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Iowa GOP Files Formal Complaint: Did AG Miller Violate Federal Law? Party also files public records request regarding campaign loans from Miller’s staff DES MOINES – Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn today filed a formal complaint regarding Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller’s potential violations of the federal Hatch Act, which makes it illegal for an official like Tom Miller to use his official authority or influence to interfere with or affect an election, and also forbids an official from coercing or ordering a state employee to contribute anything of value to his campaign. The federal law covers Miller...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/harrison.ind.htm JULY 9, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLACK MARKET TRAVEL AGENTS 38 DEFENDANTS INDICTED IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD LOCAL INVESTIGATION EXPOSES NATIONWIDE NETWORK THAT USED STOLEN IDENTITIES, CREDIT CARDS TO PURCHASE AIRLINE TICKETS KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme...

A longtime Jacksonville legislator sometimes on the receiving end of criticism for his own comments about Israeli foreign policy is defending journalism matriarch Helen Thomas against a firestorm that led to her abrupt retirement Monday. On a video made May 27 at the White House Jewish Heritage Celebration, Thomas is asked if she has any comments on Israel. “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” she said. When questioned, she suggested they go to Germany, Poland or the U.S.

Former Congressman Paul Findley (R-Jacksonville) told the Illinois Times that America is in the "darkest of times." JACKSONVILLE -- A former Republican congressman from central Illinois recently made Illinois news when he called President George W. Bush "the most dangerous guy in the world." Patrick Arden wrote in Springfield-based Illinois Times, a free alternative newsweekly, that 82 year old retired Congressman Paul Findley (R-Jacksonville) is unhappy with many of President Bush's foreign policy decisions. Findley is quoted as saying: Bush has been a disaster. I view him as, in a sense, the most dangerous guy in the world because he...