENTO - Richard Katz, one of Gov. Gray Davis' top advisers, has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees the past two years from clients that have had business before the governor's office on issues that Katz handles, state records show.</p>

<p>The former Fresno-area lawmaker provided a key Republican vote for last year's budget, which was two months overdue.</p> <p>A former Republican assemblyman who delivered key state budget votes for Democrats the last two years has surfaced as a paid horse racing consultant to the Assembly's top Democrat.</p>

Meet Maryam Massihi. The 21-year-old hooker recently stole political consultant Bob Beckel's heart--at least for a few hours, at $300 per. Then Massihi (who used the names Tiffany and Cindy professionally) and her cohorts allegedly tried to extort $50,000 in hush money from the Democratic heavyweight (he ran Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign). Beckel's recent run-in with Massihi & Co. is detailed in this search warrant affidavit filed August 23 in Alexandria, Virginia's Circuit Court. Beckel discovered his young consort via the Internet (Massihi's electronic come-on is below) and paid her by check, which proved helpful when cops began probing...

Records: Pair attempted to extort political analyst By LAUREN DUNN Journal staff writer A former host of CNN's ``Crossfire Sunday" and regular contributor to CBS ``This Morning" paid a Fairfax County woman to perform sex acts on him at his Maryland home and was then threatened that the incident would be made public unless he paid $50,000, according to Virginia court records. Bob Beckel, a political analyst who managed Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, paid a woman $300 per hour to visit his home on June 27 and 29. Days later, he found a note on his car and a...

'Gun sales consultant' seeks OK to run business in homeFriday, July 26, 2002By Myron KuklaThe Grand Rapids Press HOLLAND -- Holland resident Thomas Volkema is seeking city approval to operate a home-based consulting business. The sticking point: his consulting business involves the sale and distribution of firearms. For years Volkema has operated his business, "Tom's Pistol Parlor," out of his home in a quiet residential neighborhood. Now he is seeking a home-business designation from the city so he can have his gun sales license renewed by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. But questions about the number of...